[TinnyFusion]

Hi all, I have a guestbook script I have done in php that stores all data in a .TXT document, is there any way to format this text after reading/displaying it using CSS?

Here is a bit of my code if it helps:

PHP Code:

<?

$file=fopen("guestbook.txt", "r");

$size=filesize("guestbook.txt");

$contents=fread($file, $size);

$contents=nl2br($contents);

echo "Guestbook is currently $size bytes";

?>

For instance I would like to format the text "Guestbook is currently $size bytes" by using something like:

Code:

style="font-size: 12px"

or

Code:

<font face="Arial" size="2">Guestbook is currently $size bytes</font>

Regards, TinnyFusion

[NeverMind]

you just posted it
just make it like this :

PHP Code:

echo"<font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">Guestbook is currently $size bytes</font>"; 

or use single quote :

PHP Code:

echo'<font face="Arial" size="2">Guestbook is currently '.$size bytes.'</font>'; 

or just use the Style you want in the HTML header and just print everything in plain text and it will be 'styled' the way you want ..
I am using the header style method in my scripts and it works fine ..

[Dabrowski]

NeverMind,

What's the deal with using dots with variables in the echo statement? I've seen it around, but I can't really find out the answer. I know that echo with single quotes works as long as there are no variables, and I know that you're supposed to use double quotes when there are variables. But everything else confuses me.

Thanks.
Ben

[NeverMind]

using single quotes is faster because PHP will not bother looking for a variable to parse..
see the example:

PHP Code:

$name = 'NeverMind';

echo 'My name is $name.';

//this will produce : My name is $name.



echo "My name is $name";

//this will produce : My name is NeverMind 

the dot is to chain whats before it and after it together !
it's like the + in JavaScript !
example:
sometimes you want to have a fixed dir name but the file name is a variable provided via a form to include files from the dir 'articles' so this how it can be done:

PHP Code:

include_once('articles/' . $filename); 

altho these lines are almost useless but it helps in explaning..

hope that was clear