PHP question..

[TheMagicM]

I'm reading a database and retrieving info.. one piece of info is a name of a file, a picture if you may.

so in html its title

I'm storing the filename in a variable in php called $picture and I will build the url (static url, only filename changes).

How would I display this as a link in PHP?

[TheMagicM]

doh!  I knew it had to be simple.. I was trying to embed html into PHP and tha wouldnt work.. but php in html... (and I'm already doing that in the submit button..geez.. its getting late)  ... Thanks!!

[TheMagicM]

print(" .... ");

ok, that worked..

now to format my output.. LOL... thanks for the help..

[TheMagicM]

yea I did that but its not formatting it like I want.. lets say for example I have a list of magazines by year, month, publisher etc.. well the months are not the same length. so I want to allocate the same amount of space for each month that way it aligns.. I know i can do str_len and figure it out and pad it but I was wondering if there was a simpler way with HTML to format output.. if no I'll do it the longer way in PHP.

[TheMagicM]

thats what I was doing and it wasnt working..

just found the bug.. I was building a new table for each record read in..instead of defining it before my loop..

[TheMagicM]

good suggestion!  that will probably fix the bug I cannot seem to find.