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Re: php+html mixup in displaying multidimensional array in html tables

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On 1/28/2012 2:28 PM, Denis McMahon wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Jan 2012 12:24:14 +0100, John wrote:
>
>> I am new to this problem and shall be very grateful for any hint on how
>> to a´void an unreadable code-salad, when trying to display a
>> bidimensional array (thus with two indexes) on a html table. I refer to
>> the continuous shifting between<?php and<html>  every two lines.
>>
>> Is there a method which is 'quick an easy' to do the job ?
>
> You mean something like:
>
> echo "<table>\n";
> foreach ($arr as $line) {
> echo "<tr>\n";
> foreach ($line as $cell) {
> echo "<td>$cell</td>\n";
> }
> echo "</tr>\n";
> }
> echo "</table>\n";
>
> This is a very crude solution, makes several assumptions, and has no
> testing of or handling for unexpected conditions. Depending on the data
> you feed it, it may crash or generate invalid markup, but under some
> conditions it might instead generate a valid table.
>
> The wonders of usenet will probably screw the formatting too. I can't do
> much about that.
>
> Rgds
>
> Denis McMahon

What is crude about it?  What assumptions (other than the data does not 
need to be run though htmlentities() or htmlspecialchars(), which is 
quite easy to do)?

And what would crash?

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php+html mixup in displaying multidimensional array in html tables John <John@agdp.de> - 2012-01-28 12:24 +0100
  Re: php+html mixup in displaying multidimensional array in html tables Luuk <Luuk@invalid.lan> - 2012-01-28 13:03 +0100
  Re: php+html mixup in displaying multidimensional array in html tables crankypuss <no@email.thanks> - 2012-01-28 05:07 -0700
  Re: php+html mixup in displaying multidimensional array in html tables Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2012-01-28 19:28 +0000
    Re: php+html mixup in displaying multidimensional array in html tables Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2012-01-28 15:14 -0500
      Re: php+html mixup in displaying multidimensional array in html tables Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2012-01-29 19:58 +0000
        Re: php+html mixup in displaying multidimensional array in html tables Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2012-01-29 15:09 -0500
          Re: php+html mixup in displaying multidimensional array in html tables Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2012-01-29 22:10 +0000
            Re: php+html mixup in displaying multidimensional array in html tables Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2012-01-29 17:41 -0500
    Re: php+html mixup in displaying multidimensional array in html tables Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-01-28 22:01 +0100
      Re: php+html mixup in displaying multidimensional array in html tables Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2012-01-28 17:37 -0500
      Re: php+html mixup in displaying multidimensional array in html tables Michael Fesser <netizen@gmx.de> - 2012-01-29 00:02 +0100
        Re: php+html mixup in displaying multidimensional array in html tables The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2012-01-28 23:08 +0000
  Re: php+html mixup in displaying multidimensional array in html tables Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-01-28 21:43 +0100
  Re: php+html mixup in displaying multidimensional array in html tables "M. Strobel" <sorry_no_mail_here@nowhere.dee> - 2012-01-29 00:50 +0100
    Re: php+html mixup in displaying multidimensional array in html tables r.mariotti@fdcx.net - 2012-01-29 06:55 -0500
      Re: php+html mixup in displaying multidimensional array in html tables Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-01-29 15:43 +0100
        Re: php+html mixup in displaying multidimensional array in html tables Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2012-01-29 10:44 -0500
          Re: php+html mixup in displaying multidimensional array in html tables Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-01-29 17:15 +0100
            Re: php+html mixup in displaying multidimensional array in html tables Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2012-01-29 11:45 -0500
              Re: php+html mixup in displaying multidimensional array in html tables Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-01-29 18:41 +0100
                Re: php+html mixup in displaying multidimensional array in html tables Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2012-01-29 13:49 -0500
                Re: php+html mixup in displaying multidimensional array in html tables Scott Johnson <noonehome@chalupasworld.com> - 2012-01-30 06:04 -0800
                Re: php+html mixup in displaying multidimensional array in html tables Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-01-30 16:03 +0100
        Re: php+html mixup in displaying multidimensional array in html tables Scott Johnson <noonehome@chalupasworld.com> - 2012-01-30 05:51 -0800
          Re: php+html mixup in displaying multidimensional array in html tables Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-01-30 16:27 +0100

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