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Posted by Matthew on 11/14/07 16:21
The Natural Philosopher emailed this:
> Matthew wrote:
>> Sorry if this is a newbie question I can't seem to find the answer
>> with web searches, prob. wrong search query but can't get it right.
>>
>> My PHP file does some database processing, of various kinds, and
>> displays some of the returned data in html. When the PHP file is at
>> the end of its processing two final functions are called, the FIRST
>> function called makes a SQL query and calls another function to
>> display the returned rows in an html table. The SECOND function called
>> just displays the copyright info. line and html menu that is always at
>> the bottom of the site's webpages. However when testing the file, I've
>> noticed that the html table created by the FIRST function call is
>> displayed below the info. line and html menu which are the result of
>> the SECOND function call. This is the wrong way around and, from the
>> site's aesthetic point of view, unacceptable.
>>
>> I'm not really sure why this is happening, or how I stop it and get
>> the PHP to display the html in the order which I want. Any help would
>> be most welcome. Thanks to all you PHPers. Matthew.
>
> Chances are this is not a PHP problem at all. Is an HTML bug in your
> display.
>
> I've done this so many times..incomplete table rows, odd format commands
> that confuse the browser.
>
> If you have firefox, set the error console on and load the page. Grosser
> errors will show up in that, also 'view page source' will confirm if the
> PHP is spitting them out in the correct order.
>
> No magic fixes. Just tedious poring over output and tag matching..
Many, many, thanks. You're absolutely right. Viewing the source shows the
html is in the correct order (quite why I didn't check this earlier is
beyond me), so there must be errors in my html. Predicted tedious time,
coming up...
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