PHP - Displaying data in a Table Row

Question

I am developing a forum, I have a text area where users input their comment, and I am displaying it in a table row. But I do find that the data is not fully displayed , I mean while creating a post if I enter 500 characters, the table row displays only limited characters restricted to the width of the row. Is there any way to display the data entirely in row?

 Here is the code that displays the message;refer to line - echo "<td>" .    
//$row['usermessage'] . "</td>";


echo "<table class='zebra'>
<thead>
<tr>`enter code here`
<th> Original Message by " . $row['username'] . " posted at " .     
$row['cqatime'] . " IST</th>
</tr>
</thead>";              
echo "<tbody>";
echo "<tr>";
echo "<td>" . $row['usermessage'] . "</td>";
echo "</tr>";       
echo "</tbody>";
echo "</table>";

There is no error, I mean that the data is not displayed fully in a table row — fishspy
– fishspy, Commented Sep 21, 2013 at 4:51
can you post your class=zebra CSS so that we can know whats happening.. — shivgre
– shivgre, Commented Sep 21, 2013 at 6:08

Iznogood · Accepted Answer · 2013-09-21 04:57:14Z

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Use h1-4 and p. Ex:

<h1>From: <?php echo $row['username'] ?></h1>
<p><?php echo $row['usermessage']?></p>

P is for paragraphs of text. Perfect if its a message like that. No need for a table. Tables are to display tabular data. Like a products list or something like that.

Also, and this is personal, I never output html like you did. I prefer the way I posted.

edit: since you are getting errors I'll do it your way.

echo '<h1>From: ' .  $row['username'] . '</h1>';
echo '<p>' . $row['usermessage'] . '</p>';

edited Sep 21, 2013 at 4:57

answered Sep 21, 2013 at 4:51

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fishspy Over a year ago

Can you please edit the code that I have shown..? While I try to add Hi and P tags it shows an error..

Iznogood Over a year ago

There you go @fishspy

fishspy Over a year ago

to display it in a table, this code has to be inside a TR and it still can't display all the data ; echo '<h1>From: ' . $row['username'] . '</h1>'; echo '<p>' . $row['usermessage'] . '</p>';

fishspy Over a year ago

echo "<table class='zebra'> <thead> <tr> <th> Original Message by " . $row['username'] . " posted at " . $row['cqatime'] . " IST</th> </tr> </thead>"; echo "<tbody>"; echo "<tr>"; echo "<td>"; echo '<p>' . $row['usermessage'] . '</p>'; echo "</td>"; echo "</tr>"; echo "</tbody>"; echo "</table>";

anupam · Accepted Answer · 2013-09-21 06:44:55Z

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TD should show the full message unless the width of the TD is controlled by CSS, e.g. overflow:hidden?

EDIT:

Try:

echo "<td style=\"overflow: visible\">" . $row['usermessage'] . "</td>";

edited Sep 21, 2013 at 6:44

answered Sep 21, 2013 at 4:53

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fishspy Over a year ago

I don't see any overflow: hidden in css file .. donno why TD is not displaying

anupam Over a year ago

Are you using any JavaScript/jQuery plugin to handle the table with class="zebra". If so, it must be controlling the display.

fishspy Over a year ago

I tried this, still no change - echo "<td style=\"overflow: visible\">" . $row['usermessage'] . "</td>";

chirag ode · Accepted Answer · 2013-09-21 05:19:06Z

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<?php
echo "<table class='zebra'>
<tr>`enter code here`
<th> Original Message by ".$row['username']." posted at ".$row['cqatime']." IST</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>".$row['usermessage']."</td>
</tr>
</table>"; ?>

answered Sep 21, 2013 at 5:19

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chirag ode Over a year ago

how are you fetching the records?

shivgre · Accepted Answer · 2013-09-21 05:56:34Z

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You are using a class='zebra' in your table. That class is controlling the behavior of your table data display.

Change the CSS in that class and remove overflow: hidden;

answered Sep 21, 2013 at 5:56

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fishspy Over a year ago

I don't see any overflow: hidden in css file;

shivgre Over a year ago

@fishspy 1st check if the $row['usermessage'] contains the full data that you want to display . try printing it separately and put die just after that print to check whats being printed.

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