staypuftman

Ha- that did it. Awesome - so easy. I feel kinda dumb now but oh well - its not the first time. Basically, php (or asp, jsp) can dynamically grab different elements for a website and throw them altogether. In my site for example, I have the HTML head and the titlebar in one php block and I have the body in another php block and the footer is in yet another block. Each one of the pages you see on a dynamic site is really a mashup of these blocks. When all the blocks come together, they make a functional webpage. In the example we were working with, that piece of code I showed you was part of this larger page: <?php //included code for page header include ('/home/hplmt/public_html/header.inc.php'); ?> <div id="content"> <script type="text/javascript" language="javascript" src="http://www.trumba.com/k.aspx?calendar=upcoming_telepresence_events"></script> </div> <?php //included code for page footer include ('/home/hplmt/public_html/footer.inc.php'); ?> Youll notice I 'call' a php header block, code the middle of the page and then call a php footer block - when a browser reads the page it will all read as one piece. This way, I dont have to code the damn header and footer on each page i create (because they are the same on every page anyway). Getting back to your question of how the colums are created - the top block in my system also references a stylesheet (CSS2). This stylesheet sets the actual containers for each column on the site. The code in the stylesheet that references how the page will look is here: /***********************************************/ /* Layout Divs */ /***********************************************/ #container{ width: 880px; } #masthead{ padding: 5px 0px 0px 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid #cccccc; width: 100%; } #navBar{ float: left; width: 190px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: #eeeeee; border-left: 1px solid #cccccc; border-bottom: 1px solid #cccccc; } #content{ float: left; width: 485px; border-left: 1px solid #cccccc; border-right: 1px solid #cccccc; padding-top: 15px; } #headlines{ float: left; width: 190px; padding-right: 15px; border-right: 1px solid #cccccc; border-bottom: 1px solid #cccccc; } You'll notice I have a 'container' tag set at '880px' - that means the entire site will sit inside of an 880px wide space. So way up in the first PHP block I have, I call a <div> (short for division) that will be open in my entire site - ensuring all content sits inside of the 880px width I have defined. The div will look like <div id="container"> I then have three other div containers - navbar, content and headlines. Notice each one has its own width. All I do is sequencially open each div up underneath the container div like this: <div id="navbar"> Then you close the navbar div and open another one (like content) ON THE SAME LEVEL as navbar. The system will line up all the divs as similar block-line elements - putting all three (navbar, content and headlines) next to each other INSIDE of the container div. The container acts like a table and the three other divs act like columns in the old HTML table/column/row system. At the end of the code in my footer php block I close the container div, just like you would close a table. When a browser interprets all this code, it will only see one giant page. Hope this helps you understand how it works!

I need to adjust the sizes of the these spuds so that they fit into the existing structure of my website - is this possible? I use CSS-based design on my website and every other element I use on my website conforms to the structure I have created. My site is written in PHP but its not all that complicated really - all the PHP does is it dynamically 'grabs' a set width header (which includes the left column of our page) sticks the main page in the middle and closes the page with a set width right column and footer. The code looks like this: <?php //included code for page header include ('/home/hplmt/public_html/header.inc.php'); ?> <div class="content"> <script type="text/javascript" language="javascript" src="https://www.trumba.com/k.aspx?calendar=upcoming_telepresence_events"></script> </div> <?php //included code for page footer include ('/home/hplmt/public_html/footer.inc.php'); ?> The php files being referenced work everywhere else so I doubt they are the problem - below is the CSS code for the center content block of my site - is that the problem? That's the only style there is being applied to the page. #content{ float: left; width: 485px; border-left: 1px solid #cccccc; border-right: 1px solid #cccccc; padding-top: 15px; }