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[David Mintz]

On Fri, 14 Apr 2006, Brian Kaney wrote:

> And the markup is not really semanticly sound.  I hate mixing markup
> with code, but you may want to consider:
>
> while($row = mysql_fetch_array($category)) {
>      echo '<tr><td><label for="'
>          . htmlspecialchars($row['expenses_cat_number'])
>          . '">'
>          . htmlspecialchars($row['expenses_cat_desc'])
>          . '</label>'
>          . '</td><td><input type="text" name="expense_cat'
>          . htmlspecialchars($row['expenses_cat_number'])
>          . '" id="'
>          . htmlspecialchars($row['expenses_cat_number'])
>          . '" value="" /></td></tr>' . "\n";
> }
>
>
> Or even using a definition list, if you want to be super accessible:
>[...]


It's all an eyesore to me. Not to start a religious debate, but this is
almost an argument for things like Smarty

{section loop=$rows name=i}
<tr>
    <td>{$rows[i].expenses_cat_number|escape}</td>
    <td>{$rows[i].expenses_cat_desc|escape}</td>
    <!--  etc -->
</tr>
{/section}

or perhaps an argument for dropping into good old HTML mode interpersed
with the "friendly" PHP syntax

while($row = mysql_fetch_array($category)) : ?>
<tr>
  <td><?= htmlspecialchars($row['expenses_cat_number']?></td>
  <td><?= htmlspecialchars($row['expenses_cat_desc']?></td>
  <!--  etc -->
</tr>
<?php endwhile; ?>

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David Mintz
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