Hello,

I was wondering what the way of making a single vertical table show its contents with different(2) backgrounds. Let me give you an example. Let's say a sidebar "categories" table the first category background is white, the second - black, and this is repeated with every new added category. Hope you could help me. Thanks in advance and sorry for my bad english.

I'm not exactly sure what you mean, but if you're using a table you could just create separate rows and give each row a different coloured background - alternate them, if you know what I mean, so one row has a white background and the next has a grey background for example.

 

If you're not wanting to use different rows you could create a couple of styles in your style sheet and apply these to each paragraph so one would be

 

<p class="whitebg>content</p>

 

and the next would be

 

<p class="greybg">content</p>

 

does that make sense? Not sure if that is what you are after. Have you got any examples to show of sites out there doing what you want to achieve - might be good to put a link in to illustrate the effect you want.

Here is an enample of what i am trying to do http://mypropaganda.co.uk look at the Last.fm table. The contents of my table are are generated by a php file.

Does this help: http://www.geekpedia.com/prog_ttrls.php?id=10

 

That looks far too geeky for me - you've outdone me there Ben! Looks like that might do the trick though...

Well that might do the trick if i could understand it

Here is my php code

 $nextEventsSelect = myQ("
		SELECT *
		FROM `[x]events` 
		WHERE (
			(`display`='private' AND `user`='".me("id")."')
			OR
			(`display`='shared' AND (`user`='myFriendID' OR `user`='myFriendID2'))
			OR
			(`display`='public')
			OR
			(`display`='system')
		)
		AND `date` > '".date("U")."'
		ORDER BY `date` ASC
		LIMIT 5
	");

	/*
		Loop in the results, create the looping array
	*/
	$i=0;
	while ($nextEventRow = myF($nextEventsSelect)) {
		$nextEventsReplacementArray[$i]["event.title"] = strtrim($nextEventRow["title"], 30);
		$nextEventsReplacementArray[$i]["event.date"] = date($CONF["LOCALE_SHORT_DATE"], $nextEventRow["date"]);
		$nextEventsReplacementArray[$i]["event.id"] = $nextEventRow["id"];
		$nextEventsReplacementArray[$i]["event.location"] = $nextEventRow["location"];
		$nextEventsReplacementArray[$i]["event.body"] = $nextEventRow["body"];
		$nextEventsReplacementArray[$i]["event.username"] = user($nextEventRow["user"], "username");

		$i++;
	}

	$tpl -> Zone("nextEvent", "enabled");
		$tpl -> Loop("nextEvents", $nextEventsReplacementArray);

 

And here is the code in my .tpl file

<td><LOOP nextEvents>
					<div style="clear:both; padding-bottom:4px; padding-top:5px; border-bottom: solid 1px #E5E9EC;"><img src="system/image.php?file={event.mainpicture}&width=30" name="picture" hspace="2" border="0" align="left" id="picture" /> <a href="?L=users.profile&id={event.username}"> </a> <a href="?L=events.event&id={event.id}" class="style2">{event.title}...</a>
						<h5>Date: {event.date}</h5>
					</div>
				  </LOOP nextEvents></td>

I think I'm going to bow out of this one - far too complicated for me...

That's what I'm saying, and definitely way to early to be looking at the Matrix coded.