Mick Redman: rows

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Monday 7 November 2011

Getting single row results MySQL using PHP

I'm always using this code. Sometimes I know there should be/is only one record returned from my MySQL query. Especially if I have specified 1 result as in the query below. As long as I know the resulting column names, this is a very useful technique.

<?php

$query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM `users` WHERE `username` = '{$username}' LIMIT 1;");
$row = mysql_fetch_assoc($query);
echo 'Hello '.$row['firstname'];
?>

Wednesday 8 December 2010

Two equal row layout beginnings

I wanted to get a liquid layout with 2 rows taking up 50% of the browser hight each. I saw this type of layout on a site recently. It was a very minimalistic design. So I started to replicate it and do my own version. I then started to run into difficulties. I did some surfing and couldn't come up with the answer. So then I made a cup of tea, really put my brain into action, solved it, and now I'm sharing it with you.

See demo.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Two equal rows</title>

<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/css/reset/reset.css" />
<style type="text/css">
body
{
background:#FFFFFF;
}
#top
{
   height:auto;
   clear:both;
}
#bottom
{
   color:#FFFFFF;
   position:fixed;
   right:0;
   bottom:0;
   width:100%;
   _position: absolute;
   background:#FF0000;
   height:50%;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<section id="top">
Hello
</section>
<section id="bottom">
Hello
</section>
</body>
</html>

Wednesday 20 October 2010

Simple Grid Layout #2

I have extended the simple grid layout here to include rows of differing sizes within columns.

See demo.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Simple Grid Layout 2</title>
<style type="text/css">
body
{
margin:0 auto;
width:800px;
font-family:sans-serif;
}
.oneCol, .twoCol, .threeCol
{
float:left;
margin-left:20px;
}
.oneCol
{
width:780px;
}
.twoCol
{
width:380px;
}
.threeCol
{
width:247px;
}
.threeCol.first
{
width:246px;
}
.first
{
margin-left:0;
clear:left;
}
.row
{
background:#CCCCCC;
margin-bottom:20px;
height:20px;
}
.twoRowHeight
{
height:60px;
}
.threeRowHeight
{
height:100px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body><br />
<div class="twoCol first">
<div class="row">Column 1 of 2 columns. Row 1.
</div>
<div class="row">Column 1 of 2 columns. Row 2.
</div>
</div>
<div class="twoCol">
<div class="row">Column 2 of 2 columns. Row 1.
</div>
<div class="row">Column 2 of 2 columns. Row 2.
</div>
</div>
<div class="oneCol first">
<div class="row">Column 1 of 1 column. Row 1.
</div>
</div>
<div class="threeCol first">
<div class="row">Column 1 of 3 columns. Row 1.
</div>
<div class="row">Column 1 of 3 columns. Row 2.
</div>
<div class="row">Column 1 of 3 columns. Row 3.
</div>
</div>
<div class="threeCol">
<div class="row">Column 2 of 3 columns. Row 1.
</div>
<div class="row twoRowHeight">Column 2 of 3 columns. Row 2.
</div>
</div>
<div class="threeCol">
<div class="row threeRowHeight">Column 3 of 3 columns. Row 1.
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>

Wednesday 13 October 2010

Simple Grid Layout

I've avoided using grids in CSS layouts for the most part. Whenever, looked into them, it always seemed more prescriptive than it should be. Below is an example of a grid system using the div tag which I hope, seems relatively straight forward. All columns are floated to the left. The '.first' class clears left so that it moves to a new row. I made a slight adjustment to the three column row so that it would be pixel perfect with the others by using the first column 1 pixel shorter. This is something which you need to take into account with columns which don't divide to a whole number.

See demo.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Simple Grid Layout</title>
<style type="text/css">
body
{
margin:0 auto;
width:800px;
font-family:sans-serif;
}
.oneCol, .twoCol, .threeCol
{
float:left;
margin-left:20px;
margin-bottom:10px;
background:#CCCCCC;
}
.oneCol
{
width:780px;
}
.twoCol
{
width:380px;
}
.threeCol
{
width:247px;
}
.threeCol.first
{
width:246px;
}
.first
{
margin-left:0;
clear:left;
}
</style>
</head>
<body><br />
<div class="twoCol first">
Two col
</div>
<div class="twoCol">
Two col
</div>
<div class="oneCol first">
One col
</div>
<div class="threeCol first">
Three col
</div>
<div class="threeCol">
Three col
</div>
<div class="threeCol">
Three col
</div>
</body>
</html>