I am looking for a way to put a "bullet" next to an item if it exist. For instance i have an area for 6 specs for products, but i want a bullet to show up next to the specs when they are listed. I don't want six bullets and only 3 of them have words next to them. Is there a way to make a code to show a bullet only if there is text there?

Thanks

Have you looked at using an if conditional statement on whether you have stuff for the specific bullet item and then applying a CSS style based on whether information exists or not?

I dont fully understnd the question your asking but may have read something recently that can help

From the little I understnad Switch statements with CSS could do this (the CSS should let you set a left border to the text with text indent or bullet point)
http://www.tizag.com/phpT/switch.php

If you output the text in a list then the bullet points should be there automatically

Hope this helps - sorry if it doesn't

I guess your returning each as a variable from mysql. Then you would want something like

PHP Code:

if ($variable != 0) {
    print [html code here]
}

if ($variable2  != 0)) {
    print [html code here]
} 


Originally Posted by joder

I guess your returning each as a variable from mysql. Then you would want something like

PHP Code:

if ($variable != 0) {
    print [html code here]
}

if ($variable2  != 0)) {
    print [html code here]
} 


you could also do this with arrays - put all the sql data into an array and if there is no data in that entry then ignore it

PHP Code:


for ($number = 1; $number < 11; $number++)
{ 
  if { ($array[$number] != 0) {
    echo [html code here]
}
} 


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but thats getting a bit anal, and i dont even know if you can nest an if statement inside a for loop and pass variables =|

Maybe I'm over simplifying the problem here, but why, exactly, are you not simply creating an unordered list, and each item will organiclly have a bullet next to it, regardless if there is 6, 60, or 6,000?

Cory - I think the problem is that he wants some list items to have a bullet next to it and others to not have a bullet, or something like that. I'm not sure if he is actually creating a list or not, quite frankly.