[snip] There's a fundamental problem with trying to slice text into resizable web pages the same way it's sliced on paper. Paper pages work because they're set in a fixed font size. When you change the ratio of font size to column width, the places where lines of text wrap changes. Because of the varying lengths of words, strings of words spill over to the next line in non-linear rates. Unless you use a fixed font size (boo, hiss) or you change the font size and the column width at exactly the same rate by sizing your layout in ems, your text columns are going to change in height (line-count) with font resizing. More .... [/snip] Paul states here more eloquently what I hinted at in my response in terms liquid layouts, et. al. You must quit thinking of web pages in print pages terms, a concept which may be more difficult than arrays. Also, Jochem made a statement about allowing authors to determine logical page breaks in their tomes, and he is correct. You'll see that articles on Evolt, A List Apart, SitePoint and others are broken logically (almost in chapters). This would be preferred. I did use an array and sessions in my example because I want to save round trips to the database. Using Jochem's suggestion with an HTML comment you can achieve the same thing by placing the chunks of the article between the comments into session variables. The wheel here has been created many times and many ways. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
