Displaying attendance on a web page

[tshot]

I wish to display attendance in a table where the dates are horizontally on top and Names verticalyy on left. Sof far is simple. But what i am not able to do is (for printing purposes) mark Sundays or Holidays so that the word is shown across the column. For display purposes, i am showing in different colour. We have only a b/w printer and greying it would wate a lot of ink

How should i put this in html./php/javascript This would be for 30 or 31 days to be fit in one A4 page

regds and thanks in advance

[DeveloperBill]

This is not an especially elegant solution, but you could do it with PHP code to build an HTML table. First build the header row with the days. Then code a couple of loops, the outer loop for the rows in the table (one for each name), and the inner loop for the days, creating one <td> cell for each attendee containing "P" or "A" or whatever you desire.

I won't give you all the code, but when the day is Sunday or a Holiday, you will need to create only one <td> at the first attendee row, like this:

echo '<td rowspan="' . $cntnames . '">';
echo 'S<br />U<br />N<br />D<br />A<br />Y</td>';

This should display "SUNDAY" vertically, filling the whole column.

[tshot]

Thanks for the reply.

I could not think of a better way than this for presenting the attendance for the entire month.

As you have pointed out that this is an inelegant solution then how can i make it more elegant