PHP - how to put my Forum into a table column - php

Question

I have an original index.php file about Forum installed at a HOST.
I need to make a table with two columns: one column for Ads and another column for the Forum.
When I use directly:
<?php
echo "<table>";
echo "<tr>";
echo "<td width='20%'>";
$dir = 'images/';
if ($opendir = opendir($dir))
{
$file = 'lenovo-a1000.jpg';
$type = 'image/jpeg';
echo "<img src='$dir/$file' width='240' height='401'";
}
echo "</td>";
echo "<td width='80%'>";
........
........ original code of the Forum;
........
echo "</td>";
echo "</tr>";
echo "</table>";
?>
it raises error messages, but the table appears;
Then to avoid error messages I decided to make two functions:
<?php
function tbl_open()
{
echo "<table>";
echo "<tr>";
echo "<td width='20%'>";
$dir = 'images/';
if ($opendir = opendir($dir))
{
$file = 'lenovo-a1000.jpg';
$type = 'image/jpeg';
echo "<img src='$dir/$file' width='240' height='401'";
}
echo "</td>";
echo "<td width='80%'>";
}
........
........ original code of the Forum;
........
function tbl_close()
{
echo "</td>";
echo "</tr>";
echo "</table>";
}
?>
Now there is not error messages, but the table does not appear.
How to solve my Problem ?

Answer 1

You dont need to echo HTML in PHP. Simply close the PHP tag, write yout HTML and open the PHP tag again when you want it again. EX:
<table>
<tr>
<td width='20%'>
<?php
$dir = 'images/';
if ($opendir = opendir($dir))
{
$file = 'lenovo-a1000.jpg';
$type = 'image/jpeg'; ?>
<img src='<?php echo $dir . $file ?>' width='240' height='401' />
<?php } ?>
</td>
<td width='80%'>
<?php
........
........ original code of the Forum;
........
?>
</td>
</tr>
</table>

Answer 2

The solution is not to make a table into a forum's index.php, because this will raise warnings and errors about header().
My opinion now is the solution is to have a previous .php file which to start two iframes vertically suited FRAMES, for example (iframe width=80%) for the Forum and (iframe width=20%) for ads. I tested this - it works without any warnings and without any errors.