How do I style my text inside an echo? - php

Question

Part of the code is
while ($row = mysqli_fetch_assoc($result))
{
echo "$row[firstname] $row[lastname]";
echo "<hr>";
echo "<strong>Date Referred:</strong>     $row[cf_831]";
echo "<br/>";
echo "<strong>Date Today:</strong>       $today";
echo "<br/>";
}
How do I style this part for example?
"$row[firstname] $row[lastname]"

Answer 1

You can try
echo '<p class="mystyle">' . $row['firstname'] . " " . $row['lastname'] . '</p>';
Then add CSS
.mystyle {
}

Answer 2

Addition to Sidsec9's answer: if you are afraid of stylesheets, you can also consider:
echo '<p style="color: red; font-size: 10pt;">' . $row['firstname'] . " " . $row['lastname'] . '</p>';
You could also use styles to get rid of  , for example using margin-right or padding-right properties.

Answer 3

echo '<p id="name"> '. $row[firstname] $row[lastname] .'</p>';
Css you only using for name alone use id else use class and use the single css for all values.
#name
{
color: red;
}

Answer 4

You can wrap it in a class, and fix it with a stylesheet. I also changed the echo, you're allowed to close the PHP tag, do some HTML and then open PHP again.
<?=$variable?> is short echo, it is the same as <?php echo $variable; ?>.
while ($row = mysqli_fetch_assoc($result)){
?>
<span class="Example"><?=$row[firstname].' '.$row[lastname]?></span>
<hr>
<strong>Date Referred:</strong>     <?=$row[cf_831]?>
<br/>
<strong>Date Today:</strong>       <?=$today?>
<br/>
<?php
}
A better method would be making and html file, say example.com, and place <!-- FIRSTNAME -->,<!-- LASTNAME --> AND <!-- TODAY --> instead of the variables. Then, using php:
$totalResult = "";
$template_one = file_get_contents("example.html");
while ($row = mysqli_fetch_assoc($result)){
$item = $template_one;
$item = str_replace("<!-- FIRSTNAME -->", $row['firstname'], $item);
$item = str_replace("<!-- LASTNAME -->", $row['lastname'], $item);
$totalResult.= $item; // add to totel result
)
// $today doesnt change in the loop, do it once after the loop is done:
$totalResult = str_replace("<!-- TODAY -->", $today, $totalResult);
echo $totalResult; // Now you have the result in a pretty variable