PHP - Create a Schedule table in relation to time - php

Question

I'm doing a school project and I have to create a schedule from an array. I already sorted the array by day & time. I know how to create a simple table and insert the data - but I wanted to make a more defined table in relation to time:
The array for Monday looks like this:
Array ( [0] => Array ( [courseID] => comp275 [lectureID] => gg [day] => monday [stime] => 12:15 [etime] => 15:16 [term] => winter [year] => 2014 ) [1] => Array ( [courseID] => comp345 [lectureID] => ss [day] => monday [stime] => 18:20 [etime] => 20:30 [term] => winter [year] => 2014 ) )
I want the table to be like this for column "Monday"
table type http://4.ii.gl/mtHVQN.png
This is my code at the moment (its a bit broken but i haven't figured out how to do what i really want yet.)
<table>
<tr>
<th>Monday</th>
<th>Tuesday</th>
<th>Wednesday</th>
<th>Thursday</th>
<th>Friday</th>
</tr>
<?php getMonday($Array); ?>
</table>
Function :
foreach($Array as $MA)
{
echo
"<tr class='success'><td>".
"Start-Time :".$MA["stime"]." "
."<br><br>".
"Course :".$MA["courseID"]." "
."<br><br>".
"End-Time :".$MA["etime"]." "
."</td></tr>";
}
Gives me this :
table type2 http://2.ii.gl/Q1Dx-x.png

Answer 1

Instead of using cells in your day colum, you could create divs for each class and change the height based off the time. For example -
$curr_time = strtotime('08:00'); //beginning of the day
foreach($Array as $MA) {
// create a blank div if it does not equal $curr_time
if(strtotime($MA['stime']) != $curr_time){
$empty_size = // get size for difference between $MA['stime'] and $curr_time
echo "<div style='height:{$empty_size}px;'></div>";
}
// create the div for the class time
$div_size = // get size for difference between $MA['etime'] and $MA['stime']
echo "<div class='success' style='height:{$div_size}px;'>".
// your data
"Start-Time :".$MA["stime"]." "
."<br><br>".
"Course :".$MA["courseID"]." "
."<br><br>".
"End-Time :".$MA["etime"].
// end of your data
"</div>";
// change the $curr_time to $MA['etime']
$curr_time = strtotime($MA['etime']) ;
}
since this is a school project, I won't give you all the code / full working example, just this sample code/idea. You would need to find a way to determine the height of the divs based off the difference in time. Hopefully this helps.