Style with css in php - php

Question

I'm new to this so please be gentle
I want to style for example $product_name, $author, $details.
I guess I could style the echos but in this case the only echo is
<?php
// Connect to the MySQL database
include "storescripts/connect_mysql.php";
// This block grabs the whole list for viewing
$dynamicList = "";
$sql = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM products ORDER BY id DESC");
$productCount = mysql_num_rows($sql); // count the output amount
if ($productCount > 0) {
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($sql)){
$id = $row["id"];
$product_name = $row["product_name"];
$author = $row["author"];
$details = $row["details"];
$link = $row["link"];
$isbn = $row["isbn"];
$isbn13 = $row["isbn13"];
$date_added = strftime("%b %d, %Y", strtotime($row["date_added"]));
$dynamicList .= '<table width="580" border="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td width="120"><img src="/inventory_images/' . $id . '.jpg" width="120" height="184" border="0" /></td>
<td width="456"><p>' . $product_name . '<p><br />
<p>' . $author . '</span><br />
<p>' . $details . '<br />
visa </td>
</tr>
</table>';
}
} else {
$dynamicList = "Database empty.";
}
mysql_close();
?>

Answer 1

Have you tried adding some CSS classes to your table cells?
$dynamicList .= '
<table width="580" border="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td width="120"><img src="/inventory_images/' . $id . '.jpg" width="120" height="184" border="0" /></td>
<td width="456"><p class="product_name">' . $product_name . '<p><br />
<p class="author">' . $author . '</span><br />
<p class="detail">' . $details . '<br />
visa </td>
</tr>
</table>';
In the head add some styles:
<style>
.product_name{color:red;}
.author{color:green;}
.detail{color:blue;}
</style>

Answer 2

Why not just add CSS rules to your stylesheet?
table tr td p {
// some styles
}

Answer 3

You can add a class with styles to the <p> elements that contain each value
<td width="456"><p class="product-name">' . $product_name . '</p>...

Answer 4

PHP is only a preprocssor and coughs up the code as the page loads and before any of the css of HTML kicks in so you can style it as normal

Answer 5

You can use style="" and class="" parameters on your <p> paragraph tags as well on the table cells <td>. You can also try to add for example styled <span> or <div> tags to your variables I suppose.
For example:
$product_name = "<span class='yourstyleclass'>$row['product_name']</span>";