css formatting in php - php

Question

I have a css question.
I have the following php code which displays a name.
while ($db_field = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) {
print $db_field['ship_name'] . "<BR>";
I'm trying to add some text style to it but I'm not that good in css and I'm somehow lost.
I'm trying to do something like <t> $db_field['ship_name'].<t/> but it gives me an error.

Answer 1

judging by your comment, probably you want
print "<span class='t'>".$db_field['ship_name']."</span><BR>";
and for your CSS file define
.t { font-size: 50pt; color:black; text-shadow: 0 1px 2px white; }

Answer 2

There are 2 ways of doing this. Either you embed html in PHP or write separate HTML snippet. I will show you the both ways :
The first one is already explained above in the answer by sinclairchase.
echo "<td>" . $db_field['ship_name'] . "</td>";
The other way is :
<?php while ($db_field = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) {
?>
<td>
<?php print $db_field['ship_name'] . "<BR>"; ?>
</td>
<?php } ?>
I dont unsderstand why you write t in question it would be td.

Answer 3

This will echo out the data into a span tag:
echo "<span>" . $db_field['ship_name'] . "</span>";
To add a css class:
echo "<span class=\"class_name\">" . $db_field['ship_name'] . "</span>";
Then in your css file:
span.class_name { font-size:24px; color:#666; }