php code help to "center" text for a block

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I have a "Today in History" block in use that I would like to use as a center block, but the text is currently formatted to the left. It pulls sql data from the ephemerids section of my db, so I'm not quite sure which part of the code to manipulate/change.

if (eregi("block-Today_in_History.php",$PHP_SELF)) {
    Header("Location: index.php");
    die();
}

// Number of items to retrieve
$getnum = "10";
// Scroll Direction (up,down)
$scroll_direction = "up";
// Scroll Height
$scroll_height = 200;
// Scroll Delay
$scroll_delay = 100;
// Scroll Amount
$scroll_amount = 2;

global $prefix, $db, $querylang;

$today = getdate();
$eday = $today[mday];
$emonth = $today[mon];
$eyear = $today[year];
$lmonth = $today[month];
$title = ""._EPHEMERIDS."";
$output_buffer .= "<b>Today is $lmonth $eday, $eyear</b><br><HR noshade SIZE=3 width=\"90%\">";
$sql = "SELECT yid, content FROM ".$prefix."_ephem WHERE did='$eday' AND mid='$emonth' $querylang ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT $getnum";
$result = $db->sql_query($sql);
while ($row = $db->sql_fetchrow($result)) {
      $content_list[$row[yid]] = "$row[content]";
}
ksort($content_list);
while (list($yr, $con) = each($content_list)) {
    if ($cnt == 1) {
   $boxstuff .= "<br><br>";
    }
    $output_buffer .= "<b>$yr:</b> <BR>$con";
    $output_buffer .= "<br><HR noshade SIZE=3 width=\"90%\">";
    $cnt = 1;
}
$content = "";
$content .= "<TABLE width=\"100%\">";
$content .= "<TR><TD>";
$content .= "<MARQUEE behavior=\"scroll\" height=\"$scroll_height\" direction=\"$scroll_direction\" scrollamount= \"$scroll_amount\" scrolldelay=\"$scroll_delay\" onmouseover='this.stop()' onmouseout='this.start()'>".$output_buffer."</MARQUEE>";
$content .= "</TD></TR>";
$content .= "</TABLE>";
?>


I would like to get the scrolling text to be centered instead of justified to the left...which I assume is the default. I'm sure there is an easy fix for this but all ive done so far is hose the block. tia for any suggestions


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Try changing this line

$content .= "<TR><TD>";


To this line

$content .= "<TR><TD align='center'>";




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Ok - I tried that with no luck icon_sad.gif

Would adding code to the marquee behavior line work?



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Thats strange try changing this line also

$content .= "<TABLE width=\"100%\">";


to

$content .= "<TABLE width=\"100%\" align =\"center\">";




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tried that as well without any luck icon_sad.gif

here is what the block currently looks like:

<?php

/********************************************************************/
/* Today in History Block                                           */ 
/* ===========================                                      */                                     
/* By Greg Schoper                                                  */
/* http://nuke.schoper.net                                          */
/*                                                                  */
/* Based on code from block-ephemerids.php                          */
/* Copyright (c) 2002 by Francisco Burzi                            */
/* http://phpnuke.org                                               */
/*                                                                  */
/* This program is free software. You can redistribute it and/or    */
/* modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as   */
/* published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of   */
/* the License.                                                     */
/********************************************************************/

if (eregi("block-Today_in_History.php",$PHP_SELF)) {
    Header("Location: index.php");
    die();
}

// Number of items to retrieve
$getnum = "10";
// Scroll Direction (up,down)
$scroll_direction = "up";
// Scroll Height
$scroll_height = 100;
// Scroll Delay
$scroll_delay = 100;
// Scroll Amount
$scroll_amount = 2;

global $prefix, $db, $querylang;

$today = getdate();
$eday = $today[mday];
$emonth = $today[mon];
$eyear = $today[year];
$lmonth = $today[month];
$title = ""._EPHEMERIDS."";
$output_buffer .= "<b>Today is $lmonth $eday, $eyear</b><br><HR noshade SIZE=3 width=\"90%\">";
$sql = "SELECT yid, content FROM ".$prefix."_ephem WHERE did='$eday' AND mid='$emonth' $querylang ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT $getnum";
$result = $db->sql_query($sql);
while ($row = $db->sql_fetchrow($result)) {
      $content_list[$row[yid]] = "$row[content]";
}
ksort($content_list);
while (list($yr, $con) = each($content_list)) {
    if ($cnt == 1) {
   $boxstuff .= "<br><br>";
    }
    $output_buffer .= "<b>$yr:</b> <BR>$con";
    $output_buffer .= "<br><HR noshade SIZE=3 width=\"90%\">";
    $cnt = 1;
}
$content = "";
$content .= "<TABLE width=\"100%\" align =\"center\">";
$content .= "<TR><TD align='center'>";
$content .= "<MARQUEE behavior=\"scroll\" height=\"$scroll_height\" direction=\"$scroll_direction\" scrollamount= \"$scroll_amount\" scrolldelay=\"$scroll_delay\" onmouseover='this.stop()' onmouseout='this.start()'>".$output_buffer."</MARQUEE>";
$content .= "</TD></TR>";
$content .= "</TABLE>";
?>



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Change

scrollamount= \"$scroll_amount\" scrolldelay=\"$scroll_delay\" onmouseover='this.stop()' onmouseout='this.start()'>".$output_buffer."</MARQUEE>";


to

scrollamount= \"$scroll_amount\" scrolldelay=\"$scroll_delay\" onmouseover='this.stop()' onmouseout='this.start()'><center>".$output_buffer."</center></MARQUEE>";




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right on! that last one did it. thanks telli



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