tedd wrote:
At 12:05 AM -0700 10/9/07, Jim Lucas wrote:
Daevid Vincent wrote:
Does PHP have any tools like this? I'd prefer not to pull in some PEAR
package or other bloat, but I'll take what I can get if it actually
works
well. I was hoping there are some tips/tricks to show simple tabular
data:
-snip-
notice basic things like alignment, length of data (as in 'tabs'
won't work), etc.
Try this out
-snip- code
Jim:
Thanks for the code. I've altered it to display a table in a browser:
http://webbytedd.com/bbb/table/
Code is shown there.
Cheers,
tedd
Wasn't he asking for something that was to display in the console?
I wouldn't use that to display tabular data in a browser.
I will attach what I use to display in a browser.
I updated the comments, I think everything is correct. Let me know what you think
<?php
/**
* This class is for creating an HTML table
*
* Example usage
* $table = new table();
* $table->addHeader( array('ID', 'FirstName', 'LastName'), 'header');
* $table->addData( array(1, 'Jim', 'L'), 'rowA');
* $table->addData( array(2, 'Tim', 'H'), 'rowB');
* $table->addData( array(1, 'Jim', 'B'), 'rowA');
* $table->addData( array(2, 'Chris', 'C'), 'rowB');
* echo $table->get('table_one', 'some_class');
*
* or
*
* $data[] = array('id' => 1, 'first_name' => 'John', 'last_name' => 'Doe');
* $data[] = array('id' => 2, 'first_name' => 'Jonny', 'last_name' => 'Buck');
* $data[] = array('id' => 3, 'first_name' => 'James', 'last_name' => 'Smith');
* $table = new table();
* $table->dump($dataArray);
* echo $table->to_s();
*/
class table {
/**
* Purpose is to contain table data for display purposes later
*
* @type array()
*/
var $table = array();
/**
* Constructor.
*
* @return Class Object
*/
function __construct() {
return $this;
}
/**
* Constructor, php4 style
*
* @return Class Object
*/
function table() {
return $this->__construct();
}
/**
* Creates a table header row
*
* This calls to the addRow method to create a list of cells with the $data submitted
* It creates <th>...</th> cells
*
* @param Your 1-dimensional array of data
* @param Value you would like to set id for the <tr id="..."> tag
*
* @return Class Object
*/
function addHeader($data, $row_id=null) {
$this->addRow($data, 'th', $row_id);
return $this;
}
/**
* Creates a table data row
*
* This calls to the addRow method to create a list of cells with the $data submitted
* It creates <td>...</td> cells
*
* @param Your 1-dimensional array of data
* @param Value you would like to set id for the <tr id="..."> tag
*
* @return Class Object
*/
function addData($data, $row_id=null) {
$this->addRow($data, 'td', $row_id);
return $this;
}
/**
* Creates a table row, when called
*
* @param Data to be displayed
* @param Which type of cells are we creating? td (default) or th
* @param ID value to be appended to the <tr id='row_...'> tag
*
* @return Class Object
*/
function addRow($data, $type='td', $row_id=null) {
$this->table[] = "<tr id='row_{$row_id}'>";
foreach ( $data AS $id => $cell ) {
$this->table[] = "<{$type} class='col_{$id}'>".
htmlspecialchars($cell)."</{$type}>";
}
$this->table[] = '</tr>';
return $this;
}
/**
* Just build a table from an array full of data
*
* @param Your 2-dimensional array of data
*
* @return Class Object
*/
function dump($data=array()) {
for ( $x=0; $x<count($data); $x++ ) {
if ( ( $x % 20) == 0 ) {
$this->addHeader(array_keys($data[$x]));
}
$this->addData($data[$x]);
}
return $this;
}
/**
* Generate and return the built table
*
* @param Specify the ID value for the table id attribute
* @param Specify a class for the table class attribute
*
* @return if data found, return formatted table
* if no data found, return 'No data to display' message
*/
function get($id='', $class='') {
if ( count($this->table) ) {
return "\n<table id='{$id}' class='{$class}'
cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0'>\n".
join("\n", $this->table)."\n</table>\n";
}
return 'No data to display';
}
/**
* Generate and return the built table
*
* The purpose of this method is to be forwards compatible.
* Most of my new CMS tries to detect if an object has a to_s() method
*
* @return results from the get() method
*/
function to_s() {
return $this->get();
}
}
--
Jim Lucas
"Some men are born to greatness, some achieve greatness,
and some have greatness thrust upon them."
Twelfth Night, Act II, Scene V
by William Shakespeare
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