Table class: no more html for tables

[Shindou Hikaru]

I created a very pretty table class I hope will be used for yabbse. Download it here. I posted the whole class below.

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<?php

/*****************************************************************

Table Class Copyright 2002 Mephidmann <[email protected]

Dedicated to the worlds bestest opensource forum: YaBB SE

Look below for executing examples

********************************************************************/

class table_create
        {
        function table($rows, $parameters=array())
                {
                if(!is_array($rows) OR (isset($parameters) AND !is_array($parameters)))
                        {
                        print($this->printError("Table rows and parameters must be inputed in an array"));
                        }
                unset($params);
                while(list($k, $v) = each($parameters))
                        {
                        $params .= " " . $k . "=\"" . $v . "\"";
                        }
                while(list($k, $v) = each($rows))
                        {
                        $parsedrows .= $this->tr($rows[$k][0], $rows[$k][1]);
                        }
                return("<table" . $params . ">\n" . $parsedrows . "</table>\n");
                }
        
        function tr($cells, $parameters=array())
                {
                if(!is_array($cells) OR (isset($parameters) AND !is_array($parameters)))
                        {
                        print($this->printError("Row cells and parameters must be inputed in an array"));
                        }
                unset($params);
                while(list($k, $v) = each($parameters))
                        {
                        $params .= " " . $k . "=\"" . $v . "\"";
                        }
                while(list($k, $v) = each($cells))
                        {
                        $parsedcells .= $this->td($cells[$k][0], $cells[$k][1]);
                        }
                return("<tr" . $params . ">\n" . $parsedcells . "</tr>\n");
                }
        
        function td($content, $parameters=array())
                {
                unset($params);
                while(list($k, $v) = each($parameters))
                        {
                        $params .= " " . $k . "=\"" . $v . "\"";
                        }
                $content = stripslashes($content);
                return("<td" . $params . ">" . $content . "</td>\n");
                }
        
        function printError($error)
                {
                return die("<font color=red>" . $error . "</font>\n");
                }
        }
        
#Examples of use#
$table = new table_create;
$cell[0][0] = "Hello, how are you, this is the first cell I created today";
$cell[0][1] = array("align" => "center", "bgcolor" => "red");
$cell[1][0] = "Cell number 2 in row #1";
$cell[1][1] = array("height" => 50, "valign" => "top", "bgcolor" => "blue");
$cell[2][0] = "Cell spanning whole column";
$cell[2][1] = array("bgcolor" => "orange", "colspan" => 2, "align" => "center");
$row[0][0] = array($cell[0], $cell[1]); 
$row[0][1] = array();
$row[1][0] = array($cell[2]);
$row[1][1] = array();
$params = array("border" => 1);
print($table->table($row, $params));

/**************************************
More explaining:
$cell is an array, containing three values, each a different cell on the table.
Each of those cell values, is also an array, containing the cell contents and
parameters.

$row is also an array, one value for each row, those values again being arrays
with the first value being the row contents and the second being an array with
parameters

$params is an array with general table properties
*************************************/
?>

SCREENSHOT OF RESULT OF EXAMPLE:

[Jeff Lewis]

All that to create a table? Like I said, talk to Greg...

[Shindou Hikaru]

really, i contacted him this time. The first time you asked i couldn't figure out his username so I had no clue who to IM. Now i figured it out.

[groundup]

that is an awful lot to create a small table like that

[Shindou Hikaru]

this is just one way to do it. There are many other ways. But if you think, if you replace all the hundreds of tables in yabbse, you'll save a lot of space on the long run.

Another plus about using this is that code is much easier to eversee and editing can be done on the fly.

A lot of parameters that I filled in in the example are optional btw.

[Jeff Lewis]

really, i contacted him this time. The first time you asked i couldn't figure out his username so I had no clue who to IM. Now i figured it out.

Oops, sorry about that. He'll probably get in touch with you shortly.

[Greg Robson]

aaahhhh, my wonderful TemplateParser! But hang on this is the feedback forum