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Render Table: Render HTML tables using list elements

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Author

Martin Barker

This class render HTML tables using list elements.

It takes an array of data and generates HTML UL and LI tags to display the data as list of rows and columns using a given CSS definition to make it render correctly as a table.

The class can receive columns that will be hidden but can be used for link building.

Rules can be defined to specify how to turn certain cells into external links that open on separate browser windows.

Innovation Award
PHP Programming Innovation award nominee
August 2014
Number 8

Prize: One copy of VS.PHP		 HTML tables allow groups of page elements to be rendered in such way that they may be aligned both vertically and horizontally. However, HTML tables prevent that the elements layout be defined by separate CSS definitions.

This class provides an alternative solution to layout groups of page elements using HTML lists instead, i.e. it does not require using tables to align the page elements.

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Example

<?php
/*
 * @author Martin Barker
 * @comment This system was built for zend framework however will work without
 * if this was in a Zend_Framework application $data could be an instance of
 * Zend_Db_Table_Abstract from a query
 */

// load required files
require_once("Singleton.php");
require_once("RenderTable.php");

// get new instance of class
$rt = RenderTable::GetInstance(true);

// setup some dummy data
// please note the use of case on the column names this is how they will be outputted however
// for CSS they will use a lowercase version spaces will be converted to _
// E.G ul.table li.row ul. li.web_site
$data = array(
    array(
        "id" => 0,
        "Name" => "Martin Barker",
        "Age" => "25",
        "webaddr" => "http://www.allheavymetal.net/",
        "Profile" => "View Profile...",
        "Web Site" => "Visit Site..."
    ),
    array(
        "id" => 1,
        "Name" => "Example User",
        "Age" => "30",
        "webaddr" => "http://www.example.com",
        "Profile" => "View Profile...",
        "Web Site" => "Visit Site"
    )
);

// set the table title used for CSS ul.table.example_table
// second value is whether to show the title of the table or not
$rt->setTitle("Example Table", true);

// provide the data for rendering
$rt->setContent($data);

// set a href rule
// will detect :// and change to a _blank link for external links
// will use array and all rules append to the array
$rt->setHrefRule("Profile", "/view/profile/name/{Name}");
// you can also provide the rules as an array again these will be prepended to the rules array
$rt->setHrefRule(array(
    "Web Site" => "{webaddr}"
));

// set hidden column
$rt->setHidden("id"); // will append to a list of columns so can be called multiple times
// or hide a set of columns again will append to list
$rt->setHidden(array(
    "webaddr"
));

?>

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Accessible without login Plain text file renderTable.css Data Basic CSS
Plain text file RenderTable.php Class TheMainClass
Plain text file Singleton.php Class Singleton instance class

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