Table Class
Allows you to see (and edit) in an instant your html table by separating the content from the markup.
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| Table | ( [ $vars ] ) |
| row | ( [ $align [, $bgcolor ]] ) |
| cell | ( [ $vars [, $content ]] ) |
| close | ( ) |
| An Advanced PHP for Beginners Example | |
| The (X)HTML Output | |
| Final Result | |
| object Table ( [ string $vars ] ) | top |
Creates an (X)HTML table object.
- $vars:
- A "|" delimited string of table attributes and their values. No quotes needed.
- Example:
<?php
$tb = new Table ('class=center|cellpadding=5');
?>
| string row ( [ string $align [, string $bgcolor ]] ) | top |
Creates a new row in your table.
- $align:
- Either 'left', 'center', or 'right' to align all of the cells in this row at once.
- $bgcolor:
- A color's name or hexidecimal value to set the background color of this row.
- Returns:
- A string of code to add to your $html.
- Example:
<?php
$html .= $tb->row('center');
?>
| string cell ( [ string $vars [, string $content ]] ) | top |
Creates a new cell within your $tb->row().
- $vars:
- A "|" delimited string of cell attributes and their values.
- $content:
- The cells content. It looks nicer here, but any content added to your $html before you start a new row or close the table will show up in this cell.
- Returns:
- A string of code to add to your $html.
- Example:
<?php
$html .= $tb->cell('valign=top', 'This cells content');
?>
| string close ( ) | top |
Ties up the loose ends, and closes out the table.
- Returns:
- A string of code to add to your $html.
- Example:
<?php
$html .= $tb->close();
?>
| An Advanced PHP for Beginners Example: | top |
<?php
$page = new Page;
$page->link('style.css');
$html = '';
$tb = new Table ('width=500|cellpadding=5|border=1');
$html .= $tb->row();
$html .= $tb->cell('align=left', 'Cell 1');
$html .= $tb->cell('align=center', 'Cell 2');
$html .= $tb->cell('align=right', 'Cell 3');
$html .= $tb->row('center');
$html .= $tb->cell('rowspan=2', 'All Cells Centered');
$html .= $tb->cell('colspan=2', 'In This Row');
$html .= $tb->row('', '#FFCC00');
$html .= $tb->cell('colspan=2', 'New Row');
$html .= $tb->row();
$html .= $tb->cell('colspan=3|align=right', 'Notice how easy it is to see what is going on?');
$t1 = new Table ('align=left|border=1');
$html .= $t1->row();
$html .= $t1->cell('colspan=3', 'Easy as . . .');
$html .= $t1->row();
$html .= $t1->cell('', 1);
$html .= $t1->cell('', 2);
$html .= $t1->cell('', 3);
$html .= $t1->row();
$html .= $t1->cell('colspan=3', ' . . . or pie!');
$html .= $t1->close();
unset ($t1);
$html .= '<br /><br />Think outside of the bun.';
$html .= $tb->close();
unset ($tb);
echo $page->display ($html);
?>
| The (X)HTML Output: | top |
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>Advanced PHP for Beginners</title>
<meta name="description" content="Advanced PHP for Beginners">
<meta name="keywords" content="Advanced PHP for Beginners">
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://www.advancedphpforbeginners.com/combine/style.css">
</head>
<body>
<table width="500" cellpadding="5" border="1">
<tr>
<td align="left">Cell 1</td>
<td align="center">Cell 2</td>
<td align="right">Cell 3</td></tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="2" align="center">All Cells Centered</td>
<td colspan="2" align="center">In This Row</td></tr>
<tr bgcolor="#FFCC00">
<td colspan="2">New Row</td></tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="3" align="right">Notice how easy it is to see what is going on?
<table align="left" border="1">
<tr>
<td colspan="3">Easy as . . .</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>1</td>
<td>2</td>
<td>3</td></tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="3"> . . . or pie!</td></tr>
</table><br><br>Think outside of the bun.</td></tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>| Final Result: | top |
