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{html_table}

{html_table} is a custom function that dumps an array of data into an HTML <table>.

Attributes

Attribute Name Required Description
loop Yes Array of data to loop through
cols No Number of columns in the table or a comma-separated list of column heading names or an array of column heading names.if the cols-attribute is empty, but rows are given, then the number of cols is computed by the number of rows and the number of elements to display to be just enough cols to display all elements. If both, rows and cols, are omitted cols defaults to 3. if given as a list or array, the number of columns is computed from the number of elements in the list or array.
rows No Number of rows in the table. if the rows-attribute is empty, but cols are given, then the number of rows is computed by the number of cols and the number of elements to display to be just enough rows to display all elements.
inner No Direction of consecutive elements in the loop-array to be rendered. cols means elements are displayed col-by-col. rows means elements are displayed row-by-row.
caption No Text to be used for the <caption> element of the table
table_attr No Attributes for <table> tag (defaults to 'border="1"')
th_attr No Attributes for <th> tag (arrays are cycled)
tr_attr No attributes for <tr> tag (arrays are cycled)
td_attr No Attributes for <td> tag (arrays are cycled)
trailpad No Value to pad the trailing cells on last row with (if any) (defaults to ' ')
hdir No Direction of each row to be rendered. possible values: right (left-to-right), and left (right-to-left) (defaults to 'right')
vdir No Direction of each column to be rendered. possible values: down (top-to-bottom), up (bottom-to-top) (defaults to 'down')

  • The cols attribute determines how many columns will be in the table.

  • The table_attr, tr_attr and td_attr values determine the attributes given to the <table>, <tr> and <td> tags.

  • If tr_attr or td_attr are arrays, they will be cycled through.

  • trailpad is the value put into the trailing cells on the last table row if there are any present.

Examples

<?php
$smarty->assign( 'data', array(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9) );
$smarty->assign( 'tr', array('bgcolor="#eeeeee"','bgcolor="#dddddd"') );
$smarty->display('index.tpl');

The variables assigned from php could be displayed as these three examples demonstrate. Each example shows the template followed by output.

** Example 1 ** 

{html_table loop=$data}

<table border="1">
    <tbody>
        <tr><td>1</td><td>2</td><td>3</td></tr>
        <tr><td>4</td><td>5</td><td>6</td></tr>
        <tr><td>7</td><td>8</td><td>9</td></tr>
    </tbody>
</table>

** Example 2 ** 

{html_table loop=$data cols=4 table_attr='border="0"'}

<table border="0">
    <tbody>
        <tr><td>1</td><td>2</td><td>3</td><td>4</td></tr>
        <tr><td>5</td><td>6</td><td>7</td><td>8</td></tr>
        <tr><td>9</td><td>&nbsp;</td><td>&nbsp;</td><td>&nbsp;</td></tr>
    </tbody>
</table>

** Example 3 ** 

{html_table loop=$data cols="first,second,third,fourth" tr_attr=$tr}

<table border="1">
    <thead>
        <tr>
        <th>first</th><th>second</th><th>third</th><th>fourth</th>
        </tr>
    </thead>
    <tbody>
        <tr bgcolor="#eeeeee"><td>1</td><td>2</td><td>3</td><td>4</td></tr>
        <tr bgcolor="#dddddd"><td>5</td><td>6</td><td>7</td><td>8</td></tr>
        <tr bgcolor="#eeeeee"><td>9</td><td>&nbsp;</td><td>&nbsp;</td><td>&nbsp;</td></tr>
    </tbody>
</table>