Will look into this and correct as soon as possible.

Pete

Michael Kolakowski wrote:
> Thanks for the , Ken. However, I now have a couple new questions.
>
> First: There is a th_attr attribute listed for html_table (link
> below). I cannot get it to work. I tried using a string and assigning
> an array in the php file to be passed to the template. Neither worked.
>
> Second: I also tried, on a whim, to use the caption attribute. It
> seems fairly simple, but again, it does not work. My line looks like this:
>
> {html_table loop=$tableData cols=2 caption="hello"
> table_attr='border="2"' tr_attr=$colors}
>
> For what it's worth, I am getting a bit frustrated with html_table as
> things do not seem to be working as advertised. I would either
> appreciate corrections to the documentation or more examples showing how
> things work - e.g. and example using *all* the attributes for whatever
> function it is.
>
> Note: I am aware this is open source and many work very hard and
> volunteer. I fully respect that. I am not trying to be mean, just
> trying to give some feedback from a new user's point of view. That is
> important if you want people to adopt your product. By the way - I do
> like Smarty so far...very cool indeed.
>
> Thank you much,
> Michael Kolakowski
>
>
>
> Ken Snyder wrote:
>> It appears that the documentation is incorrect. Using version 2.6.14,
>> the cols parameter is only used as an integer. It has no
>> functionality to pass in column names or do <th> at all. You might
>> try a custom plugin from one of the plugin repositories.
>>
>> Ken
>>
>> From plugins/function.html_table.php
>>
>> $loop_count = count($loop);
>> if (empty($params['rows'])) {
>> /* no rows specified */
>> $rows = ceil($loop_count/$cols);
>> } elseif (empty($params['cols'])) {
>> if (!empty($params['rows'])) {
>> /* no cols specified, but rows */
>> $cols = ceil($loop_count/$rows);
>> }
>> }
>>
>> Michael Kolakowski wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I cannot seem to get the third table in this example to work:
>>>
>>> http://smarty.php.net/manual/en/lang...html.table.php
>>>
>>> I am using the latest smarty and php5 on a Mac. The problem is the
>>> cols attribute. I typed it in exactly like the example and I get a
>>> divide by zero error. I also tried declaring an array, with the col
>>> names, in my php file. Then I tired using the array as such in my
>>> template file:
>>>
>>> {html_table loop=$tableData cols=$colNames tr_attr=$colors}
>>>
>>> At which point the table finally showed up, BUT there was only one
>>> column...and none of the column names were there. The alternating
>>> colors worked, however.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Michael Kolakowski
>>>
>>
>>