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

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
>>
>
>

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
>>>
>>
>>