table columns function

Discussion in 'PHP' started by zkvision, Sep 22, 2008.

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  1. #1
    Hello Everybody,
    Needs help in generating output for the following function.

    thanks
    
function tcolumns($input, $cols) {
$input = array('one', 'two', 'three', 'four', 'five', 'six', 'seven');
    $cols = 2;
     /* 
$output = should be like this
<table><tr>
    <td>one</td>
    <td>five</td>
</tr><tr>
    <td>two</td>
    <td>six</td>
</tr><tr>
    <td>three</td>
    <td>seven</td>
</tr><tr>    
   <td>four</td>
    <td></td>
</tr> </table>
    */ 
    return $output;
}
    PHP:

     
    zkvision, Sep 22, 2008 IP
  2. ads2help

    ads2help Peon

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    someone might have better way but at least the function below can do it
    
function tcolumns($input, $cols) {
$output = "<table>";
$number_of_tr = round(count($input)/$cols);

for ($i=0;$i<=($number_of_tr-1);$i++) {
$output .="<tr>\r\n";
    for ($ii=1;$ii<=$cols;$ii++) {
    if (!isset($pointer)) { $pointer = $i; } else { $pointer = $i+4; }
    $output .= "  <td>".$input[$pointer]."</td>\r\n";
    }
    /* reset $pointer */ unset($pointer);
    $output .= "</tr>\r\n";
}
$output .= '</table>';
return $output;
}
    PHP:
    Test the function using this
    
// i dont know if this matters but please assign key 0 to the first item in the array if you can
$input = array( 0=> 'one', 'two', 'three', 'four', 'five', 'six', 'seven');
$cols = 2;
print tcolumns($input,$cols);
    PHP:
    try to assign key 0 to the first item in the array because the key is important for the function to run properly
    i do not know if this matters.
    hope this helps
     
    ads2help, Sep 23, 2008 IP