CodeIgniter HTML table generator with custom layout inside

Question

CI table->generate($data1, $data2, $data3) will output my data in a form of simple table like:

<table>
    <tr>
        <td>data1</td>
        <td>data2</td>
        <td>data3</td>
    </tr>
</table>

What if I need a complex cell layout with multiple $vars within each cell:

$data1 = array('one', 'two', 'three');

and I want something like this:

<table>
    <tr>
        <td>
            <div class="caption">$data1[0]</div>
            <span class="span1">$data1[1] and here goes <strong>$data1[2]</strong></span>
        </td>
        <td>...</td>
        <td>...</td>
    </tr>
</table>

How should I code that piece?

For now I just generate the content of td in a model and then call generate(). But this means that my HTML for the cell is in the model but I would like to keep it in views.

Hailwood · Accepted Answer · 2012-05-22 09:38:15Z

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What I would suggest is have a view that you pass the data that Generates the td structure. Capture the output of the view and pass this to the table generator. This keeps your structure in the view albeit a different one.

edited May 22, 2012 at 9:38

answered May 22, 2012 at 0:57

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eugene.inspired Over a year ago

Great solution! Didn't know that you can load->view() into a variable!

pgee70 · Accepted Answer · 2017-01-17 21:53:46Z

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Hailwood's answer isn't the best way to do it. the html table class has a data element on the add_row method. so the code would be:

$row = array();
$row[] = array('data' => "<div class='caption'>{$data1[0]}</div><span class='span1'>{$data1[1]} and here goes <strong>{$data1[2]}</strong></span>");
$row[] = $col2;
$row[] = $col3;

$this->table->add_row($row)
echo $this->table->generate();

as an aside, having a class named caption in a table is semantically confusing because table has a caption tag.

answered Jan 17, 2017 at 21:53

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