Re: [PHP-PEAR] HTML_Table.php

le 9/03/01 23:32, clayton collie =E0 [email protected] a =E9crit=A0:

> Bertrand,
> i dont know if you're thinking in this direction, but a useful subclass
> would be one tha is populated (attributes included) via user space
> callbacks.  you can then specialize and grab data from multidimensional
> arrays and db's, all from the same code.
> as an example, we can have callbacks for table, row, and cell, once we
> specify the number of columns we want to create.
>=20
> An example follows :

Clayton,

I see what you mean and I will try to think about it this weekend. At a
first glance, the idea seems good. In the code, user's callback methods wil=
l
have to be overridden (subclassed).

My objective is not to make a class like table.inc in PHPlib. The goal of
PHPlib's class is more to extract data from a DB and format them in a table=
.
The problem is that, even if it is using PHPlib DB "wrapper", it does not d=
o
the job with Oracle and others. And it is also limited on its layout
features. The class I am trying to make should not extract data on its own
but data should be passed to it, coming from the outside. In my opinion, it=
s
purpose should be more layout oriented.

BTW, do you think a method to count rows and columns already created could
be useful ? What about a method to alternate row colors ( ex:
alternateRowColor ($color1, $color2, $starting_row) ) ?

Thank you for your feedback.

Bertrand Mansion
http://www.tapage.fr