Classes and PHP
Let's do the table body now:
<TR>
<?php
$Tbody->tdout ("Kreisler");
$Tbody->tdout ("Rod");
$Tbody->tdout ("Cortlandt");
$Tbody->tdout ("New York");
$Tbody->tdout ("USA");
?>
</TR>
But This is still getting kind of lengthy. Couldn ' t we save some more steps? How about trying this:
<?php
function trout ($message) {/*and NO comments about fish, please!;) * *
PRINT "<tr>\n";
$cells =explode ("|", $message);
$iterations =count ($cells);
$i = 0;
while ($i < $iterations) {
List ($message, $span) =explode (":", $cells [$i]);
if (strlen ($message) <1) $message = "";
if ($span) {
$this->tdout ($message, $span);
}else{
$this->tdout ($message);
}
$i + +;
}
PRINT "</tr>\n";
}
?>
wow! That ' s a little more complicated. Let ' s break it down:
Line 3 splits the "pipes" and stores the pieces in the array $cells. Line 4 stores the number of items (number of cells) in $iterations. Line 6 begins we loop to go through these cell items. Line 7 splits the "cell data" in the colon and stores them into the variables $message and $span. Line 8 checks to the If a message is included. If not then it sets message to the default. Line 9 checks to the if there is a span listed (i.e. the cell data had a colon with something behind it. If so, line C Alls Tdout with the and the number of cells it spans. If not, line calls Tdout with just the message (Tdout'll set $colspan to the default 1). Lastly, we close out the row.
What This means are we can pass a single string to trout that would contain all of the necessary information to print out the E Ntire row as long as the "Celldata[:colspan]|celldata[:colspan]|......celldata[:colspan]" in the format.
So, instead of the ' all ' work we did before, the headers and body of the table could is called like this:
<TABLE>
?
$Theader->trout ("name:2| Address:3 ");
$Theader->trout ("first| Last| city| state/province| Country ");
$Tbody->trout ("rod| kreisler| Cortlandt| New york| USA ");
?>
</TABLE>
Wow. That ' s a lot easier. But What if the data is in variables? Simply Join the array:
<?php
$message =join ($arry, "|");
$Tbody->trout ($message);
?>
