Theming Table Views

I tried that but it didn't work. Don't remember what happened exactly, but I know I ended up going a different direction when I needed to do something similar. Here's how I did it, it's a bit of a hack...

1. I created a list view as normal

2. In the views-list-CONTENTYPE.tpl.php file, I put the following:

<?php
if($title && !$count) { 
  echo "<table class='myspecialtable'>"; 
  echo "<tr><td><b>COL1TITLE</b></td><td><b>COL2TITLE</b></td><td><b>COL3TITLE</b></td></tr>";
  echo "<tr><td colspan=3 height=1 bgcolor='#cccccc'></td></tr>"; // divider line
}
if(trim($title)) { 
?>
<tr class='<?php echo $stripe; ?>'>
<td> <?php echo $title; ?> </td>
<td> <?php echo $field_one_value; ?> </td>
<td> <?php echo $field_two_value; ?> </td>
</tr>
<tr><td colspan=3 height=1 bgcolor='#cccccc'></td></tr>
<!-- divider line -->
<?php } ?>

3. That starts the table and writes all the lines, but in order to close the table I found it expedient to address the problem at the page.tpl level. My table appeared on a page whose URL was "/about/staff", so I added the following:

if(arg(0) =='about' AND arg(1) == 'staff') { echo "</table>"; }

...directly after the line that echoes $content.

Maybe a little fug, but it works.

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The Views output for a table appears to put the table in a div that can be addressed with the classes "view-content" or "view-content-VIEWNAME" where VIEWNAME is the name you gave your view when you created it. The css that addresses the "view-content" class will effect all divs created by the views module while the "view-content-VIEWNAME" will address only that one div.

To change any table contained within a "view-content" div you can do this in css:

div.view-content table {
	border: 1px solid #6D4E40;
	font-size: 85%;
	width: 100%;
}

If you want to change just a specific view then address it directly like this:

div.view-content-VIEWNAME table {
	border: 1px solid #6D4E40;
	font-size: 85%;
	width: 100%;
}

You can address the table headers, rows and data for a view similarly. To see how views names the css classes, view the source for your page.

If the function isn't called right away, try calling it by engine:

function phptemplate_views_view_table_TABLENAME($view, $nodes, $type) {}

Apart of the newer tpl filenames, you can still put those in the template.php of the theme (or include from it).