Empty view not empty

Have you checked the actual markup that comes out of the tab? Check the flipped table TPL file for any obvious problems.

Can you also check the markup that the same view result provides as, say, a page, both as a regular and flipped table?

The TPL file will always provide a result, even if it is an empty table.

I have added some extra checks to the template to test if the rows contain any information before the table mark up.

I have included the complete template file here.

<?php
/**
 * @file views-flipped-table.tpl.php
 * Template to display a view as a table with rows and columns flipped.
 *
 * - $title : The title of this group of rows.  May be empty.
 * - $header: An array of header labels keyed by field id.
 * - $fields: An array of CSS IDs to use for each field id.
 * - $class: A class or classes to apply to the table, based on settings.
 * - $row_classes: An array of classes to apply to each row, indexed by row
 *   number. This matches the index in $rows.
 * - $rows: An array of row items. Each row is an array of content.
 *   $rows are keyed by row number, fields within rows are keyed by field ID.
 *   
 * @ingroup views_templates
 */
?>
<?php
  // Flip the table.
  $row = array();
  foreach ($rows as $col){
    foreach ($col as $ltr => $value){
      $row[$ltr][] = $value;
    }
  }
  $first = isset($row['title']);
  $element = 'odd';
?>
<?php if (!empty($row)) : // Test to see if rows contain any data ?> 
<table class="<?php print $class; ?>">
  <?php if (!empty($title)) : ?>
    <caption><?php print $title; ?></caption>
  <?php endif; ?>

  <?php if ($first) : ?>
  <thead>
    <tr class="<?php echo $element; ?>">
      <th>
      </th>
      <?php foreach ($row['title'] as $title) : ?>
      <th>
      <?php echo $title; ?>
      </th>
      <?php endforeach; ?>
    </tr>
  </thead>
  <?php  
    $first = FALSE;
    endif; //$first
    $element = 'even';
  ?>  
 <tbody>
    <?php foreach ($row as $field => $rowname) : ?>
      <?php if ($field != 'title') : ?>
      <tr class="<? echo $element; ?>">
        <th>
          <?php echo $header[$field]; ?>
        </th>
      <?php foreach ($rowname as $count => $item): ?>
        <td>
          <?php echo $item; ?>
        </td>
      <?php endforeach; ?>
      </tr>
      <?php
        if ($element == 'odd'){
          $element = 'even';
        } else {
          $element = 'odd';
        }
      ?>
      <?php endif; // field != title ?>
    <?php endforeach; ?>
  </tbody>
</table>
<?php endif;  // field != row ?>

Hope this helps
Phil

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Phillip Brough
Percontor Experiential Design

Thanks for investigating.

Any chance you could post your change as a patch?

The change is apparently against 6.x-1.0-beta2, and the patch against 6.x-1.x is attached.

I'm not seeing this behaviour in 7.x at all though. Going to close.