By vaishnavig on

hi,
i want to display some values in a table.
What is the syntax to create a table in drupal?

Thank u

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dman’s picture

dman commented

Set your input format to 'full html'
Turn off your WYSIWYG editor
Paste normal HTML syntax.

If you want to code PHP instead,
set your input format to 'PHP Code'
Turn off your WIYSIWG
Read the API docs on 'theme_table()'

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gareth_w commented

and then just use normal HTML syntax. Works fine for me.

Don't know if there is a BBCode euqivalent for this (and not sure you'd want one).

The alternative is to install a WYSIWYG editor with a table tool, but that's using the proverbial sledgehammer to crack the nut.

Gareth

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vaishnavig commented

i do not want to paste my html code in the body....
i want to create a table through code in .module file just like we create other fields e.g
$form['name']=array(
'#type' => 'textfield',
'#title' => t('Name '),
);

can anybody tell me the syntax for that?

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dman commented

Read the instructions for theme_table().
Although it's better to learn from examples.
Unfortunately I can't think of any really simple examples... Try searching!

.dan.
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vaishnavig commented

thank u ......i'l chk that out

itpaul’s picture

itpaul commented 
$table = "<table>
                  <tr><td>1-1 tableData</td><td>1-2 tableData</td></tr>         
                  <tr><td>2-1 tableData</td><td>2-2 tableData</td></tr>
                </table>";

$form['table'] = array(
    '#title' => $table,
    '#type' => 'item'
);

produces

1-1 tableData 1-2 tableData
2-1 tableData 2-2 tableData
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ankurgupta510 commented

If you mean database table then you can access your database and insert the values inside the tables directly . Else there is a module for this purpose http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/dba-5.x-1.x-dev.tar.gz though it is underdeveloped .

Thanks

vaishnavig’s picture

vaishnavig commented

i want to create a table to display some values in table format.

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rimma commented

same as title

vaishnavig’s picture

vaishnavig commented

thank u all for ur reply
the problem is solved

$output.=echo "<table><tr>";
$output.=echo"<td>bbgb</td>";
$output.=echo"</tr></table>";
drupal_set_message($output);
dvkd’s picture

dvkd commented

Hi Vaishnavig

I tried this code:

$output.=echo "

";
$output.=echo"

";
$output.=echo"

bbgb

";
drupal_set_message($output);

but it showed parse error , what could be the reason?

thankyou

bangdel’s picture

bangdel commented

if you are only trying to print the text, then remove echo from your code.
that way your string will simply get concatenated in the $output variable and it will get printed with the drupal_set_message.

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selvain commented 
$output= "<table><tr>";
$output.="<td>bbgb</td>";
$output.="</tr><tr>hi</tr></table>";
drupal_set_message($output);
chetan-singhal’s picture

chetan-singhal commented

For this you should use table theme.
For detail you can read this
table theme api

I am giving you an example for this-

<?php
$table_header=header('Name','Type');
$result_row=array( 
                               array('test','test1'),
                               array('test','test1'),
                               array('test','test1'),
                               )
$output=theme('table', array('header' => $table_header,
			  'rows' => $result_row,
			  'empty' => 'No records found!!',
			  'attributes' => array('id' => array('table_id'))));
?>

chetan