By Fluffy Convict on

I'm trying to use the theme_table API to form a table row that looks like this:

<tr id="more_142"><td colspan="7"><span>foo!</span></td></tr>

I can't seem to get the array right. I've tried, among others:

$row[] = array(
  'data' => array('data' => '<span>foo!</span>', 'colspan' => 7), 'id' => 'more_'. $story->nid
);

result:
<tr><td id="more_142">Array</td></tr>

$row[] = array(
  'data' => '<span>foo!</span>', 'colspan' => 7, 'id' => 'more_'. $story->nid
);

result:
<tr><td colspan="7" id="more_142">foo!</td></tr>

Who could help me with the correct syntax to get the output I want?

Comments

nevets’s picture

nevets commented

It helps to think in terms of rows and a single row, so using $rows as what you would pass to the theme function this should get you going

$rows = array();
$row =  array('data' => '<span>foo!</span>', 'colspan' => 7);
$rows[] =  array('data' => $row, 'id' => 'more_'. $story->nid);
Fluffy Convict’s picture

Fluffy Convict commented

I now have

$row2   = array('data' => '<span>foo!</span>', 'colspan' => '7');
$rows[] =  array('data' => $row2, 'id' => 'more_'. $story->nid);

It returns

<tr id="more_163">
  <td><span>foo!</span></td>
  <td>7</td>
</tr>

Why does the "7" of colspan gets turned into another td? How would I have to change the php to get following outcome?

<tr id="more_163">
  <td colspan="7"><span>foo!</span></td>
</tr>
nevets’s picture

nevets commented

Sorry, missed part of $rows, it should look like

$row2   = array(array('data' => '<span>foo!</span>', 'colspan' => '7'));

Each row show be an array of cells (the outer array), each cell can be just a value or an array as in this case.