How to theme view module's "table view"?

I haven't used maps in table views. What's the theme generator output for that field? Is this some sort of a teaser view generated by the gmap or location module? You might have to override a themable function in the mapping module. Do you need the map in the table view - or could you get away with just the link to the map in a separate node? You could use display:none in your css - but search engines doen't like that too much, from what I hear.

Good luck,
sean

I did it by overriding the entire theme_views_view_table function. I have a table view with date, location (actually a plain text field - I'm running 5.0-beta and location.module appears to not be quite ready), link, title, and body fields, which I wanted to display in a three-column table. The cells should be date, location, and details. The details column should contain the title (formatted as a link to the URL contained in the link field) and the body.

So in the foreach loop that puts together the fields in each row, I check the field name. Date and location are treated just like the original theme function - the value is put in a cell and the cell is added to the row. For the link field, the URL is saved in a variable without creating a new cell. Then the title field is formatted as a link to that URL (unless it's empty), and put in a cell. The cell is not added to the row yet. Finally, the body field gets appended to the cell, and the cell is added to the row.

I also have to generate my own table header, because left to its own devices the view would stick a five-column header on top of my three-column table.

Caveat: there may be a better way to do this. In fact, I found this question while trying to figure out if this was the best way. So, if someone has a simpler solution, I'd love to know about it. This way at least works, though. Here's my code; change 'mytheme' to your theme name, put it in your template.php, and work out how to plug your own fields and formatting needs into it.

function mytheme_views_view_table_upcoming($view, $nodes, $type) {
  // Format the header
 	$header = array();
 	$cell['data'] = 'Date';
 	$cell['class'] = 'shows-date';
 	$header[] = $cell;
 	$cell['data'] = 'Location';
 	$cell['class'] = 'shows-location';
 	$header[] = $cell;
 	$cell['data'] = 'Show Information';
 	$cell['class'] = 'shows-description';
 	$header[] = $cell;

  $fields = _views_get_fields();

  foreach ($nodes as $node) {

    $row = array();
    $show_href ='';
    
    foreach ($view->field as $field) {
      if ($fields[$field['id']]['visible'] !== FALSE) {
      	switch ($field['field']) {
      		case 'field_date_value':
    		    $cell['data'] = views_theme_field('views_handle_field', $field['queryname'], $fields, $field, $node, $view);
		        $cell['class'] = 'shows-date';
		        $row[] = $cell;
		        break;
		      case 'field_location_value':
    		    $cell['data'] = views_theme_field('views_handle_field', $field['queryname'], $fields, $field, $node, $view);
		        $cell['class'] = 'shows-location';
		        $row[] = $cell;
      		  break;
		      case 'field_link_url':
		        $show_href = $node->$field['queryname'];
            break;
      		case 'title':
      		  if ($show_href != '') { 
            	$cell['data'] = '<h3>' . l(views_theme_field('views_handle_field', $field['queryname'], $fields, $field, $node, $view), $show_href, array('target' => 'blank'), NULL, NULL, FALSE, FALSE) . "</h3>\n";
            } else {
            	$cell['data'] = '<h3>' . views_theme_field('views_handle_field', $field['queryname'], $fields, $field, $node, $view) . "</h3>\n";
            }
		        $cell['class'] = 'shows-description';
		        break;
		      case 'body':
    		    $cell['data'] .= views_theme_field('views_handle_field', $field['queryname'], $fields, $field, $node, $view);
		        $row[] = $cell;
		      
        }
      		  
        //$cell['data'] = $field['field'] . ': ' . $node->$field['queryname'];
        //$cell['class'] = "view-field ". views_css_safe('view-field-'. $field['queryname']);
        //$row[] = $cell;
      }
    }
    $rows[] = $row;
  }
  return theme('table', $header, $rows, array('class' => 'show-table'));
}

The code is right, but is the switch/case loading?
It usually goes inside the loop:
foreach ($view->field as $field) {}

What i do is counting the cells with something like:

$n++;
switch($n){
case 1:
//etc
break;
}

Debug it a little and you'll get it working.
Otherwise post the whole function.
Use code tags to keep the > and < signs.

Unfortunately, there's no easy gui tool yet to modify tables.
To create a table programatically you need to code the function that would do it.
But minimal php skills can get you there, if you spend a little time on reading the examples.

The idea is like this:
You need a table with the html tags: table, tr, td, etc.
The php code reads the node and puts the field values in $cell, which results in td tags.
The $cell is then put in $row, which results in tr tags.
The $row is then put in $rows, which results in table tags.

To modify the default table, which is a simple table, you need to alter the order in which the values are put in the variables, so that the table is created automatically.

Since you want a particular arrangement, you need to first to "design" where you want the values.
In your example, you have title, description, price and link, and want to group title and price above, then the rest below.

To do this, you need to supress the part of the sample code that deals with $cell and $row.
Instead, you put the values in variables, like $title, $price, $desc and $addtocart.
The sample code shows several ways to identify these values.

Once out of the loop write some code to replace the supressed parts and rebuild the arrays:
pass $title and $price to $cell, then $cell to $row, and $row to $rows, making one row,
then the same for $desc and $addtocart to put them in the second row.

In the end, if you keep the rest of the sample code, the table will be built automatically.
The $cell has a property for class, which is then used to apply the css style that will format the table.
Make your function and you can post it here for reviews.

You'll need php to load anything that the modules do not have available to use in views.
If those variables are available in the $node you can use node_load() inside the themed view.
In this way you just manually add those values into $cell and the table will be built automatically.