[PHPTAL] How do you print a grid with tal:repeat ?

Mon Feb 19 21:39:38 CET 2007

Hi Taylor Dondich:

Not sure if there is another way, but here is an example of what you are 
asking for.  However, if someone has a better way of doing, I would 
really like to know.

Example php code:

<?php

        include_once('PHPTAL.php');

        $items = array('Mike', 'Juniper', 'Aarron', 'Karl', 'John', 
'Michelle');

        $template = new PHPTAL('test.xhtml');
        $template->set('items', $items);

        try {
                print $template->execute();
        } catch (Exception $e){
                print "Error: ".$e->getMessage()."\n";
        }

?>

Here is the test.xhtml file:

<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<table id='name'>
<tr tal:repeat="row php: range(0,(count(items)/2)-1)" >
        <td tal:repeat="col php: range(0,1)">
                <span tal:define="x php: row*2 + col" 
tal:condition="exists: items/${x}" tal:replace="items/${x}" />
        </td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

I hope this helps.

Best regards,

Levi

Taylor Dondich wrote:
> Suppose I have 13 items in my collection, and I want to print a table 
> with 2 columns and as many rows as needed for my collection.  How do I 
> do that?  And if the last row only has one item, how do I know to 
> print the empty td element?
>
> Anyone have any ideas or best practices for this?
>
> Taylor
>
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