Category:Libraries -> Community | Category:Libraries -> Forms
Form to Table
Introduction
How about not having to create any tables around forms anymore?
If you need help or even better have improvements let me know, please.
I watch this forum thread
Usage
This will create a row with a single item and the key will be the heading:
$form['Group'] = '<input type="text" name="group" />';
This will create a row with two itens and the second keys will be the headings:
Note the [1]. Numeric keys will be multi item rows. You can add as many items to a row as you need.
$form[1]['slug'] = '<input type="text" name="slug" />';
$form[1]['Group'] = '<input type="text" name="group" />';
3 items:
$form[2]['slug'] = '<input type="text" name="slug" />';
$form[2]['Group'] = '<input type="text" name="group" />';
$form[2]['Template'] = '<input type="text" name="Template" />';
This will create the form and the table:
Note the two ‘not intended’ lines, that is all it takes to wrap the table.
function addPage()
{
$data = form_open('admin/addPage', $attributes);
$form['Title'] = '<input type="text" name="Title" value="" maxlength="200" size="50" />';
$form[1]['slug'] = '<input type="text" name="slug" />';
$form[1]['Group'] = form_dropdown('groups', user_groups(), 'User');
$form['Body'] = '<textarea name="Body" rows="20" cols="80" /></textarea>';
$form[''] = '<input type="submit" name="submit_page" value="Submit" />';
$this->load->library('table');
$data .= $this->table->form_table($form);
$data .= '</form>';
$this->load->view('layout/blank', $data);
}
Source
/system/application/libraries/MY_Table.php
<?php if (!defined('BASEPATH')) exit('No direct script access allowed');
class MY_Table extends CI_Table {
function __construct()
{
parent::CI_Table();
}
function form_table($form)
{
$return = '<table style="width: auto;"><tr><td>';
$this->set_template($this->form_table_tmpl());
foreach($form as $k=>$v){
if(is_numeric($k)){
$head = array_keys($v);
$this->set_heading($head);
$return .= $this->generate($v);
}else{
$this->set_heading($k);
$this->add_row($v);
$return .= $this->generate();
}
$this->clear();
}
$return .= '</td></tr></table>';
return $return;
}
function form_table_tmpl()
{
return array (
'table_open' => '<table class="form" style="width: 100%;">',
'heading_row_start' => '<tr class="form">',
'heading_row_end' => '</tr>',
'heading_cell_start' => '<th class="form" style="text-align: left;">',
'heading_cell_end' => '</th>',
'row_start' => '<tr class="form">',
'row_end' => '</tr>',
'cell_start' => '<td class="form style="text-align: left;"">',
'cell_end' => '</td>',
'row_alt_start' => '<tr class="form">',
'row_alt_end' => '</tr>',
'cell_alt_start' => '<td class="form style="text-align: left;"">',
'cell_alt_end' => '</td>',
'table_close' => '</table>'
);
}
}
?>
Example
Here is one more sample with hidden fields and radio buttons:
function Form()
{
$action = $this->uri->segment(3);
$checkYes = $checkNo = FALSE;
$this->dbdata = $this->set_form();
extract($this->dbdata);
if($Showroom == 1 || $Showroom == 'Yes' ){ $checkYes = TRUE; }
if($Showroom == 0 || $Showroom == 'No' ){ $checkNo = TRUE; }
$attributes = array('name' => 'vehicle');
$this->tpl['body'] = form_open("billboard/bb_vehicle/$action", $attributes);
$data = array(
'name' => 'Title',
'id' => 'Title',
'value' => $Title,
'maxlength' => '30',
'size' => '10',
'style' => '',
);
$form['Title'] = form_input($data);
$form[1]['Showroom'] = form_radio('Showroom', 'Yes', $checkYes) . 'Yes';
$form[1][''] = form_radio('Showroom', 'No', $checkNo) . 'No';
$this->load->library('table');
$this->tpl['body'] .= $this->table->form_table($form);
$this->tpl['body'] .= form_hidden('id', $id);
$this->tpl['body'] .= '<div style="text-align: right;"><input type="submit" name="submit_vehicle" value="Submit" /></div>';
$this->tpl['body'] .= '</form>';
$this->load->view('layout/blank', $this->tpl);
}