Re: Witango-Talk: Arranging a table vertically, not horizontally

[Robert Garcia]

I have an approach to doing this that has always worked for me. I have done
this many ways over the years, but recently have found this to be the most
efficient. Lets assume the array we are making the table from is
@@local$tableArray, the number of cols is @@local$numCols:

<@! first figure the number of rows>
<@assign local$numTableRows
<@calc "ceil(<@numrows array=local$tableArray>/@@local$numCols)">>

<table>

<@! Create a counter to keep track of the Row number>
<@assign local$rowCounter 1>

<@! Loop for Rows>
<@for start=1 step=1 stop=@@local$numTableRows>

  <tr>
    <@! now loop for the cols>
    <@for start=1 step=1 stop=@@local$numCols>

    <td>
      <@! Use if empty so empty fields show correctly>
      <@ifempty "<@var local$tableArray[@@local$rowCounter,1]>">
        &nbsp;
      <@else>
        <@var local$tableArray[@@local$rowCounter,1]>
      </@if>

    </td>
    <@! End of Col loop>
    <@! Increment row Counter before reiterating>

    <@assign local$rowCounter
    <@calc"@@local$rowCounter + 1">>
    </@for>

  </tr>
</@for>
</table>

The key is to increment the counter inside the Column loop. This will keep
track of the tableArray row. Also, you must use the <@ifempty> method to
make sure the last few, possibly empty rows in the last column will display
correctly. This is a great method, because it is completely dynamic, you
just fill in the dimensions either statically or dynamically. This makes a
great tcf where you pass it an array and it kicks back a formatted table.

I simplified this a bunch from code I have written, so I hope there are no
mistakes.

-- 

Robert Garcia
BigHead Technology
21053 Devonshire Suite 206
Chatsworth, Ca  91311
Phone 818.773.8162
Fax 818.773.8164
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> From: Tom Carr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 14:18:12 -0500
> To: Multiple recipients of list witango-talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Witango-Talk:  Arranging a table vertically, not horizontally
> 
> I am wanting to take the data coming out of a search and dynamically put the
> data in an html table vertically rather than horizontally like this:
> 
> 1     6     11
> 2     7     12
> 3     8     13
> 4     9     14
> 5     10
> 
> 
> Rather than this:
> 1     2     3
> 4     5     6
> 7     8     9
> 10    11    12
> 13    14
> 
> Anyone got a snippet to get me started here?
> I used to use the <MULTICOL> tag, but that is long since unsupported...
> Trying to recreate that functionality wiTango.
> 
> Thx.
> 
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