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<pre>[% USE table(list, rows=n, cols=n, overlap=n, pad=0) %]
[% FOREACH item IN table.row(n) %]
[% item %]
[% END %]
[% FOREACH item IN table.col(n) %]
[% item %]
[% END %]
[% FOREACH row IN table.rows %]
[% FOREACH item IN row %]
[% item %]
[% END %]
[% END %]
[% FOREACH col IN table.cols %]
[% col.first %] - [% col.last %] ([% col.size %] entries)
[% END %]</pre>
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<p>
The <code>Table</code> plugin allows you to format a list of data items
into a virtual table. When you create a <code>Table</code> plugin via the
<code>USE</code> directive, simply pass a list reference as the first
parameter and then specify a fixed number of rows or columns.
</p>
<pre>[% USE Table(list, rows=5) %]
[% USE table(list, cols=5) %]</pre>
<p>
The <code>Table</code> plugin name can also be specified in lower case as
shown in the second example above. You can also specify an alternative
variable name for the plugin as per regular Template Toolkit syntax.
</p>
<pre>[% USE mydata = table(list, rows=5) %]</pre>
<p>
The plugin then presents a table based view on the data set. The data
isn't actually reorganised in any way but is available via the
<code>row()</code>, <code>col()</code>, <code>rows()</code> and
<code>cols()</code> as if formatted into a simple two dimensional table
of <code>n</code> rows x <code>n</code> columns.
</p>
<p>
So if we had a sample <code>alphabet</code> list contained the letters
'<code>a</code>' to '<code>z</code>', the above <code>USE</code>
directives would create plugins that represented the following views of
the alphabet.
</p>
<pre>[% USE table(alphabet, ... %]
rows=5 cols=5
a f k p u z a g m s y
b g l q v b h n t z
c h m r w c i o u
d i n s x d j p v
e j o t y e k q w
f l r x</pre>
<p>
We can request a particular row or column using the <code>row()</code>
and <code>col()</code> methods.
</p>
<pre>[% USE table(alphabet, rows=5) %]
[% FOREACH item = table.row(0) %]
# [% item %] set to each of [ a f k p u z ] in turn
[% END %]
[% FOREACH item = table.col(2) %]
# [% item %] set to each of [ m n o p q r ] in turn
[% END %]</pre>
<p>
Data in rows is returned from left to right, columns from top to bottom.
The first row/column is 0. By default, rows or columns that contain empty
values will be padded with the undefined value to fill it to the same
size as all other rows or columns.
</p>
<p>
For example, the last row (row 4) in the first example would contain the
values <code>[ e j o t y undef ]</code>. The Template Toolkit will safely
accept these undefined values and print a empty string. You can also use
the IF directive to test if the value is set.
</p>
<pre> [% FOREACH item = table.row(4) %]
[% IF item %]
Item: [% item %]
[% END %]
[% END %]</pre>
<p>
You can explicitly disable the <code>pad</code> option when creating the
plugin to returned shortened rows/columns where the data is empty.
</p>
<pre> [% USE table(alphabet, cols=5, pad=0) %]
[% FOREACH item = table.col(4) %]
# [% item %] set to each of 'y z'
[% END %]</pre>
<p>
The <code>rows()</code> method returns all rows/columns in the table as a
reference to a list of rows (themselves list references). The
<code>row()</code> methods when called without any arguments calls
<code>rows()</code> to return all rows in the table.
</p>
<p>
Ditto for <code>cols()</code> and <code>col()</code>.
</p>
<pre>[% USE table(alphabet, cols=5) %]
[% FOREACH row = table.rows %]
[% FOREACH item = row %]
[% item %]
[% END %]
[% END %]</pre>
<p>
The Template Toolkit provides the <code>first</code>, <code>last</code>
and <code>size</code> virtual methods that can be called on list
references to return the first/last entry or the number of entries in a
list. The following example shows how we might use this to provide an
alphabetical index split into 3 even parts.
</p>
<pre>[% USE table(alphabet, cols=3, pad=0) %]
[% FOREACH group = table.col %]
[ [% group.first %] - [% group.last %] ([% group.size %] letters) ]
[% END %]</pre>
<p>
This produces the following output:
</p>
<pre>[ a - i (9 letters) ]
[ j - r (9 letters) ]
[ s - z (8 letters) ]</pre>
<p>
We can also use the general purpose <code>join</code> virtual method
which joins the items of the list using the connecting string specified.
</p>
<pre>[% USE table(alphabet, cols=5) %]
[% FOREACH row = table.rows %]
[% row.join(' - ') %]
[% END %]</pre>
<p>
Data in the table is ordered downwards rather than across but can easily
be transformed on output. For example, to format our data in 5 columns
with data ordered across rather than down, we specify <code>rows=5</code>
to order the data as such:
</p>
<pre>a f . .
b g .
c h
d i
e j</pre>
<p>
and then iterate down through each column (a-e, f-j, etc.) printing the
data across.
</p>
<pre>a b c d e
f g h i j
. .
.</pre>
<p>
Example code to do so would be much like the following:
</p>
<pre>[% USE table(alphabet, rows=3) %]
[% FOREACH cols = table.cols %]
[% FOREACH item = cols %]
[% item %]
[% END %]
[% END %]</pre>
<p>
Output:
</p>
<pre>a b c
d e f
g h i
j . .
.</pre>
<p>
In addition to a list reference, the <code>Table</code> plugin
constructor may be passed a reference to a <a href="../../../modules/Template/Iterator.html">Template::Iterator</a> object or
subclass thereof. The <a href="../../../modules/Template/Iterator.html">Template::Iterator</a> <a href="../../../modules/Template/Iterator.html#method_get_all">get_all()</a> method is first called on the iterator
to return all remaining items. These are then available via the usual
Table interface.
</p>
<pre>[% USE DBI(dsn,user,pass) -%]
# query() returns an iterator
[% results = DBI.query('SELECT * FROM alphabet ORDER BY letter') %]</pre>
<pre># pass into Table plugin
[% USE table(results, rows=8 overlap=1 pad=0) -%]
[% FOREACH row = table.cols -%]
[% row.first.letter %] - [% row.last.letter %]:
[% row.join(', ') %]
[% END %]</pre>
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Copyright (C) 1996-2007 Andy Wardley. All Rights Reserved.
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This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
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