Making tables with Ditto possible ?

Hi, I am trying to build a table with Ditto (using RC3 in this case). The table should just list pagetitles of documents in column 1and 2 tvs in column 2 and 3. I tried to do this by providing Ditto with 3 templates.



This works just fine except when there is only 1 item in the list, because then only the "tpl" template is used, so I am missing the <table> tags. Is there a way to make a table in this way with Ditto, or should I find a complete other way (hints appreciated ) ?

BTW the list of documents can also be empty so I can’t just add the <table> tags to the template and put the Ditto call in between.

Use Ditto 2 (RC3 until Thursday) and create a config file with
Then add &config=`configName`to your Ditto call and volia!

Hi,

I’m not certain if these params will be in the final version of ditto 2

Open the formats/html.format.inc.php

and add
$header="<table>";
$footer="</table>";

Then edit the snippet code of ditto

around line 941

Change

$output = $header.$noResults.$footer;

to

$output = $noResults;

That should do the trick

:-)

Edit: Mark has been faster than me


EDIT 2: To readers follow the Mark advice and do not edit the format file

Very nice, thanks for the fast reply. I was already wondering what the &config parameter would do

Note that the exact text to put in the config file is as below (so including the php tags)

Just a small notE on this. It works fine for the case when there is 1 or more documents. It also is a lot easier to maintain (I don’t have to keep tplFirst and tplLast), but when the list is empty I now get . For now I just changed the no documents message to "<tr><td>No documents found</td></tr>" which at least is valid code, but I was wondering if there is a way to not have the header and footer when there are no results?

Then edit the snippet code of ditto

around line 941

Change

$output = $header.$noResults.$footer;

to

$output = $noResults;

That should do the trick

:-)

:-)

EDIT: these changes won’t be enough in fact

If the determineIDs function has results the output will have the header and footer added anyway

Hey Guys sorry my English is not so good.

Hey, I would like to implement Ditto

Pagination

table header
table row > Item1 > Item2
table row > Item3 > Item4
..
table End

Pagintation

Only Ditto may not differ when the 2nd item.
Because danch he must indeed close the series, and then the new fixation.

How could I fix it?

You could try getting the same effect with floated divs. Create a container div the width of the "table", then have the Ditto template create divs and in your CSS have them be set to a width of about half of your container’s width, a specified height, and floated left. That way it will float two per row and drop the next set of two down to the next row.

If you really want tables, start it like this:

Then have your tpl chunk

then your tplAlt chunk

If you don’t have an even number of items it will not have the final </tr> but it should work anyway; it just won’t validate in that case. You could also put the last </tr> after the snippet call, along with the closing </table> tags, and in that case you’d have duplicate </tr> tags if you do have an even number. Again, it should still work, it just won’t validate. You might be able to use phx somehow to work this out.

So, I have it at the time, only the content is not always the same high, and with tables, I have it better because under control. Currently there with a big confused Divs

Super thats OK