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The table class will automatically generate theheadings based on the table names (or you can set your own headings using the <dfn>set_heading()</dfn> function describedin the function reference below).</p><code>$this->load->library('table');<br /><br />$query = $this->db->query("SELECT * FROM my_table");<br /><br />echo $this->table->generate($query);		</code><p>Here is an example showing how you might create a table using discreet parameters:</p><code>$this->load->library('table');<br /><br />$this->table->set_heading('Name', 'Color', 'Size');<br /><br />$this->table->add_row('Fred', 'Blue', 'Small');<br />$this->table->add_row('Mary', 'Red', 'Large');<br />$this->table->add_row('John', 'Green', 'Medium');<br /><br />echo $this->table->generate();		</code><p>Here is the same example, except instead of individual parameters, arrays are used:</p><code>$this->load->library('table');<br /><br />$this->table->set_heading(array('Name', 'Color', 'Size'));<br /><br />$this->table->add_row(array('Fred', 'Blue', 'Small'));<br />$this->table->add_row(array('Mary', 'Red', 'Large'));<br />$this->table->add_row(array('John', 'Green', 'Medium'));<br /><br />echo $this->table->generate();		</code><h2>Changing the Look of Your Table</h2><p>The Table Class permits you to set a table template with which you can specify the design of your layout.  Here is the templateprototype:</p><code>$tmpl =  array (<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;'table_open'&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;=> '&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0">',<br /><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;'heading_row_start'&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;=> '&lt;tr>',<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;'heading_row_end'&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;=> '&lt;/tr>',<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;'heading_cell_start'&nbsp;&nbsp;=> '&lt;th>',<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;'heading_cell_end'&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;=> '&lt;/th>',<br /><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;'row_start'&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;=> '&lt;tr>',<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;'row_end'&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;=> '&lt;/tr>',<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;'cell_start'&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;=> '&lt;td>',<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;'cell_end'&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;=> '&lt;/td>',<br /><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;'row_alt_start'&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;=> '&lt;tr>',<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;'row_alt_end'&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;=> '&lt;/tr>',<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;'cell_alt_start'&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;=> '&lt;td>',<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;'cell_alt_end'&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;=> '&lt;/td>',<br /><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;'table_close'&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;=> '&lt;/table>'<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;);<br /><br />$this->table->set_template($tmpl);</code><p class="important"><strong>Note:</strong>&nbsp; You'll notice there are two sets of "row" blocks in the template.  These permit you to create alternating row colors or design elements that alternate with eachiteration of the row data.</p><p>You are NOT required to submit a complete template.  If you only need to change parts of the layout you can simply submit those elements.In this example, only the table opening tag is being changed:</p><code>$tmpl =  array ( 'table_open'&nbsp;&nbsp;=> '&lt;table border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="1" class="mytable">' );<br /><br />$this->table->set_template($tmpl);</code><br /><h1>Function Reference</h1><h2>$this->table->generate()</h2><p>Returns a string containing the generated table.  Accepts an optional parameter which can be an array or a database result object.</p><h2>$this->table->set_caption()</h2><p>Permits you to add a caption to the table.</p><code>$this->table->set_caption('Colors');</code><h2>$this->table->set_heading()</h2><p>Permits you to set the table heading.  You can submit an array or discreet params:</p><code>$this->table->set_heading('Name', 'Color', 'Size');</code><code>$this->table->set_heading(array('Name', 'Color', 'Size'));</code><h2>$this->table->add_row()</h2><p>Permits you to add a row to your table.  You can submit an array or discreet params:</p><code>$this->table->add_row('Blue', 'Red', 'Green');</code><code>$this->table->add_row(array('Blue', 'Red', 'Green'));</code><h2>$this->table->make_columns()</h2><p>This function takes a one-dimensional array as input and createsa multi-dimensional array with a depth equal to the number ofcolumns desired.  This allows a single array with many elements to  bedisplayed in a table that has a fixed column count.  Consider this example:</p><code>$list = array('one', 'two', 'three', 'four', 'five', 'six', 'seven', 'eight', 'nine', 'ten', 'eleven', 'twelve');<br /><br />$new_list = $this->table->make_columns($list, 3);<br /><br />$this->table->generate($new_list);<br /><br />// Generates a table with this prototype<br /><br />&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0"&gt;<br />&lt;tr&gt;<br />&lt;td&gt;one&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;two&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;three&lt;/td&gt;<br />&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;<br />&lt;td&gt;four&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;five&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;six&lt;/td&gt;<br />&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;<br />&lt;td&gt;seven&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;eight&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;nine&lt;/td&gt;<br />&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;<br />&lt;td&gt;ten&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;eleven&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;twelve&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;<br />&lt;/table&gt;</code><h2>$this->table->set_template()</h2><p>Permits you to set your template. You can submit a full or partial template.</p><code>$tmpl =  array ( 'table_open'&nbsp;&nbsp;=> '&lt;table border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="1" class="mytable">' );<br /><br />$this->table->set_template($tmpl);</code><h2>$this->table->set_empty()</h2><p>Let's you set a default value for use in any table cells that are empty.  You might, for example, set a non-breaking space:</p><code>$this->table->set_empty("&amp;nbsp;");</code><h2>$this->table->clear()</h2><p>Lets you clear the table heading and row data.  If you need to show multiple tables with different data you shouldto call this function after each table has been generated to empty the previous table information. Example:</p><code>$this->load->library('table');<br /><br />$this->table->set_heading('Name', 'Color', 'Size');<br />$this->table->add_row('Fred', 'Blue', 'Small');<br />$this->table->add_row('Mary', 'Red', 'Large');<br />$this->table->add_row('John', 'Green', 'Medium');<br /><br />echo $this->table->generate();<br /><br /><kbd>$this->table->clear();</kbd><br /><br />$this->table->set_heading('Name', 'Day', 'Delivery');<br />$this->table->add_row('Fred', 'Wednesday', 'Express');<br />$this->table->add_row('Mary', 'Monday', 'Air');<br />$this->table->add_row('John', 'Saturday', 'Overnight');<br /><br />echo $this->table->generate();</code></div><!-- END CONTENT --><div id="footer"><p>Previous Topic:&nbsp;<a href="ftp.html">&nbsp;FTP Class</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&middot;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#top">Top of Page</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&middot;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="../index.html">User Guide Home</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&middot;&nbsp;&nbsp;Next Topic:&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="image_lib.html">Image Manipulation Class</a></p><p><a href="http://www.codeigniter.com">CodeIgniter</a> &nbsp;&middot;&nbsp; Copyright &#169; 2007 &nbsp;&middot;&nbsp; <a href="http://ellislab.com/">Ellislab, Inc.</a></p></div></body></html>