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June 9, 2006

A Radio List in a table for CakePHP

CakePHP — Sarah King

I wanted to present a range of choices in a nicely formatted table and couldn't see helper to do the job - so this is my first snippet for Cake PHP. I doubt it's perfectly cake (for instance I do the header row myself rather than using the html helper, and I concatenate a string rather than building an array)

In this instance I added the function radioTable to a helper called "fed" and gave it the standard model and field variables.

To call it I just use

PLAIN TEXT

PHP:

echo $fed->radioTable('Call/mtype', array('','', 'Joining Fee', 'Annual Fee'), $mtypevals);

where the second parameter is the nice labels for my table.

PLAIN TEXT

PHP:

function radioTable($fieldName, $headers, $options, $htmlAttributes=null,$return=false)
{
$this->setFormTag($fieldName);
$value = (isset($htmlAttributes['value']))? $htmlAttributes['value']: $this->Html->tagValue($fieldName);
$out = '<table><tbody>';
if (is_array($headers))
{
$out .= '<tr>';
foreach($headers as $th) $out .= "<th>{$th}</th>\n";
$out .= '</tr>';
}
$thisTag = "<tr><td>\n{$this->Html->tags['radio']}\n</td>\n";
foreach ($options as $holder)
{
if (count($holder)>1)
{
$thisItem = $thisHolder = array();
foreach($holder as $toMerge) $thisItem = array_merge($thisItem, $toMerge);
$thisHolder[] = $thisItem;
}
else $thisHolder = $holder;
foreach ($thisHolder as $item)
{
$keys = array_keys($item);
if (is_array($item[$keys[0]]))
{
$thisItem = array();
foreach($item as $toMerge) array_merge($thisItem, $toMerge);
// will have changed so need to rework
$keys = array_keys($thisItem);
}
else $thisItem = $item;
$optValue = $thisItem[$keys[0]];
$optionsHere = array('value' => $optValue);
$optValue==$value? $optionsHere['checked'] = 'checked': null;
$parsedOptions = $this->Html->parseHtmlOptions(array_merge($htmlAttributes, $optionsHere), null, '', ' ');
$individualTagName = "{$this->field}_{$optValue}";
$out .= sprintf($thisTag, $this->model, $this->field, $individualTagName, $parsedOptions, '');
$cnt = count($item);
//start on the second element in the array
for($i=1; $i <$cnt; $i++) $out .= "<td><label for='{$individualTagName}'>{$item[$keys[$i]]}</label>\n";
$out .= '</tr>';
}
}
$out .= '</tbody></table>';
return $this->output($out? $out: null, $return);
}//radioTable

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1 Comment »

how you use this example I can not set it up

Comment by isaac — July 3, 2006 @ 9:17 am

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