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Monotoba
Posted: 06 September 2007 07:19 PM   [ Ignore ]
Joined: 2007-09-05
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Hello,

I’m brand new to code igniter and I am wondering if someone here can provide a demo of using nested loops for data presentation using the template system in ci. Here’s a template to show you what I mean.  How would I get the template engine to display data in a multidementional array containing multiple color rows containing multiple color cells?

Thanks for the help


<html>
<head>
  <title>Color Table Demo</table>
</head>

<body>

  <table>

  {color_row}
  <tr>

  {color_cell}
  <td width=“15” bgcolor=”#{color}”> <font color=”#{font_color}> {color} </font> </td>
  {/color_cell}

  </tr>
  {/color_row}

  </table>

</body>

</html>

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John_Betong
Posted: 06 September 2007 11:36 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 1 ]   [ Rating: 0 ]
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Hi Monotoba,

Is this what you mean: http://johns-jokes.com/main/debug
 

//==================================================
    function debug() { // default for controller without parameters
      // & remove dodgy html characters
    $this->load->helper('text'); // ascii_to_entities(...) 
    $data =array();

    // get data from jokes table    
    $sql = 'select * from jokes where id<=64 order by id';
    $query  = $this->db->query($sql);

    // set htmltitle variables used in _doctype.php
    $data['htmltitle'] = 'Coloured Boxes';
    
    // view/display page
    $tmp = $this->load->view('_doctype.php', $data, true);
    echo $tmp;
    
    echo '<body>';
    echo '<h1>' .$data['htmltitle'] .'</h1>';
    echo "<div style='position:relative; width:1000px; margin:0 auto; text-align:left'>";        
    
     $ijoke = 1; 
     foreach ($query->result() as $row):
       $bkk = 'rgb(' .rand(128,256) .',' .rand(128,256) .',' .rand(128,256) .')';
       echo "<p style='float:left; width:180px; height:300px; background:$bkk; padding:0 0.6em; border:outset 8px'>";
         $title = "<span style='font-size:1.2em; color: #f00'>" .nl2br($row->title) .'</span>';
         echo anchor('joke/show/' .$ijoke++, $title );
         $joke = substr($row->memo, 0, 142);  // limit characters 
         $joke = nl2br($joke);
         echo br(2) .$joke;
          echo '</p>';
     endforeach; 
    echo '</div>';
    echo '</body></html>';  
    } 
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Monotoba
Posted: 06 September 2007 11:44 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 2 ]   [ Rating: 0 ]
Joined: 2007-09-05
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Hi John,

This is not quite what I was looking for however, I figured it out. What I wanted was a method to pass arrays of arrays, of arrays of values and have the template parser process them in a loops. My issue turned out to be that I was resetting one of the arrays of an array of values in the wrong place. Thus erasing a whole sector of my values.

Thanks for the help though grin

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