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Part III: Using PHP in Practice
Method Description
setAutoFill( $ fill , $ body ) This function tells HTML_Table to pre - populate
newly created empty table cells with a string value.
$ fill is the string to insert into empty cells when
they ’ re created. The optional $ body argument works
like its counterpart in addRow() .
toHtml() Returns the HTML markup to display the table. Call
this method once you ’ ve created your table to
retrieve the HTML for inserting into the Web page.
You can find a complete list of HTML_Table methods at http://pear.php.net/manual/en/
package.html.html-table.php .
To create a table, you first create a new HTML_Table object to store the table data and other settings, then
call various methods of that object to add data cells, format the table, and so on. When you ’ re done, call
the object ’ s toHtml() method to retrieve the markup for displaying the table.
Try It Out Displaying Fibonacci Numbers with HTML_Table
Chapter 4 featured a script that used looping to display the first few numbers of the Fibonacci
sequence. The numbers were displayed in an HTML table by outputting the HTML markup for the
table directly.
In this example, you rewrite this script to use HTML_Table to generate the markup. Save the following
script as fibonacci2.php in your document root folder.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN”
“http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd”>
<html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml” xml:lang=”en” lang=”en”>
<head>
<title>Fibonacci sequence using HTML_Table</title>
<link rel=”stylesheet” type=”text/css” href=”common.css” />
<style type=”text/css”>
th { text-align: left; background-color: #999; }
th, td { padding: 0.4em; }
tr.alt td { background: #ddd; }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h2>Fibonacci sequence using HTML_Table</h2>
<?php
require_once( “HTML/Table.php” );
$attrs = array( “cellspacing” => 0, “border” => 0, “style” => “width: 20em;
border: 1px solid #666;” );
$table = new HTML_Table( $attrs );
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