Question

I am using Smarty to output an array to an HTML table. I want each row of the table to have no more than 8 items in it. If the array has more than 8 items then the code would make a new row for the overflowing items.

How can I do this? Is this clear?

Answer 1

It’s been a long time since I’ve used Smarty, but you should be able to do this like this:

<tr>
{foreach from=$items key=myId item=i name=foo}
  {if $smarty.foreach.foo.index % 8 == 0 && $smarty.foreach.foo.index > 0 }
     </tr><tr>
  {/if}
  <td>{$i.label}</td>
{/foreach}
</tr>

The modulus operator only returns 0 if the index is dividable by 8, So before every 9th item it adds a new row. We don’t want this for the first item to happend so let’s check that as well.