Question

I have a situation, I wish to have 3 word in 1 table data.

For example,
one, two, three

I want four to appear below.

For example.

1. One, two, three,
2. four, five, six,
3. seven, eight, nine,
4. and so on..

How do I achieve this using table. Am trying to incorporate this in cakephp. I am using for loop to list the numbers down.

<table>
    <tbody>
        <tr>  

            <?php foreach ($professionalPassion as $us): ?>


                <td>
        <legend><?php echo $us['PassionsUser']['passion_tag'] ?></legend>

        Type: <?php echo $us['PassionsUser']['type'] ?><br/>                                 
        Description: <?php echo $us['PassionsUser']['description'] ?><br/> 
        <?php echo $this->Html->link(__('Edit', true), array('controller' => 'PassionsUsers', 'action' => 'edit_passion', $us['PassionsUser']['id'])); ?> | 
        <?php echo $this->Html->link(__('Delete', true), array('controller' => 'PassionsUsers', 'action' => 'delete', $us['PassionsUser']['id'])); ?>

    <?php endforeach; ?>
</td>
</tr>

</tbody>
</table> 

Answer 1

This is a helper function I wrote to do exactly that:

function auto_table($cells, $cols, $class = '') {
  $table = '<table' . (empty($class) ? '' : ' class="' . $class . '"') .'><tbody><tr>';

  $current_col = 1;
  foreach ($cells as $cell) {
    // Add the cell
    $table .= "<td class=\"col-$current_col\">$cell</td>";

    if ($current_col % $cols == 0) {
      $table .= '</tr><tr>';
      $current_col = 1;
    }
    else {
      $current_col++;
    }
  }

  // Clear up
  $remaining = $cols - ($current_col == 1 ? 4 : ($current_col - 1));
  for ($i = 0; $i < $remaining; $i++) {
    $table .= '<td class="col-' . $current_col++ . '">&nbsp;</td>';
  }

  $table .= '</tr></tbody></table>';

  return $table;
}

$cells will contain your array of data, $cols the number of columns for the table, and $class any class to add to the table.

UPDATE

Integrated with your code:

$cells = array();
foreach ($professionalPassion as $us) {
  $cell = 'Type: ' . $us['PassionsUser']['type'] . '<br />';
  $cell .= 'Description: ' . $us['PassionsUser']['description'] . '<br />';
  $cell .= $this->Html->link(__('Edit', true), array('controller' => 'PassionsUsers', 'action' => 'edit_passion', $us['PassionsUser']['id']));
  $cell .= ' | ';
  $cell .= $this->Html->link(__('Delete', true), array('controller' => 'PassionsUsers', 'action' => 'delete', $us['PassionsUser']['id']));
  $cells[] = $cell;
}

$html_table = auto_table($cells, 3);