View Source: Help/RichTablePlugin

! Synopsis The Help:RichTablePlugin is a plugin that takes off from the Help:OldStyleTablePlugin. It allows a user to specify arbitrary properties of <tt><table></tt>, <tt><tr></tt> and <tt><td></tt> with a very simple markup. NEW: The plugin is now fixed so that the contents of each cell are individually processed by the ~BlockParser. This means that if everything works correctly, you can do interesting things like put *invoke plugins*, use *enumerated lists* etc within each cell! *A <tt>"-"</tt> (dash) at the start of a new line represents a new row in the table. *A <tt>"|"</tt> (vertical bar or pipe) at the start of a new line represents a cell. *Attributes for the tags *A line that starts with a <tt>"*"</tt> (star or asterisk) after a <tt>"|"</tt> is parsed for attributes for the corresponding cell. *Attributes for the table are given on line that starts with a <tt>"*"</tt>, only if the line appears before any other line except whitespace. *A line that starts with a <tt>-</tt> is always parsed for attributes since it can't have any content, unlike a cell. *Cell contents *Cell contents are processed by the ~BlockParser. *Any line that starts with a <tt>"*"</tt> anywhere other than the table attribute line is treated as normal content. *Any line that starts with whitespace is also treated as content. *Any cell line that does not have a <tt>"*"</tt> after the <tt>"|"</tt> is treated as normal content. *All content lines that follow a cell line are added to that cell. They can contain arbitrary text except the above cases. *If there is no cell in the current row, content lines are dropped silently. *The two special characters <tt>"~~"</tt> and <tt>"?>"</tt> should be escaped as <tt>"\~~"</tt> and <tt>"?\>"</tt>. I havn't discovered any other characters yet that might need to be escaped. This is required for the block parser to work. ! Bugs * The source code sucks * The plugin can't nest itself yet. Thus nested tables are currently not possible. ! Example <?plugin RichTable *border=1, cellpadding=5, bgcolor=#f0f8f8, width=75%, align=center - |* colspan=3, align=center HomePage - |* colspan=2 [http://phpwiki.sourceforge.net/demo/themes/default/images/png.png] |* rowspan=2 This cell actually has a plugin invocation inside it! <?plugin BackLinks ?\> - bgcolor=white | #One #Two | *Foo *Bar - bgcolor=cyan This line gets dropped ... no cell to contain it! |* bgcolor=#f0f0ff, align=center One paragraph Another paragraph? |* align=left This cell uses the row color | I wish this cell had a nested table inside it! :( ?> The above table is rendered from: <verbatim> <?plugin RichTable *border=1, cellpadding=5, bgcolor=#f0f8f8, width=75%, align=center - |* colspan=3, align=center HomePage - |* colspan=2 [http://phpwiki.sourceforge.net/demo/themes/default/images/png.png] |* rowspan=2 This cell actually has a plugin invocation inside it! <?plugin BackLinks ?\> - bgcolor=white | #One #Two | *Foo *Bar - bgcolor=cyan This line gets dropped ... no cell to contain it! |* bgcolor=#f0f0ff, align=center One paragraph. Another paragraph? |* align=left This cell uses the row color | I wish this cell had a nested table inside it! :( ?> </verbatim> ;<strong>Author</strong>: Sameer D. Sahasrabuddhe ;<strong>Url</strong>: http://www.it.iitb.ac.in/~sameerds/phpwiki/index.php/RichTablePlugin ------------- PhpWikiDocumentation Help:WikiPlugin