I intend to create a template that displays entry titles in a table consisting of four columns and x number of rows. Anyone know have an example of the most effective way to achieve this?

Basically, I just need to throw a “</tr><tr>” after every four entries.

Will I need to put some PHP in the template, or can this be done within EE somehow?

The only way that I can think of to do this natively would be to use 4 instances of {exp:weblog:entries}, using offsets to get the right things into the right row.

Just out of curiosity, though, did you want:

Entry 1 entry 2 entry 3 entry 4
entry 5 entry 6 entry 7 entry 8
Etc

Or

Entry 1 entry 5
Entry 2 entry 6
Entry 3 entry 7
Entry 4 entry 8
etc

?

Mm- could probably use a little php-

PHP parsed on output.  If it treats count as numeric, should work.

Ugh, I keep forgetting that the count variable was added.  I bet you could do this, using that, without PHP…  Same theory as the PHP but using {count}?

I have a feeling something with this is a bit off.  The problem is needing to do this 3 times, you might need to encapsulate the custom fields in it, too… so rob1’s code may be better to use for this.

Is EE capable of simple math operations per chance?

All I’d need would be something like this:

Man, that’d be sweet! :D

To answer your question, Lisa - I wish to present the entries as such:

01 02 03 04
05 06 07 08
etc

You can use ==, less than and greater than, but no maths.  There is a list of operators in global conditional variables.

Lisa - 03 November 2005 01:15 PM

You can use ==, less than and greater than, but no maths.  There is a list of operators in global conditional variables.

Oh well - it was wishful thinking. In any case, you guys totally answered my question. I’ll just drop in some PHP. I just like to rule out every other option before I monkey with PHP. Thanks for your help!

I thought for a moment it would fit in an EE conditional as well, but it doesn’t look like it.  Would make a cool feature request!

After realizing that the {count} value isn’t cumulative, and it starts counting anew with each page, I decided that Lisa’s suggestion was perfectly reasonable considering I was limiting each page to twenty entries. Here’s what it looks like, and it works like a charm.

Although I would’ve liked to condense the count condition to something like this {if count == “4|8|12|16”}{/if}, but that didn’t fly. That’s just me nit-picking.

If the count value was a cumulative representation of all of the entries, I would’ve needed to perform that modulus operation via PHP as described above by Robin.

Thanks for your help, Jill and Robin. I owe you beers.

Thanks cshontz, Lisa, rob1 for this coce.
I’ll try it out.
Great place here.

Wiki’d.  If someone wants to make the question more generic, go ahead.  I was having trouble re-phrasing it. =)

I just wanted to let people know I made my first update to the Wiki (on ANY subject) about this - I added a PHP solution, which I suppose I might as well put here as well.

Link to Wiki Article for using PHP to display results in columns

This example shows 3-column output: