Question:
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?
Answer:
<table><tr>
{exp:weblog:entries orderby="date" sort="desc" limit="20" weblog="{master_weblog_name}" cache="yes" refresh="60" disable="categories|custom_fields|member_data|trackbacks"}
<td>{count} {title}</td>
{if count == "4"}</tr><tr>{/if}
{if count == "8"}</tr><tr>{/if}
{if count == "12"}</tr><tr>{/if}
{if count == "16"}</tr><tr>{/if}
{/exp:weblog:entries}
</tr></table>
Alternate Option
Edited by Mark Bowen - Wednesday 10th June 2009 - 11:00PM
It would be possible to do this using some creativity with the switch= parameter, as that can take unlimited parameters.
<table>
{exp:weblog:entries weblog="default_site"}
{switch="<tr>|||"}
<td>{count} {title}</td>
{switch="|||</tr>"}
{/exp:weblog:entries}
</table>
This is not always as easy to tell exactly what is going on but for simple cases can be quite powerful. I also believe that this will not give you any empty <tr> tags if you don’t have say 16 entries as per the example above.
End of Edit
PHP Option
If you turn PHP parsing on for your template (output), you can output your entries in columns in the following way (the example showing 3 column output):
{exp:weblog:entries weblog="weblog" orderby="title" sort="asc"}
{if count =="1"}
<table>
{/if}
<?php
$columns = 3;
$i= {count}-1;
if($i % $columns == 0) {
echo "<tr>\n"; //if there is no remainder, start new row
}
?>
<td>{count}. {title}</td>
<?php
if(($i % $columns) == ($columns - 1) || ($i + 1) == {total_results}) {
//if there is a remainder of 1 or no results left, end the row
echo "</tr>\n";
}
?>
{if count == total_results}
</table>
{/if}
{/exp:weblog:entries}
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