Any ETA on table support

[Patrick Kellum]

Just curious on how support for tables in the new markup language is going?  The define list thing is nice, but I prefer my 'headers' at the top of the table, not the side.  Also, it's more limited then the old system (no alignment for example).

[Patrick Kellum]

I was bored, so I wrote my own old-skool table markup as a plugin :)  It's not perfect (I just learned to write plug-in's a couple hours ago) and it ignores any additional markup (I can't figure out the parsing system yet) but here it is incase anyone wants it...

class WikiPlugin_Table extends WikiPlugin
{
    function getName()
    {
        return _('Table');
    }

    function getDescription()
    {
        return _('Generate an old-skool table');
    }

    function run($dbi, $argstr, $request)
    {
        $html = '<table border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1">';
        $row = '';
        $lines = explode("\n", $argstr);
        foreach ($lines as $line)
        {
            $row .= '<tr>';
            while (preg_match('/^(|+)(v*)([<>^]?)([^|]*)/', $line, $m))
            {
                $line = substr($line, strlen($m[0]));

                if (strlen($m[1]) > 1)
                {
                    $colspan = ' colspan="'.strlen($m[1]).'"';
                } else {
                    $colspan = '';
                }
                if (strlen($m[2]) > 0)
                {
                    $rowspan = ' rowspan="'.(strlen($m[2]) + 1).'"';
                } else {
                    $rowspan = '';
                }
                if (strlen(trim($m[4])) < 1)
                {
                    $m[4] = '&nbsp;';
                }

                switch ($m[3])
                {
                    case '^':
                    {
                        $align = 'center';
                        break;
                    }
                    case '>':
                    {
                        $align = 'right';
                        break;
                    }
                    default:
                    case '<':
                    {
                        $align = 'left';
                        break;
                    }
                }
                $row .= '<td align="'.$align.'"'.$colspan.$rowspan.'>'
                    .trim($m[4])
                    .'</td>'
                ;
            }
            $row .= '</tr>';
        }
        $html .= $row.'</table>';
        return HTML::raw($html);
    }
}

[Patrick Kellum]

BTW, just write your tables as before, but surrond them with the <?plugin Table ?> tag.