PHP add dynamically row into an existing HTML table

Question

Within a wordpress plugin, I have a PHP function which transform $file_name (a CSV file) into a table.

function displayAsTable($file_name)
{
echo '<table>';     
ini_set('auto_detect_line_endings',TRUE);
$f = fopen($file_name, "r");
while (($line = fgetcsv($f,0,",")) !== false) {
        echo '<tr>';
        echo '<td><input type="checkbox" name="addressXX" value="'.$line[2].'" name=""/></td>';
        foreach ($line as $cell) {
                echo '<td>' . htmlspecialchars($cell) . '</td>';
        }
        echo '<tr>';
}
fclose($f);
echo '</table>';
}

The problem is that I would like to add the new ROWS and COLUMNS into an existing TABLE within the same page! How could I do that easily?

netrox · Accepted Answer · 2010-11-02 17:41:49Z

3

Remove "echo <table>" and "echo </table>" and insert that function inside the existing table element. That should solve the problem because it will simply create new rows in addition to existing rows.

answered Nov 2, 2010 at 17:41

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dev-null-dweller · Accepted Answer · 2010-11-02 17:37:07Z

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I would change this function to:

function displayAsTable($file_name,$newTable = TRUE)
{
    if($newTable){ echo '<table>'; }
    //rest of code without last echo
    if($newTable){ echo '</table>'; }
}

And call it like: displayAsTable('rowstoappend.csv',false);

answered Nov 2, 2010 at 17:37

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