tabular display : not very good , better methods to display results !

Posted Wed, 06/25/2008 - 01:09 by eerpini

i agree tabular results display is very good , but then i hate it when the user_relationships modules displays even the users in a tabular form , .. there is a better way you could display the users, ... and if the user pictures are enabled , then even the pictures could be displayed , ... it looks so much better than the tabula display , ... here is part of a module i wrote which uses this type of display , :

                        $output .= "<table align='center'><tr><td width = 15%>".roles_display_get_picture($display_user)."</td>";
                        $output .= "<td width= 60% >".theme('username',$display_user)."<br>";
                        $output .= "</td></tr></table>";

where roles_display_get_picture is just another modification of theme_user_picture(), ... the function is as follows :

function roles_display_get_picture($account) {
  if (variable_get('user_pictures', 0)) {
    if ($account->picture && file_exists($account->picture)) {
      $picture = file_create_url($account->picture);
    }
    else if (variable_get('user_picture_default', '')) {
      $picture = variable_get('user_picture_default', '');
    }

    if (isset($picture)) {
      $alt = t("@user's picture", array('@user' => $account->name ? $account->name : variable_get('anonymous', t('Anonymous'))));
      $picture = theme('image', $picture, $alt, $alt, '', FALSE);
      if (!empty($account->uid) && user_access('access user profiles')) {
        $picture = l($picture, "user/$account->uid", array('title' => t('View user profile.')), NULL, NULL, FALSE, TRUE);
      }

      return "<div align='left'>".$picture."</div>";
    }
  }
}

, now the need for use of tables in the markup is that the picture be displayed beside the text details , ...... try it out !!