[Forum] Add BBCode support for [table][/table]

[Victor Sullivan]

Plus 1?

-Sully

[greenoaks]

how is this progressing ?

[ender516]

As far as I know, it isn't progressing. However, with the experience that Team CC has acquired in the course of updating the wall (to handle BBCodes and display avatars, and so on), we may now have a better chance of doing something constructive here.

[blakebowling]

As far as I know, it isn't progressing. However, with the experience that Team CC has acquired in the course of updating the wall (to handle BBCodes and display avatars, and so on), we may now have a better chance of doing something constructive here.

I submitted two different solutions (almost a year ago IIRC) and to date neither of them has been implemented.

[AndyDufresne]

As far as I know, it isn't progressing. However, with the experience that Team CC has acquired in the course of updating the wall (to handle BBCodes and display avatars, and so on), we may now have a better chance of doing something constructive here.

I submitted two different solutions (almost a year ago IIRC) and to date neither of them has been implemented.

The reason why is because they aren't as functional as we would like them to be. They add unnecessary space at the beginning of any post with a table.

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And it gets worse as you add more lines to your table, with the code blakebowling has submitted so far.


--Andy

[TheForgivenOne]

Is that Andy as a Freemium?

[patrickaa317]

:shock: Is that Andy as a Freemium?

Looks like he won himself a Conquer Cup in the test environment as well....

[isaiah40]

You can get tables and morewith this addon for phpbb!!

[ender516]

You can get tables and morewith this addon for phpbb!!

That looks really nice! Hopefully they have resolved the oddities of spacing with regard to tables that we were having.

[isaiah40]

You can get tables and morewith this addon for phpbb!!

That looks really nice! Hopefully they have resolved the oddities of spacing with regard to tables that we were having.

You mean like this? This is on phpBB prosilver theme:

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[ender516]

It's hard to tell from that example. What we had previously was extra blank lines after the table due to newlines with the [table][/table] construct. (It's fairly natural to want to type a newline after, say, [/tr], the end of row marker.) There is no leading or trailing text in the example to see how that looks, and no example of the BBCodes used.

I hope that "Cell three Row three" is just a typo in the content, and not a bug in the table handling.

[isaiah40]

It's hard to tell from that example. What we had previously was extra blank lines after the table due to newlines with the [table][/table] construct. (It's fairly natural to want to type a newline after, say, [/tr], the end of row marker.) There is no leading or trailing text in the example to see how that looks, and no example of the BBCodes used.

I hope that "Cell three Row three" is just a typo in the content, and not a bug in the table handling.

No I typed that in. I'll get a screen shot of the coding later.

[isaiah40]

Here are the screen shots:
1) Click on insert table and this comes up:

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2) You fill in how you want the table to look like and click on Insert into Message and you get this:

3) type in what you want in each cell:

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4) Click on Submit and the final product:

There are no spaces between the top of the table and the top of the post. You will also notice that there is the normal space between the bottom of the table and the regular formatted text.

[ender516]

Oh, that is gorgeous. The ability to add attributes like text alignment and border styles is something I hadn't even dreamed of. We must have this.

[AndyDufresne]

The table support is nice, but it has a lot of other features that looks like it'd get in the way. While investigating it, did you see if we could disable some functions?


--Andy

[Campin_Killer]

Would definately help for tournaments, and avoid having to take Excel screenshots

[isaiah40]

The table support is nice, but it has a lot of other features that looks like it'd get in the way. While investigating it, did you see if we could disable some functions?


--Andy

Yes! Here's a screen shot.

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[greenoaks]

The table support is nice, but it has a lot of other features that looks like it'd get in the way. While investigating it, did you see if we could disable some functions?


--Andy

isaiah40 answered your question 4 1/2 months ago.

when will this be implemented ?

[DaveH]

I wrote about the use of these codes for making tables in Issue #94 http://www.conquerclub.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=89&t=178308.

In this I wrote a simple Excel macro for forming a table of any numbers of rows and columns - I can see an update coming on!

[DaveH]

The reason why is because they aren't as functional as we would like them to be. They add unnecessary space at the beginning of any post with a table.

Click image to enlarge.

And it gets worse as you add more lines to your table, with the code blakebowling has submitted so far.

--Andy

You can get rid of the space by excluding carriage returns. i.e. create just one line of code. For instance:

Round:	Table:	Ante:	Stake:	Game:
4	1	100	400	Game 13132839
Players..	Chips..	Less Ante..	Bids..	Stake..	After
StubbsKVM	500	400	Fold	0	400
Leverpuller	1700	1600	Call	400	1200
wombat4	200	100	All In	100	0
TX AG 90	500	400	All In	400	0
blindman30	300	200	All In	200	0
GioDuce	2800	2700	Fold	0	2700
---	---	---	---	---	---
Total Before:	6000	Total:	1100	Total:	4300
Total Ante:	600	Winner:	1700	Check:	6000
---	---	---	---	---	---
Map:	Kings Court II	Esc	Chained	Yes	No

Anyway; back to the suggestion - I would certainly support it. The more you can integrate Excell into CC the better from my point of view.

[isaiah40]

I believe, and still do, that installing the upgraded phpBB BBCode is the better way to go.

[greenoaks]

I found a site that shows an example of how you can get a table rendered via bbcode using the {table}, {tr}, {td} and {th} tags. It came from BBcode.org.

http://www.bbcode.org/examples/?id=14

[ender516]

I found a site that shows an example of how you can get a table rendered via bbcode using the {table}, {tr}, {td} and {th} tags. It came from BBcode.org.

http://www.bbcode.org/examples/?id=14

Yes, that is the syntax that we want, I think, but those codes are not implemented in the version of phpBB that Conquer Club uses. I agree with isaiah40.

I believe, and still do, that installing the upgraded phpBB BBCode is the better way to go.

There may be some hiccups in behaviour when catching up to current versions of software, but generally things improve overall.

[greenoaks]

are we going to update sometime soon?