BBCode Equivalent for <Table>

[Michael Morris]

Hello everyone. I'm trying to figure out how to write a hack that allows users to construct tables. My board is one games - d20 and D&D in particular - and the users often need to display tables of varying sizes.

To date they've been told to use the code tag to and space the things out, but this a bit time consuming and frankly doesn't look nice.

I've been thinking such a tag would be similar to the {list} tag in function except that vbulletin would have to count how many items it's been given. For instance

{Table=3} would start up a table with three columsn
{*} First item, would show on row one, colum one
{*} Second item, would show on row one, colum two
{*} Third item, would show on row three, colum three
{*} Fourth item, would show on row one colum one
{/table}
If the user forgot to put in a fifth and 6th item vbulletin would put however many <td>space</td> entries that would be necessary.

Anyway, I'm gonna work on this, but I could use help if anyone has any ideals on how to do this.

[weitalia]

I found it FANTASTIC as idea,and i'm really interested in it.
But i think it'd be so much complicated,and i don't know how to do,especially to capture all those parameters [?!?!?]....

[Symbian.info]

i'm also really interested in it!

[weitalia]

So,at the end I did it
You have to add those 3 BB Codes

1st CODE

1. Add New BB Code
2. Title : Grid
3. Tag : grid
4. Replacement : <table {option} summary="">{param}</table>
5. Example : [grid="your attributes"]Table content[/grid]
6. Description : Make a Table
7. Use {option} : YES

2nd CODE

1. Add New BB Code
2. Title : Row
3. Tag : row
4. Replacement : <tr>{param}</tr>
5. Example : [row]Row cells[/row]
6. Description : Add Row
7. Use {option} : NO

3rd CODE

1. Add New BB Code
2. Title : Cell
3. Tag : cell
4. Replacement : <td {option}>{param}</td>
5. Example : [cell="your attributes"]Cell 1[/cell]
6. Description : Add Cell
7. Use {option} : YES

That's everything!! Here's an example of how use it :

[grid="cellpadding=2 cellspacing=2 border=1"][row][cell=""] Cella 1[/cell][cell=""] Cella 2[/cell][cell=""] Cella 3[/cell][/row][row][cell=""] Cella 4[/cell][cell=""] Cella 5[/cell][cell=""] Cella 6[/cell][/row][row][cell=""] Cella 7[/cell][cell=""] Cella 8[/cell][cell=""] Cella 9[/cell][/row][row][cell=""] Cella 10[/cell][cell=""] Cella 11[/cell][cell=""] Cella 12[/cell][/row][/grid]

Have fun!!!