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goldfish
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 Posted - 14 October 2003 : 06:50:25
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I have a lot of users who need to put table data into their posts (usually just numerical data as below):-
Year 1991 1992 1993
Quantity1 2 3 4
Quantity2 4 5 6
Anyone have any idea how you can do this? I'm assuming that a MOD is required, but not altogether sure how to go about it... as an alternative, from an admin's perspective, is there anyway I can enable use of <table>...</table> HTML within my forum (it's on an intranet, and there is no security threat)....
Any ideas gratefully received...
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The Impact
Junior Member
Australia
398 Posts |
Posted - 14 October 2003 : 07:49:41
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I think the Rich Text Editor MOD was going to have this feature but it's still in development. Dave could give you most info about that.
Try doing a search, wasn't someone talking about tables in forums not long ago. My mind has gone blank ! |
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laser
Advanced Member
Australia
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Posted - 14 October 2003 : 07:56:38
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| code tags are the only way to do it at the moment. I get a lot of tabular data as well (copied from other sites), and a code tag usually does the trick |
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dayve
Forum Moderator
USA
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Posted - 14 October 2003 : 10:29:37
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| I've thought about incorporating table tags but then came to a realization that an improperly used table can really throw your forum out of whack. |
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Roland
Advanced Member
Netherlands
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Posted - 14 October 2003 : 10:39:05
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Originally posted by dayve
I've thought about incorporating table tags but then came to a realization that an improperly used table can really throw your forum out of whack.
Absolutely right, but some people are willing to take that risk.
http://forum.snitz.com/forum/topic.asp?ARCHIVE=true&TOPIC_ID=43110&SearchTerms=,table,tags,forum,code will show you how to add forum code tags for adding tables to your posts, though basic HTML knowledge on how to nest the tags is necessary. |
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goldfish
New Member
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Posted - 15 October 2003 : 13:11:32
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Thanks for that. I think I will give it a go on a dummy site and see what happens. It's probably doable for people to save a table from word as HTML, and then find/replace on <> with [] and then cut and paste, and I think that's the only way I can do it.
The current 'print screen', crop, save to a server, include link, is a but complex, though I might see if I can recommend the 'code' route too.
Thanks for your time! 
Simon
[EDIT]Frutzle, on the link you provided, someone asked whether the table command could be restricted to moderators or admins.... presumably that would be possible by sticking the code that detects user level around the new code added to inc_func_common? Or am I looking at this over simplistically....? |
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gelliott
Junior Member
USA
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Posted - 22 October 2003 : 13:17:55
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| Regarding the potential havoc the table tags could create - you could create a function which simply enforces the pairing of the table tags. For example, it searches to find if a [table] tag exists and, if so, searches to find if a [/table] tag exists. If not found, it could insert the [/table] after the last table-related tags it does find. Likewise, it could step through the string between these two tags to insert missing [/tr] and [/td] tags where necessary. That ought to help make it more fool-proof and shouldn't be that hard to code... just a bunch of nested loops I would think... then just run this function on the message string prior to the tags being converted. |
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cladon
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