Dynamic table data

Hi,

thanks for your question, and sorry for the trouble.

You could indeed use a filter hook to do something like this. Basically, create a dummy table first. Then, use the filter hook “tablepress_render_data”, in the class-render.php file, to override the dummy table content with your desired dynamic content.

Regards,
Tobias

awesome .. worked perfectly

btw, i think the hook is actually “tablepress_table_render_data”

Hi,

no problem, you are very welcome! ?? Good to hear that this helped!
And yes, the correct name is tablepress_table_render_data, of course. Good catch!

Best wishes,
Tobias

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Hello,

I really like table press. Nice work!
I am trying to use it with “Advanced custom fields”. I want to create a form(field group) with ACF and have the users input show up in a table column. Example: field: “Select year of birth” selection: “2020”
The field group will be accessed through the admin “Add new post page”.
What is the best way to achieve this?

Winston.

P.S. I’ve already created the field group with ACF. The table press part is where i need guidance.

thanks
winston.

Hi,

thanks for your post, and sorry for the trouble.

Unfortunately, I’m not sure if I’ll be able to help here. There’s no direct integration between TablePress and ACF, and as I don’t have experience with ACF, I don’t know what would be necessary.
Your best chance probably is to check out the third-party plugin from https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/acf-tablepress/ to see if that helps.

Regards,
Tobias

Sorry to bump this old thread, but I can’t find an answer elsewhere.

I am trying to do exactly locomo did, however, I don’t understand how the tablepress_table_render_data function works.

I am trying to run a query to get custom taxonomies and then populate a table with all the information under each term taxonomy.

I have a dummy table ready, how can I generate the table dynamically using tablepress_table_render_data ? Does anyone have example code using a query?

Hi,

no, sorry, I don’t have example code ready here, but some pointers:

tablepress_table_render_data is a plugin filter hook, i.e. you hook in via add_filter(tablepress_table_render_data, 'gameaddik_table_custom_taxonomies_query', 10, 3 ); for example.
Then,

function gameaddik_table_custom_taxonomies_query( $table, $orig_table, $render_options ) {
  // modify $table['data'] here, after checking $table['id']
  return $table;
}

is a function that modifies the table and performs your query.

Regards,
Tobias

Here’s a simplified version of what I did … its a company directory: 2 column table listing people’s names and their phone numbers .. I’m querying a custom post type call Person and I’m grabbing data stored in ACF fields. Hope this helps .. you’ll need to customize the WP_Query args to suit your needs.

add_filter( 'tablepress_table_render_data', 'gameaddik_tablepress_table_render_data', 10, 3 );
function gameaddik_tablepress_table_render_data( $table, $orig_table, $render_options ) {

	$table_id = 123; // replace with your table id
	$header_row = array( 'Name', 'Phone' ); // column names
	if ( $table_id == $table['id'] ) {
		$data = array();
		$data[] = $header_row;
		$data = array_merge( $data, gameaddik_generate_table_data() );
		$table['data'] = $data;
	}

	return $table;
}

function gameaddik_generate_table_data() {

	$args = array(
  		'posts_per_page' => -1,
		'post_type' 	=> 'person',
		'post_status'	=> 'publish',
		'order'			=> 'ASC',
		'orderby'		=> 'meta_value',
		'meta_key'		=> 'last_name',
		'cache_results' => false
	);

	$data = array();

	global $wp_query;
	$wp_query = new WP_Query( $args );
	if ( $wp_query->have_posts() ) {

		while ( $wp_query->have_posts() ) {
			$wp_query->the_post();
			global $post;
			$item = array();
			$first_name = get_field( 'first_name' );
			$last_name = get_field( 'last_name' );
			$item[] = $last_name . ', ' . $first_name; // name

			$phone = get_field( 'phone' );
			$phone = ( empty($phone) ) ? '' : $phone;
			$item[] = $phone; // phone

			$data[] = $item;
		}

		wp_reset_postdata();

	}

	return $data;
}

• This reply was modified 7 years, 9 months ago by locomo.
• This reply was modified 7 years, 9 months ago by locomo.

Hi,

thanks for sharing that as well, that’s another good example!

Best wishes,
Tobias

Hi! Thank you for the example! I’ve managed to get my query to work, now I’m trying to figure out how to get the results to display in the dummy table I’ve setup.

In this example, my query fetches all posts in the review section and displays all the results in column 1. Then, for each post, I display relevant data in columns 2 to 5.

I’m having a hard time figuring out how to get the data I want to appear in the right columns.

Hi,

you will need to structure your code so that it creates a two-dimensional array again, in the same way as the current table values are stored in an array.

Regards,
Tobias

Can you give me an example of how you would generate a table with the ID = 4, that has 3 columns and 2 rows (we can use dummy data).

I just can’t seem to get the table to render.

*edit: Double post

• This reply was modified 7 years, 9 months ago by gameaddik.

Hi,

some very simple array stuff, added to the examples for the filter hook above:

$table['data'] = array(
array( "1", "2", "3" ),
array( "4", "5", "6" )
);

Regards,
Tobias