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Henry David
Henry David

Reputation: 441

Building HTML table from JSON object via php URL

I'm having issues building an html table with a JSON object that I've already got generated by a php page.

I'm building my JSON object from a spreadsheet where it includes: Fname, Lname, Ext, Rm.

My json.php webpage gives me this result:

[{"fName":"John","lName":"Doe","Ext":"#666","Rm":"C3","id":0},{"fName":"Abraham","lName":"Lincoln","Ext":"#917","Rm":"C1","id":1}]

So now I'm trying to build an html page filling a table with this data using jquery. Here's what I've got for my index.html:

<html>
<head>
    <script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.js" type="text/javascript">
    </script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="stuff"
<table id="userdata" border="1">
    <thead>
        <th>First Name</th>
        <th>Last Name</th>
        <th>Ext</th>
        <th>Room</th>
    </thead>
    <tbody></tbody>
</table>
</div>

<script>
$(document).ready(function(){
    $("#userdata tbody").html("");
    $.getJSON("json.php", function(data){
            $.each(data.members, function(i,user){
                var tblRow =
                    "<tr>"
                    +"<td>"+user.fName+"</td>"
                    +"<td>"+user.lName+"</td>"
                    +"<td>"+user.Ext+"</td>"
                    +"<td>"+user.Rm+"</td>"
                    +"</tr>"
                $(tblRow).appendTo("#userdata tbody");
            });
        }
    );
});
</script>

EDIT: Found my solution with the following code:

<?php
$json = file_get_contents('collab.json.php');
$data = json_decode($json,true);

echo '<table>';
echo '<tr><th>Username</th><th>Period</th><th>Room</th><th>Next?</th></tr>';

$n = 0;

foreach ($data as $key => $jsons) {
    foreach ($jsons as $key => $value) {
        echo '<tr>';
    echo '<td>'.$data[$n]['username'].'</td>';
    echo '<td>'.$data[$n]['period'].'</td>';
    echo '<td>'.$data[$n]['Rm'].'</td>';
    echo '<td>'.$data[$n]['next'].'</td>';
    echo '</tr>';

    $n++;
} 
}
echo '</table>';
?>

</html>

Upvotes: 3

Views: 5490

Answers (2)

Shan Robertson
Shan Robertson

Reputation: 2742

usually in these situations, I add the items to an array and then join and append the array. so for example, in your each.

tblRow = [
  '<tr>',
    '<td>' + user.fName + '</td>',
    '<td>' + user.lName + '</td>',
    '<td>' + user.Ext + '</td>',
    '<td>' + user.Rm + '</td>',
  '</tr>',
].join('\n');

myArray.push(tblRow);

myArray being an empty array outside of your loop, and then after the loop append the array content to your table.

Hope this helps!

Upvotes: 0

Tobias Golbs
Tobias Golbs

Reputation: 4616

Assuming that the json you provided is the only output from your json.php you have to slightly change this line:

$.each(data.members, function(i,user){

To this:

$.each(data, function(i,user){

Upvotes: 1

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