HTML-Table - Changes

Revision history for Perl extension HTML::Table.

2.08a 23 June 2008

Fixed outputing row class attribute twice. Request and fix from Reinhard Mutz

2.08 10 April 2008

Added delRow and delSectionRow methods. Request from Kyle Davenport <kyle.davenport at fmr.com>
Fixed error in getTable, which output the wrong section attributes. Request and fix from Colin Fine <colin.fine at pace.co.uk>
Added getSection method to modularize the creation of Section HTML.
Created new set of methods which apply Cell attributes across a row. This is to make a clear distinction from those methods that set row attributes (tr). Suggest by Colin Fine <colin.fine at pace.co.uk>

2.07b

          05 February 2008
        - Fixed error in setSectionRowWidth.
          Request from Ravi Kondamuru <ravikondamuru at gmail.com>

2.07a

          04 February 2008
        - Changed status from beta to full.
        - Fixed error in setCellHeight.
          Request from Ravi Kondamuru <ravikondamuru at gmail.com>

2.07-b2

          09 October 2007
        - Removed text output when empty table is printed.
          Request from Erik Tank <erik at atjeu.com>

2.07-b1

          17 September 2007
        - Changed order of output for table sections, to comply with the HTML 4.01 standard.

2.07-beta

          13 September 2007
        - Added THEAD, TFOOT and TBODY sections.
          Request from Miguel Santinho <msantinho at simplicidade.com>.
          
          There are now methods that take a section and section number as parameters.
          ie. setSectionCell ( 'tbody', 0, 2, 3, 'Cell 2,3'); 
          
          Existing methods default to working on the first tbody section, for backwards 
          compatibility.
          
          You can have only one each of tfoot and thead sections, but multiple tbody sections.

2.06

          4 June 2007
        - Added patch for even/odd row class support, supplied by Chris Weyl
          Thanks to Chris Weyl <cweyl at alumni.drew.edu> for this patch.

2.05

          15 March 2007
        - Fixed code so that all HTML tags and attributes are in lower case.

2.04

          23 January 2006
        - AUTOLOAD method was making the module sliently ignore calls to invalid
          methods.
          Thanks to Gordon Lack <gml4410 at ggr.co.uk> for the fix.

2.03

6 December 2005

Added get methods for Style attributes. Thanks to Douglas Riordan <doug.riordan at gmail.com> for this.

2.02

18 March 2004

Changed the history section in the POD to add the original author's consent for the adoption of the module by Anthony Peacock. Thanks to Stacy Lacey <stacy-lacy at computer.org> for this.
Beta testing over, promote this version to production.

2.02-beta

          18 Feb 2004
        - Bug in getTable method, when using row attributes.  
          Thanks to Piotr Kodizis <Piotr.Kodzis at inteligo.pl> for bug report and fix

2.01-beta

          19 Nov 2003
        - Bug in sort routine caused by change to new data structure.  
          Thanks to Brad Rubenstein <Brad at bradrubenstein.com> for bug report and fix

2.00-beta

          24 Oct 2003
        - First beta test version of the 2.xx strand.  This version introduces a 
          new internal representation for the table data and attributes which 
          should make maintenance and development much easier.

1.20 22 Oct 2003

Changed setRowVAlign to set the attribute in the TR tag instead of in each TD tag. Fixed by Anthony Peacock <a.peacock at chime.ucl.ac.uk>
Changed setRowNoWrap to set the attribute in the TR tag instead of in each TD tag. Fixed by Anthony Peacock <a.peacock at chime.ucl.ac.uk>
Changed all of the set* methods to accept -1 as a col or row reference. Where -1 is used, the method will work on the last row or col. Fixed by Anthony Peacock <a.peacock at chime.ucl.ac.uk>
Updated the documentation to include the setLast methods (added July 2002!) and the -1 col/row parameter change. Fixed by Anthony Peacock <a.peacock at chime.ucl.ac.uk>

1.19 22 Aug 2003

Added MIDDLE and BASELINE parameters to setCellVAlign.
Thanks to Alejandro Juarez <alex at BSDCoders.Org> for adding this

1.18a 9 May 2003

Fixed bug in new method, where specifying -rows and -head or -data caused unexpected behaviour.
Thanks to Tom Brown <rvvs30 at email.sps.mot.com> for finding this

1.18 6 May 2003

Improved sort method.
Thanks to David Link <dvlink at yahoo.com> for this addition

1.17 2 September 2002

Added the 'head' parameter to the new method. Thanks to Tommi Maekitalo <t.maekitalo at epgmbh.de> for this addition
Added the ability to initialise the table from an array ref to the new method. Thanks to Tommi Maekitalo <t.maekitalo at epgmbh.de> for this addition

1.16 22 July 2002

Method setCellSpan was documented but not implemented. Thanks to David Link <dvlink at yahoo.com> for finding this
Added methods setClass|setCellClass|setRowClass|setColClass. Thanks to Al Tobey <albert.tobey at priority-health.com> for suggesting this
Added method sort. Sorts a table by the values of a specified column. Sort can be numeric or alphanumeric, ascending or descending. Thanks to David Link <dvlink at yahoo.com> for this addition
Added versions of the setCell|Row|Col methods, setLastCell|Row|Col. These automatically apply the method to the last Cell|Row|Col in the table. Thanks to Paul Vernaza <vernaza at stwing.upenn.edu> for this addition
Added quotes around caption style parameter. Thanks to Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta at iki.fi> for fixing this
Changed the <br> tag to <br /> in _getTableHashValues. Thanks to Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta at iki.fi> for fixing this

1.15 6 March 2002

Method setStyle missing although documented. Thanks to Hendrik Frenzel <hfrenzel at scunc.net> for finding this

1.14 27 Feb 2002

Spurious double quote in the output after user defined table attributes Thanks to Benjamin Longuet <longuet at ill.fr> for fixing this
Table align wasn't working Thanks to Benjamin Longuet <longuet at ill.fr> for fixing this
setColHeight was actually setting the column width Thanks to Benjamin Longuet <longuet at ill.fr> for fixing this
setColAttr was documented but didn't actually exist Thanks to Benjamin Longuet <longuet at ill.fr> for fixing this

1.13 10 Jan 2002

Added methods to set the style attribute of tables, rows, cols and cells Thanks to Arno Teunisse <Arno.Teunisse at Simac.nl> for this modification
setRowBGColor and setRowAlign are now more efficient Thanks to Arno Teunisse <Arno.Teunisse at Simac.nl> for this modification
Added method to set the rules and align attributes for tables Thanks to Arno Teunisse <Arno.Teunisse at Simac.nl> for this modification

1.12a 24 Oct 2001

Fixed small bug in attribute quotiung code, that showed up with spanned cells.

1.12 23 Oct 2001

Changed isinteger to isvalidnum. Thanks to Terrence Brown <terrence at terrencebrown.com> for this modification
Changed faulty behaviour of numeric parameters to the new method. They where treating a value of 0 as false, and using the default value. Thanks to Terrence Brown <terrence at terrencebrown.com> for this modification
Changed all tags and attributes to print in lowercase. Thanks to Terrence Brown <terrence at terrencebrown.com> for this modification
All attribute values are now surounded by quotes. Thanks to Terrence Brown <terrence at terrencebrown.com> for this modification
Small documentation changes.

1.11 10 Aug 2001

getTable was returning 0 (zero) for an empty table, now just plain returns. Suggested by Adrian Bridgett <adrian at dyadic.com>

1.10 06 Aug 2001

Added getTableRows and getTableCols. Suggested by Joerg Jaspert <joerg at goliathbbs.dnsalias.net>

1.09 23 May 2001

Fixed bug in setRowHeight, which was mistakenly setting the width. Thanks to Rodger Allen <r.allen at awayweb.com> for pointing this out

1.08 15 May 2001

Fixed bug in autoGrow method, that failed to switch off autoGrow when called with the integer 0.

1.07d 15 May 2001

Fixed minor bug in setCaption that issued unwarrented warnings under use warnings, if the optional second parameter was missing.

1.07c 15 May 2001

Fixed bug in setCellRowSpan and setCellColSpan, with 'autogrow' enabled. This failed to properly autogrow the table if a span went outside the current table limits. Thanks to Mike Laufer <mikepl at nortelnetworks.com> for pointing this out

1.07b 7 March 2001

Fixed bug in getTable method, not outputing cell contents of '0'. Thanks to Venkataramana Mokkapati <mvr707 at hotmail.com> for pointing this out

1.07a 1 March 2001

Fixed bug in new method, rows and cols parameters were not being accepted

1.07 23 February 2001

Some general tidying up of both the documentation and code
Added methods setCellFormat, setRowFormat and setColFormat. These set cell formatting strings that will be appended and prepended to the cell contents.
Created Row and Col versions of all relevant methods, this makes the interface more consistent.

1.06 13 February 2001

Some general tidying up of both the documentation and code
Method setCell will now automatically increase the table size if the row/col parameters are larger than the current table size (this can be turned off using the autoGrow method) **** NB This new behaviour may break existing code **** Thanks to John Stumbles <john at uk.stumbles.org> for this modification.
New method autoGrow used to control the behaviour of the setCell method Thanks to John Stumbles <john at uk.stumbles.org> for this modification.
Error checking for parameters is now case-independent Thanks to John Stumbles <john at uk.stumbles.org> for this suggestion.
All error messages now end in a newline (\n) Thanks to John Stumbles <john at uk.stumbles.org> for this modification.
New method setColBGColor Thanks to Jay Flaherty <fty at mediapulse.com> for this modification.
New methods setCellHead, setColHead Thanks to Jay Flaherty <fty at mediapulse.com> for this modification.
The new method can now take a hash of parameters (see the documentation) Thanks to Jay Flaherty <fty at mediapulse.com> for this modification.

1.05a 8 February 2001

Small corection to the documentation. Thanks to John Stumbles <j.d.stumbles at reading.ac.uk> for pointing this out.

1.05 6 February 2001

Fix to prevent warnings if cell content is undefined. Thanks to Boris Zentner <boris at m2b.de> for this suggestion.
Fix to allow cell widths to be defined using percentage values. Thanks to Boris Zentner <boris at m2b.de> for this suggestion.

1.04a 4 December 2000

Changed documentation, added reference to Japanese translation.

1.04 17 August 2000

Minor change to remove 'uninitialized variable' warning when working with -w

1.03 13 July 2000

Overloaded the "" string interpolation operator onto the getTable method. This alows the use of the object reference 'in-line' in strings. Thanks to "B. K. Oxley" <binkley at bigfoot.com> for this suggestion.

1.02 12 July 2000

Changed setBorder, setCellPadding, setCellSpacing code to allow the attribute to take zero (0) values.

1.01 7th July 2000

Minor changes to the documentation section of Table.pm

1.00 5th July 2000

New maintainer, Anthony Peacock (a.peacock at chime.ucl.ac.uk)
Added method - getCell(row_num, col_num) - to return the contents of the specified cell as a string. (a.peacock at chime.ucl.ac.uk)

0.90 27th January 1998

original version created by Stacy Lacy