HTML::TableTiler README File

Description

HTML::TableTiler uses a minimum HTML table as a tile to generate a complete HTML table from a bidimensional array of data. It can easily produce simple or complex graphic styled tables with minimum effort and maximum speed.

Think about the table tile as a sort of tile that automatically expands itself to contain the whole data. You can control the final look of a table by choosing either the HORIZONTAL and the VERTICAL tiling mode among: PULL, TILE and TRIM.

The main advantages to use it are:

automatic table generation Pass only a bidimensional array of data to generate a complete HTML table. No worry to decide in advance the quantity of cells (or rows) in the table.
complex graphic patterns generation without coding Just prepare a simple table tile in your preferred WYSIWYG HTML editor and let the module do the job for you.
simple to maintain You can indipendently change the table tile or the code, and everything will go as you would expect.

Installation

0. Prerequisites:
- Perl version >= 5.005
- HTML::PullParser >= 1.0
- IO::Util >= 1.2

Standard installation - from the directory where this file is located, type:

        perl Makefile.PL
        make
        make test
        make install

2. Manual installation
- if your OS does not have any 'make' support, just copy the content of the /lib dir into perl installation site dir, maintaining the same hierarchy

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2004-03-27