On Dec 11, 2014, at 4:32 PM, Ken Irwin wrote:

> Hi folks,
> 
> I'm hoping to find a PHP class that designed to display data in tables, preferably able to do two things:
> 1. Swap the x- and y-axis, so you could arbitrarily show the table with y=Puppies, x=Kittens or y=Kittens,x=Puppies
> 2. Display the table either using plain text columns or formatted html
> 
> I feel confident that in a world of 7 billion people, someone must have wanted this before.


There's much more work being done in javascript tables these days than in backend software.

Unfortunately, I've never found a good matrix to compare features between the various 'data table' or 'data grid' implementations.

I did start evaluating a lot a while back, but the problem is that you have go go through them all to figure out what the different features might be, and then go back through a second time to see which ones might implement those features.

The second problem is that some are implemented as part of a given JS framework (eg, ExtJS), while other toolkits might have a dozen different 'data table' implementations (eg, jQuery).

-Joe


ps.  and as this wasn't a feature that I was looking for, this wasn't something that I tracked when I did my analysis.  I was looking for things like scaling to a thousand rows w/ 20 columns, rearranging/hiding columns, etc.