Create Html Table Using YII Framework

Question

I am just new to YII framework and know very basics of YII like CRUD etc. I just want to create HTML Tables using YII. Following is mine VIEW code where I rendered an array $results and it contains all records that I want to be shown using HTML Table

    <?php
/* @var $this RrCimyUefDataController */
/* @var $model RrCimyUefData */

$this->breadcrumbs=array(
    'Rr Cimy Uef Datas'=>array('index'),
    'Create',

);
?>
<table>
<tr>
  <th>Serial Number</th>
  <th>Business Name</th>
  <th>Facebook</th>
  <th>Twitter</th>
</tr>


<?php
for($a=0, $b=1;$a<count($results);$a=$a+3,$b++){
    if(($a+1)<count($results) && ($a+2)<count($results)){
echo '<tr><td>'.$b.'</td>';
echo '<td>'.$results[$a].'</td>';
echo '<td>'.$results[$a+1].'</td>';
echo '<td>'.$results[$a+2].'</td></tr>';
}
}
//var_dump($results);
?>
</table>

The code is working fine but it is not done through proper YII methods. Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

You can use CGridView and CArrayDataProvider for rendering grid, but it will give you some additional functionality, there is no helper that just renders simple table in Yii. Also you can use

echo CHtml::openTag('table');
echo CHtml::openTag('tr');
echo CHtml::tag('th', array(), 'Serial Number'); // for hable head
...
echo CHtml::closeTag('tr');

echo CHtml::openTag('tr');
echo CHtml::tag('td', array(), $results[$a+1]); // for cells
echo CHtml::closeTag('tr');

If you want.