A simple table
The basic properties of the tableselect element are #header which accepts an array of key => value pairs to generate the header from and #options, which receives an array of rows.
The basic structure looks like the following:
The tableselect element relies on the keys to match columns with the appropriate header. The element will behave like the #checkboxes type. You'll get an array of values in your submit function, with the checked ones set to nonzero so you can array_filter them to get the checked rows.
$form = array();
$header = array(
'title' => t('Title'),
'author' => t('Author'),
);
$query = "SELECT n.nid, n.title, u.name FROM {node} n INNER JOIN {users} u ON n.uid = u.uid";
$result = pager_query(db_rewrite_sql($query));
while($partial_node = db_fetch_object($result)) {
$options[$partial_node->nid] = array(
'title' => check_plain($partial_node->title),
'author' => check_plain($partial_node->name),
);
}
if (!empty($options)) {
$form['nodes'] = array(
'#type' => 'tableselect',
'#header' => $header,
'#options' => $options,
);
$form['pager'] = array('#value' => theme('pager'));
$form['submit'] = array(
'#type' => 'submit',
'#value' => t('Submit'),
);
}
return $form;
}
Which results in:
