05 Table column widths in percent

See example 14

It is possible to define the widths of columns in percent of the parent frame. To achieve that you have to pass the values for the widths as strings.

// Add the table
$table = new ReportLib\TableFrame();
$body->addFrame($table);

// Add four columns to the table
$table->addColumn("frametype", "Frame type", "15.0%");
$table->addColumn("container", "Container type", "15.0%", 'C');
$table->addColumn("description", "Description", "40.0%");
$table->addColumn("number", "Number", "10.0%", 'R');

In the case of widths in percent the library always uses the full width of the parent frame as 100% to calculate the width of the columns. The code above will produce an output like this.

It uses 80% of the width of the parent frame. The advantage of defining width in percent is that you have not to adjust the width in the case of changing paper sizes or margins. You can use the attribute useFullWidth from the ReportFrame here as well. If this value is set to true the library enlarges the table to fit into the width of the parent frame (e.g., the printable width of the page). In this case the table calculates the width of the columns relative to their original size.