Hello,

I am building an html table based on user request. The user is presented with all possible values with a list of checkboxes. The query is built based on checked values.

In order to show appropriate number of columns, I want to evaluate the presence of the column based on the column name. To do this in my first PHP development, I used to used the PHP function mysql_field_name(). How can I achieve something similar in Joomla!, especially in Cook?

Thanks,

José

Maybe you have a look to:
http://docs.joomla.org/How_to_use_the_database_classes_in_your_script

Are you familiar with the MVC design pattern (sorry to ask, i just don't know what you already know or don't know so i can point you in the right direction) ?

veCrea, Yes, I am familiar with MVC (although it is not natural to me), and getting able to find my way in the code generated by Cook. I like the way everything is prepared with Cook and want to stay as close as possible with it. There is certainly a way to evaluate based on the third term of JHTML.
Or is there a better way?

Thanks,

I think a simple :
For using this, you must be sure the item do not contain the unexpected columns (properties of the item)

Note : you can reuse the JHtml and JDom calls as well of course.

Admin,

Yes, it does work. It will recognize the presence of the column even if it is empty.

Thanks.