Table Helper

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Table Helper

2.3

The table helper was introduced in Symfony 2.3.

When building a console application it may be useful to display tabular data:

To display a table, use the TableHelper, set headers, rows and render:

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        $table = $this->getHelper('table');
$table
    ->setHeaders(array('ISBN', 'Title', 'Author'))
    ->setRows(array(
        array('99921-58-10-7', 'Divine Comedy', 'Dante Alighieri'),
        array('9971-5-0210-0', 'A Tale of Two Cities', 'Charles Dickens'),
        array('960-425-059-0', 'The Lord of the Rings', 'J. R. R. Tolkien'),
        array('80-902734-1-6', 'And Then There Were None', 'Agatha Christie'),
    ))
;
$table->render($output);
    