Moto - The Native Web Programming Language

A macro to display the contents of an SQL query as an HTML table

Contents of macro.lib

GENERIC_TABLE(query)
  $if(true)
     $do(rset=conn.query($query))
     <table bgcolor="#666666" cellpadding=1 cellspacing=0><tr><td>
     <table cellpadding=1 cellspacing=1 border=0>
        <tr bgcolor="#999999">
           $declare(int cols=rset.getColumns())
           $declare(int i)
           $for(i=0;i<cols;i++)
              <td><font color="#FFFFFF"><b>$(rset.getColumnName(i))</b></font></td>
           $endfor
        </tr>
        $while(rset.next())
           <tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
              $for(i=0;i<cols;i++)
                 <td>$(rset.getString(i))</td>
              $endfor
           </tr>
        $endwhile
     </table>
     </td></tr></table>
  $endif <br>

Example page that uses macro.lib

$use("codex.sql")
$use("codex.util")
$use("codex.http")
#readdefs("macro.lib")

<html>
  <body>

     $declare(MySQLConnection conn = new MySQLConnection("localhost","test","root",""))

     $declare(String query)
     $declare(MySQLResultSet rset)

     $GENERIC_TABLE("SELECT * FROM tblTopic")

</body>
</html>