Displaying two reusable cells in tableview - Swift 3 - swift

Question

I have two custom reusable table view cells in my table view. The first cell, I would like it to be present at all times. The second cell and beyond, are returning a count that is being passed from mysql database.
// return the amount of cell numbers
func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, numberOfRowsInSection section: Int) -> Int {
return posts.count
}
// cell config
func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, cellForRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> UITableViewCell {
if indexPath.row < 1 {
let cell = tableView.dequeueReusableCell(withIdentifier: "Cell", for: indexPath) as! InfoCell
//set the data here
return cell
} else {
let Postcell = tableView.dequeueReusableCell(withIdentifier: "PostCell", for: indexPath) as! PostCell
let post = posts[indexPath.row]
let image = images[indexPath.row]
let username = post["user_username"] as? String
let text = post["post_text"] as? String
// assigning shortcuts to ui obj
Postcell.usernameLbl.text = username
Postcell.textLbl.text = text
Postcell.pictureImg.image = image
return Postcell
}
} // end of function
My first cell is there and so are the post.count, but for some reason the posts.count is missing one post and I believe this is because of the first cell. Can anybody help me with this? thanks in advance.

Answer 1

You need to adjust the value returned from numberOfRowsInSection to account for the extra row. And you would need to adjust the index used to access values from your posts array to deal with the extra row.
But a much better solution is to use two sections. The first section should be your extra row and the second section would be your posts.
func numberOfSections(in tableView: UITableView) -> Int {
return 2
}
func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, numberOfRowsInSection section: Int) -> Int {
if section == 0 {
return 1
} else {
return posts.count
}
}
func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, cellForRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> UITableViewCell {
if indexPath.section == 0 {
let cell = tableView.dequeueReusableCell(withIdentifier: "Cell", for: indexPath) as! InfoCell
//set the data here
return cell
} else {
let Postcell = tableView.dequeueReusableCell(withIdentifier: "PostCell", for: indexPath) as! PostCell
let post = posts[indexPath.row]
let image = images[indexPath.row]
let username = post["user_username"] as? String
let text = post["post_text"] as? String
// assigning shortcuts to ui obj
Postcell.usernameLbl.text = username
Postcell.textLbl.text = text
Postcell.pictureImg.image = image
return Postcell
}
}