Re: HTML_Template_Flexy private vars in controller

Didier Galland wrote:

I'll try to be more clear (my english is not very good). The goal is to hide internal stuff from outside (esp. designers) : private vars are impossible to output, phpdocumenter won't parse them, flexy will ignore them, etc. You ask me for an example : I've wrote this method in my parent class controller :

    function set_tags($object)//param $object is a data object
    {
        foreach(get_object_vars($this) as $tag_name => $default_value) {

if ($tag_name{0} == '_') {

continue; }

            if (!is_array($this->$tag_name)) {
                $tag_value = $object->get($tag_name);
                if (!empty($tag_value)) {
                    $this->$tag_name = $tag_value;
                } elseif (!empty($default_value)) {
                    $this->$tag_name = $default_value;//value in declaration

of var

                }

continue;

              }
    if (is_array($this->$tag_name) && method_exists($this,'set_' . $tag_name)) {

                //used for lists of other objects, $products in a category

page e.g.

                $method = 'set_' . $tag_name;//name of the method that set

the array of objects

                $this->$method($object->get('id'));
            }
        }
    }

So, in sub-classes controller (in the constructor), I call $this->set_vars($_page_object) and all my declared vars are set automatically. The downside of this is that even $vars that are not intended to be output ($_template, $_modulename of sub-controller, etc.) are set by this method. Indeed, get_object_vars considers all vars, included private ones, useless parsing can then occurs. So if private vars are ignored by flexy, I save some parsing (?? I'm not sure, and I don't know performance effects). flexy ignores these variables at compile time, by ignoring {_a} or {someobject._a}

the above skip should stop your private variables being loaded. - but I dont think it really related to flexy's API/code..

btw: {t:r} triggers a "Warning: htmlspecialchars() expects parameter 1 to be string, object given"

I've got quite a few patches and things queued up for changes on flexy at the moment, and I'll see if I can get this added in. Regards Alan

Regards, Didier "Alan Knowles" <alan@akbkhome.com> a écrit dans le message de news: 3F02278E.5020402@akbkhome.com...

Didier Galland wrote:

Is Flexy skipping private vars in the controller and doesn't output them

? I

mean vars that begins by an underscore. So if $_test in the controller

and

{_test} in the template, {_test} is outputed without modification

({test}

from $test is outputed normally). I would like to know if this is an intended feature

It was. and if this feature will

remains in future versions of flexy.

I'm open to ideas on this. It is (would be ?) a nice feature, when

setting vars to output automatically (with get_object_vars($this) e.g.),

the old version did do something like that, if you have not disabled php in code, at present you can do <script language="php"> print_r($t); </script> from what I remember, I did add it as a modifier in early versions - eg: {t:r} but have no made any decisisons on modifiers for the current version.

also providing a mean to set a nice api / doc for designers (hiding

private

vars).

Not quite sure what you are getting at here - have you got an example? Regards Alan

Regards, Didier

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