[eluser]dsims[/eluser]
I am new to CI so bear with me.
Since most of the helpers are better utilized with arrays, I was wondering if writing helpers differently would be useful.
example on the form helper
typical input form helper
Code:
$data = array(
'name' => 'username',
'id' => 'username',
'value' => 'johndoe',
'maxlength' => '100',
'size' => '50',
'style' => 'width:50%',
);
echo form_input($data);
// Would produce:
<input type="text" name="username" id="username" value="johndoe" maxlength="100" size="50" style="width:50%" />
Form helper function for form_input()
Code:
if ( ! function_exists('form_input'))
{
function form_input($data = '', $value = '', $extra = '')
{
$defaults = array('type' => 'text', 'name' => (( ! is_array($data)) ? $data : ''), 'value' => $value);
return "<input ".parse_form_attributes($data, $defaults).$extra." />\n";
}
}
I was thinking of a function to parse arrays
Code:
function iterate_array($data){
if(is_array($data)){
return $data;
}
else{
$newdata = explode(" ",$data);
$i=0;
foreach($newdata as $key => $value){
if (strstr($newdata[$i], ".")){
$class = str_replace(".", "",$newdata[$i] );
$formclass .= $class." ";
}
elseif(strstr($newdata[$i], "#")){
$id = str_replace( "#", "",$newdata[$i]);
$formid .= $id." ";
}
elseif(strstr($newdata[$i], 'style=')){
$formstyle = str_replace( 'style=', "",$newdata[$i]);
$forminstyle = $formstyle;
}
elseif(strstr($newdata[$i], '=>')){
$formray = $newdata[$i];
$formra .= $formray." ";
}
$i++;
}
if(!empty($formclass)){
$formed['class'] = trim($formclass);
}else{
$formclass =array();
}
if(!empty($formid)){
$formed['id'] = trim($formid);
}else{
$formclass =array();
}
if(!empty($forminstyle)){
$formed['style'] = trim($forminstyle);
}else{
$formclass =array();
}
if(!empty($formra)){
$prepped = trim($formra);
if (strstr($prepped, " ")){
$prep = explode(" ",$prepped);
foreach($prep as $k => $v){
$v = explode("=>",$v);
foreach($v as $v1){
$t = $v[0];
$p =$v[1];
$formed[$t] =$p;
}
$i++;
}
}else{
$prep = explode("=>",$prepped);
foreach($prep as $k => $v){
$t = $prep[0];
$p =$prep[1];
$formed[$t] =$p;
}
}
}else{
$formra =array();
}
$form = array_merge($formclass, $formid, $formstyle, $formra);
return $form;
}
to use it the helper I would use
Code:
if ( ! function_exists('form_input'))
{
if( ! function_exists('iterate_array'){
function form_input($data = '', $value = '', $extra = '')
{
$defaults = array('type' => 'text', 'name' => (( ! is_array($data)) ? $data : ''), 'value' => $value);
return "<input ".parse_form_attributes($data, $defaults).$extra." />\n";
}else{
function form_input($data = '', $extra = '')
{
$defaults = array('type' => 'text');
$inline = iterate_array($data);
$attribbed= array_merge($defaults, $inline);
return "<input ".parse_form_attributes($data, $attribbed).$extra." />\n";
}
I really don't know if the above would work and it is not short tagged.
I have currently gotten a myfom_helper.php that utilizes this functioning
Code:
echo functionname('input name=>fclass .class #rad .class2 maxlength=>50 style=color:red;height:15px');
which outputs
<input type="text" name="fclass" value="" class="class class2" id="rad" style="color:red;height:15px" maxlength="50" />
Im actually working on modified code of a form helper so I could just use functionname('input TYPEtext MXL100 NAMEusername .class .class2 #id #id2 $$js'); Gotta love spaghetti.
