[eluser]CodyPChristian[/eluser]
Been awhile since I've been around the forums, actually its been almost 2 years!! Either way I still develop with CI daily. While developing the other day I came across a little problem while using one of the CI libs. I come across little things like this alot but I never post them
Let me explain first the use of this mod, then I will share the code for it.
In my pacific case I needed a way to pass a template from a table to the parser class along-side the array of parsing variables for the parser to replace with. I needed it to allow that action as well as to return to a variable. The latter you can do by default via the 3rd param, however it expects that you pass in a view file and not a variable containing the data. This way I could then pass the data onto another function. Maybe there is another way to do this but this worked in my case.
Example Usage:
Code:
$TemplateParams = //Array of template parsing variables to replace the {vars} within $EmailTemplate
$EmailTemplate = //This is the email template data coming from database as an array...
//Parse Templates
$this->load->library('parser');
//Parse Email Subject
$subject = $this->parser->parse($EmailTemplate['email_subject'], $TemplateParams, TRUE, TRUE); //4th Param 'true' added to library to bypass view output
//Parse Email Body
$body = $this->parser->parse($EmailTemplate['email_body'], $TemplateParams, TRUE, TRUE); //4th Param 'true' added to library to bypass view output
/system/libraries/parser.php
Code:
#/system/libraries/parser.php
/**
* Parse a template
*
* Parses pseudo-variables contained in the specified template,
* replacing them with the data in the second param
*
* @access public
* @param string
* @param array
* @param bool
* @return string
*/
/**
* Modified 'parse' Function
*
* Added 'bypass' param and if statements to function
* to allow bypass of $CI->load->view() output
*
* @author Cody P. Christian
* @date 8:25PM EST 12/7/09
* @url http://codypchristian.net
*
*/
function parse($template, $data, $return = FALSE, $bypass = FALSE)
{
//if bypass equals false then continue, else ignore
if(!$bypass){
$CI =& get_instance();
$template = $CI->load->view($template, $data, TRUE);
}
if ($template == '')
{
return FALSE;
}
foreach ($data as $key => $val)
{
if (is_array($val))
{
$template = $this->_parse_pair($key, $val, $template);
}
else
{
$template = $this->_parse_single($key, (string)$val, $template);
}
}
//if bypass equals false then continue, else ignore
if(!$bypass){
if ($return == FALSE)
{
$CI->output->append_output($template);
}
}
return $template;
}
I modified the function by adding the 4th param $bypass and adding the two !$bypass if statements.
To use the previous function just replace your parser() function in your parser.php file.
I do not know if adding my 'mod comment' is allowed by Ellis, however I add it to all files I modify to keep track of when I modified them.
I hope the code above is self-explanatory but if you have any questions let me know. In basic form it allows me to pass data in from a $variable instead of a view and return to a $variable.
