[pmwiki-devel] objectizing pagelist?

[Stirling Westrup]

I've been thinking of writing a recipe to implement the YouSendIt clone I
mentioned on the list a few months ago. In my mind, what would be ideal would
be to have an (:attachlist...:) and a (:filelist ...:) directive that would
use much of the same code as pagelist, and have most of the same features,
including the fmt=... option.

Looking over the pagelist.php code, it seems clear that it mostly does what I
want, but in a way that makes it hard to reuse. So, I've been wondering if I
shouldn't rewrite it to use php classes in order to make it easier to repurpose.

Right now the only thing stopping me is fear that there was some good reason
it wasn't done this way in the first place. I've not worked with php's classes
much (although I'm completely familiar with object oriented programming) so I
don't know if there are major overhead issues or nasty gotchas involved in how
classes work under PHP.

If it were any other directive than pagelist, I wouldn't worry about it, but
thats one routine that gets very heavy use in PmWiki, and I'd hate to degrade
its performance in any significant way.