[pmwiki-users] Page Text Variables Array . . .

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 12:36:50PM -0400, Ben Wilson wrote:
> The following is my way of converting the Page Text Variable string
> and converting to a trimmed value array in my recipes. Pm, if this
> meets your approval, is it possible to add this function to the core
> so that other recipe developers could avail themselves of the
> function?
> 
> function PageVarA($pagename,$var,$delm=',') {
>     return array_map(trim, explode($delm, PageVar($pagename, $var)));
> }

I'm going to wait on this particular functionality (page variables
as arrays) simply because I want to think about the longer-term
ramifications a bit.  It may also be necessary at some point to
be able to deal with CSV strings, instead of a simple split on
commas, so that things like

     1, 2, 3, "ABC, Inc.", XYZ

returns

     array('1', '2', '3', 'ABC, Inc.', 'XYZ')

instead of

     array('1', '2', '3', '"ABC', 'Inc."', 'XYZ')

Pm