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Element helper for CakePHP

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  1. <?php 
  2.  
  3. /**
  4.  * Element Helper
  5.  * Helps formatting strings with custom markup
  6.  * 
  7.  * @author Stefan Zollinger
  8.  * @license MIT
  9.  * @version 1.0
  10.  */
  11.  
  12. class ElementHelper extends Helper {
  13.  
  14. 	/**
  15. 	 * The base directory containing your elements.
  16. 	 * Set to '' to include all elements in your views/elements folder
  17. 	 */
  18. 	var $baseDir = 'templates';
  19.  
  20. 	/**
  21. 	 * Applies all the formatting defined in this helper
  22. 	 * to $str
  23. 	 * (Currently only $this->getElements() )
  24. 	 * 
  25. 	 * @return $str Formatted string 
  26. 	 * @param string $str 
  27. 	 */
  28. 	function format($str) {
  29. 		$str =& $this->getElements($str);
  30. 		return $str;
  31. 	}
  32.  
  33. 	/**
  34. 	 * 
  35. 	 * Replaces [element:element_name] tags in a string with 
  36. 	 * output from cakephp elements
  37. 	 * Options can be defined as follows:
  38. 	 * 		[element:element_name id=123 otherVar=var1 nextvar="also with quotes"]
  39. 	 *  	[e:element_name]
  40. 	 *  
  41. 	 * @return formatted string 
  42. 	 * @param $str string
  43. 	 */
  44. 	function getElements(&$str){
  45. 		$View =& ClassRegistry::getObject('view');		
  46. 		preg_match_all('/\[(element|e):([A-Za-z0-9_\-]*)(.*?)\]/i', $str, $tagMatches);
  47.  
  48. 		for($i=0; $i < count($tagMatches[1]); $i++){
  49.  
  50. 			$regex = '/(\S+)=[\'"]?((?:.(?![\'"]?\s+(?:\S+)=|[>\'"]))+.)[\'"]?/i';
  51. 			preg_match_all($regex, $tagMatches[3][$i], $attributes);
  52.  
  53. 			$element = $tagMatches[2][$i];
  54. 			$options = array();
  55. 			for($j=0; $j < count($attributes[0]); $j++){
  56. 				$options[$attributes[1][$j]] = $attributes[2][$j]; 
  57. 			}
  58. 			$str = str_replace($tagMatches[0][$i], $View->element($this->baseDir.DS.$element,$options), $str);
  59.  
  60.  
  61. 		}
  62.  
  63. 		return $str;
  64. 	}
  65.  
  66. }
  67.  
  68. ?>

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