Re: [PHP Template] Recursive hide behavior

looks like dan beat me.

* autohide = yes/no
  specifies whether this section is hidden if it contains a variable
  without a value

is the current definition. reading it literaly, sec1 would be hidden
as well because it does in fact contact a variable without a value.
(it just happens to be in another (nested?) section).

i think there should be options to control the tree traversal (say that
5 times fast 8^) ) for hierachial hiding (2 uses of alliteration in one
sentence, my god!) of sections. the finer grained the better, but not so
as to impose a performance hit when not in use.

8^)

avi

On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, Dan Libby wrote:

> My feeling is that it should not hide the parent by default.  However, we
> could do something like change the allowed values of autohide to "all |
> none | vars | sections".  This gives the developer pretty fine grained
> control at every level in the hierarchy.  This also opens the door to
> autohide="$varname", which means only autohide for that particular var.
> Dunno if we wanna get that crazy or not.  If so, what to do about multiple
> vars?
> 
> -dan
> 
> Andrei Zmievski wrote:
> 
> > Another design question:
> >
> > Let's say you have the following situation:
> >
> > {{section sec1 autohide="on"}}
> >         Category: {{ $category }}
> >         {{section sec2 autohide="on"}}
> >                 Article: {{ $article_headline }}
> >         {{/section sec2}}
> > {{/section sec1}}
> >
> > If the $article_headline variable has no value, section 'sec2' will be
> > hidden. The question is, should section 'sec1' be hidden as well?
> > Intuitively, for this particular example, it seems that it should be.
> >
> > However, I'm not sure how far up the section chain it should propagate.
> > Any ideas on this?
> >
> > -Andrei
> >
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