Re: [PHP Template] Repeating values

Maybe we should leave that sort of thing for a phase II.  I'm just
concerned that this could easily get too complex for our customers, the
designers...


S.

At 04:19 PM 2/29/00 -0800, Dan Libby wrote:
>I think it would be a useful feature.  However now you are starting to get
into
>the area of collation.  Previously I worked with a template language that had
>several options for collating multiple lists.  It gets a bit tricky....   ;-)
>
>-dan
>
>Andrei Zmievski wrote:
>
>> Right now the spec mentions the following:
>>
>>         * repeat = yes/no
>>                 repeat the last value of the variable inside the section
loop
>>                 if the other variables have more values, if not specified,
>>                 defaults to yes
>>
>> I'm wondering if it should be extended to allow either repeating of the
>> last value the variable has, or of the default value. Example:
>>
>> {{ section sec1 }}
>>         {{ $foo default="green" repeat=yes }}, {{ $bar }}
>> {{/section sec1 }}
>>
>> If $foo has 2 values ("red" and "blue"), and $bar has 4 values ("small",
>> "medium", "large", "x-large"), then "blue" will be repeated:
>>
>>         red,  small
>>         blue, medium
>>         blue, large,
>>         blue, x-large
>>
>> If we specify repeat=default, though, it would do:
>>
>>         red,   small
>>         blue,  medium
>>         green, large
>>         green, x-large
>>
>> Would this be a useful behavior or not?
>>
>> -Andrei
>>
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