Re: [PHP Template] Recursive hide behavior

[email protected] (Andrei Zmievski) Fri, 3 Mar 2000 10:30:07 -0600
Newsgroups php.template
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, 03 Mar 2000, Monte Ohrt wrote:
> We already have an ambiguity problem. What if you want to hide when all
> variables are empty, or any section is empty?

Any section is hidden, you mean.

> We could split this up into two separate attributes like so:
> 
> hideonvars=none
> hideonvars=all
> hideonvars=any
> 
> hideonsections=none
> hideonsections=all
> hideonsections=any
> 
> 
> Are these attribute names ok? Anyways, this idea keeps the sytax simple
> and consistant.
> 
> The default might be (the most commonly wanted behavior):
> 
> hideonvars=any
> hideonsections=all

Splitting into two attributes (while a little more info now) makes it
more intuitive and flexible. And with good defaults, like proposed
above, you wouldn't even need to use these most of the time.

-Andrei
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