Busy — Sun, 12 Sep 2004 22:55:30 +0000

clear as mud on a sunny day with a westerly gale blowing.

use a switch statement in the function class to control it all

hard when you don't have the full story but I know what its like when just wanting a small bit of a large picture.

several longer ways to do it also, define $foo's
define foo1 {404,search, nav,footer}
define foo2 {500,nav}
define foo3 {contact,search, help,dirty pic, toast}
define foo4 {none of the above}
....
new foo(foo2)

Abhishek Reddy — Sun, 12 Sep 2004 11:52:38 +0000

The class is huge, huge. Seven functions and growing.

Also, the navigation and search box is just an example; I have more detailed, unique bits.* It won't be on all pages. There are about five different cases I have so far, and they do change often.

Renegade, that is sample code, and I have made a typing mistake as I invented it. The real code "works" -- no silly errors like that, no need for debugging. This is more of a theory question in that sense.

* I'm avoiding explaining the real scenario because it's not a generic web site. Instead, it's an intranet web application. The bits I have that change are like widgets, and there are many of them, changing based on the application view selected. They follow a similar structure, though, like a header/title and utility/tool bar at the top, message box, content area, footer and diagnostics. It's only the content of these regions that changes (sometimes NULL) -- the data comes from the functions in the class.

Clear as mud?

Busy — Sun, 12 Sep 2004 11:30:33 +0000

I know you only posted part of the code but if your class only has one function/condition it's not worth putting it inside a class.
Also if the navigation and search will be on all pages you can just use a function

function foo($foofoo)
{
//get whatever $foofoo is, like:
echo template header value
display $foofoo
echo template
}

if ($page=="default") {
foo($default);
}elseif($page=="404"){
foo($error);
}

depending how big it's going to get you can define a lot of the $foofoo values.
If the navigation and search wont always be on all pages you can call foo() with 3 values, foo($foofoo,1,0) 1 and 0 being true and false and the actual function works out the rest.

Renegade — Sun, 12 Sep 2004 09:42:47 +0000

You have:

if ($page="default")

'
and

} elseif ($page="404")

correct me if I'm wrong but isn't it ment to be "==" ?

Abhishek Reddy — Sun, 12 Sep 2004 04:33:00 +0000

I'm now using pretty much what I posted above, only I've set $foo->header() or $foo->not_found() to take only one parameter:

<?php
Class foo {
  function header ($args)
  {
     $something = $args[0];
     $nextthing = $args[1];
   }
}
?>

I don't know if it's a makeshift solution or that proper way to do it. It works for now, but I'm open to suggestions...