[binarycloud-dev] Still Something Rotten....

[Justin F. <je...@ey...>]

alex black wrote:
> 
> > Sometimes my mind just falls apart, and I feel like I am in that
> > state right now.  In one of your last posts, you suggested to
> > get a large/complex bit of data and store it in a class variable,
> > and then (implied) down the load chain, this variable can
> > be accessed.
> >
> > HOW?
> 
> $Page->modules['group_name'][load_order]->variable_name
> 
> Thus my mention of possibly using unique names in the page declaration, so
> making references to modules would be more simple.
> 
> that would also complicate the page module sorting functions, so I'm not
> sure it's worth doing that way. it may be a lot more simple to have a module
> communication manager which is called by a module that needs something, like
> a really simple Request class.
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Alex:

Oy weh.  Now I was var_dump()'ing what you have above, viz:

var_dump($Page->modules['top'][0]);

as I thought that was it after looking at Page.php, and all I
was getting were NULL's.  Of course, of course, I was
in some decendant class method, and forgot to global $Page
within the method......

But, Alex, you are not going to make us use this syntax,
are you?  No, you are figuring out something with a
bit more elegance, aren't you? :)

There is _still_ something rotten, at least it seems so,
in your array sort in Page.  This load_order thingy
has, you realize, the weakness, that you can put in
index.php three modules in a 'top' group with load_order(s)
as:

EXAMPLE---

MOD1	load_order=>69
MOD2	load_order=>22
MOD3	load_order=>11

and this _should_ map/sort to

$Page->modules['top'][0]	===> MOD3
$Page->modules['top'][1]	===> MOD2
$Page->modules['top'][2]	===> MOD1

but it doesn't.  No matter what you put in your
load order, the sequence in $Page->modules['top']
is ALWAYS IN THE ORDER OF the appearance in index.php.
Anyway, it appears your uasort() thingy is not working,
and that, specifically, your sorting comparison function:

create_function('$a,$b', 'return $a("load_order"]
			- $b["load_order"];');

must be always returning 0, instead of (-1,0,+1) accordingly.

Now I am wondering, with your sorting, IF IT WERE WORKING,
you have it mechanized, I think, that for my EXAMPLE above,
admittedly wrong or sloppy, it would create a sparse array
if the load_order was a number type and not a number_string (with
quotes).
I think you also need to guard against sparse arrays somehow.
Well, I haven't tried to "fix" _IncludeModules($_group)
and see if it does create a sparse array....

OK Alex, so in any case, you are going to figure out some
kind of way to reference _which_ instance of multiple
loads of the same module easily.  The only thing that
occurs to me quickly is something like adding a tag,
as in:

                array(
                        'name'          => "EyeLibrary",
                        'package'       => "lib",
                        'load_order'    => 2,
                        'tag'           => "TableData",
                        'options'       => "option1",
                ),

and then allow reference to that particular module as:

$Page->modules['top']['TableData']->method_or_property;

That is knee-jerk, but gives you something to think about.

_jef


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