Passing arrays to a Widget/Snippet

Hello everyone,

The new parser (GreenToken) will support passing arrays to a snippet/widget in the following proposed format:

This will pass in $names as an index array

[[Widget? &names[]=`mary` &names[]=`James`]]

This will pass in $colors as an associate array

[[Widget? &colors[red]=`#ff0000` &colors[blue]=`#0000ff`]]

The format might change slightly but what do you think about the idea of being able to pass arrays to a snippet. Think it will ever come in handy?

The more I read your post about the new parser, the more I think I am going to like it a lot

I don’t fully grasp what it means yet, but I am pretty interrested !

Raymond, I think the second example will need 2 input, the one for the key and the other one for the value, maybe something like this will work.


If you leave it empty it, will quto populate the key with auto-increment integer number, just like the way PHP do its array processing.

Quote from: Djamoer at Feb 15, 2006, 10:12 AM

Raymond, I think the second example will need 2 input, the one for the key and the other one for the value, maybe something like this will work.

[[Widget? &colors[red]=`#ff0000` &colors[blue]=`#0000ff`]]

You’re correct.
I had it like that in the post but SMF converted it into colors

Quote from: xwisdom at Feb 15, 2006, 02:04 PM

You’re correct.
I had it like that in the post but SMF converted it into colors

Than it’s SMF that has to be blamed then Pardon all the typo in my previous post, for some reason I didn’t double check my post.