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On-off switch for txp:hide
function hide($atts, $thing = NULL)
{
extract(lAtts(array(
'state' => 1,
), $atts));
return $state ? '' : parse($thing);
}Why? For testing/debugging it is sometimes helpful to add arbitrary code blocks, hiding and revealing them as needed. It would be handy to be able to switch a block on and off by changing just one character, instead of having to add/remove hide tags.
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Not bad. Maybe we can marry your switch ‘state’ with my txp:hide timer request :)
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I like your idea, although I think it really belongs in a separate if_date tag, as you suggested in that topic.
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#4 2011-01-13 12:40:39
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Re: On-off switch for txp:hide
+1
This’d make a really useful feature! Code sometimes can get so much exuberant and unwieldy to throw in and remove the hide tags again and again.
(I’d just name it a little more speaking like, perhaps, active.)
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uli wrote:
(I’d just name it a little more speaking like, perhaps,
active.)
Actually, I’d find that confusing. What’s active, the hide action or the enclosed code? Almost any attribute name I can think of has that problem. state, being more abstract, seems less likely to lead to misinterpretation. But maybe:
<txp:hide show="1" />
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I’ll happily implement <txp:hide off="on" /> and let the wiki authors sort it out ;) Oh, the difficulties of naming…
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it would be tedious to find the on/off switchs though pages/forms/articles. Wouldn’t it be better if there was a preference for it?
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Adding an option for global on/off based on the site’s production status might be a nice feature. Though really I think that would be better handled by an if_production_status value="debugging" or if_debugging tag.
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If you don’t mind changing 2 characters instead of one, you could simply add a character after the “<” in the TXP tag: <xtxp:hide> and </xtxp:hide> aren’t recognised as TXP tags and likely won’t affect HTML rendering either.
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^^ For short chunks of code, ruud’s trick is nice. For large chunks, an attribute seems the way to go.
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