public static function FlexiformElement::createElement in Flexiform 7

Create an element object.

2 calls to FlexiformElement::createElement()

flexiform_manage_form_fields_form_submit in ./flexiform.admin.inc

Submit handler for the flexiform_manage_form_fields_form

flexiform_webform_field_create_instance in flexiform_webform/flexiform_webform.module

Implements hook_field_create_instance().

File

includes/flexiform.element.inc, line 487

Controller class for flexiform elements.

Class

FlexiformElement

Base class for all FlexiformElements

Code

public static function createElement($flexiform, $settings) {
  $entity_namespace = $settings['entity_namespace'];
  $element_name = $settings['element_name'];

  // If we don't have a cached version then create one.
  $entity_type = $flexiform->entities[$entity_namespace]['entity_type'];
  $bundle = $flexiform->entities[$entity_namespace]['bundle'];
  $element_info = flexiform_get_element_info($entity_type, $bundle, $element_name);
  $class_name = $element_info['class'];
  if (!class_exists($class_name) || !in_array('FlexiformElementInterface', class_implements($class_name))) {
    watchdog('flexiform', 'Invalid Flexiform Element class !class_name for element !element_name', array(
      '!class_name' => $class_name,
      '!element_name' => $element_name,
    ), WATCHDOG_WARNING);
    $class_name = 'FlexiformElementBroken';
  }
  return new $class_name($flexiform, $settings);
}