base.inc in Views (for Drupal 7) 6.2

Provides the basic object definitions used by plugins and handlers.

File

includes/base.inc

<?php

/**
 * @file
 *
 * Provides the basic object definitions used by plugins and handlers.
 */

/**
 * Basic definition for many views objects
 */
class views_object {

  /**
   * Except for displays, options for the object will be held here.
   */
  var $options = array();

  /**
   * Information about options for all kinds of purposes will be held here.
   * @code
   * 'option_name' => array(
   *  - 'default' => default value,
   *  - 'translatable' => TRUE/FALSE (wrap in t() on export if true),
   *  - 'contains' => array of items this contains, with its own defaults, etc.
   *      If contains is set, the default will be ignored and assumed to
   *      be array()
   *
   *  ),
   *  @endcode
   * Each option may have any of the following functions:
   *  - export_option_OPTIONNAME -- Special export handling if necessary.
   *  - translate_option_OPTIONNAME -- Special handling for translating data
   *    within the option, if necessary.
   */
  function option_definition() {
    return array();
  }

  /**
   * Views handlers use a special construct function so that we can more
   * easily construct them with variable arguments.
   */
  function construct() {
    $this
      ->set_default_options();
  }

  /**
   * Set default options on this object. Called by the constructor in a
   * complex chain to deal with backward compatibility.
   */
  function options(&$options) {
  }

  /**
   * Set default options.
   * For backward compatibility, it sends the options array; this is a
   * feature that will likely disappear at some point.
   */
  function set_default_options() {
    $this
      ->_set_option_defaults($this->options, $this
      ->option_definition());

    // Retained for complex defaults plus backward compatibility.
    $this
      ->options($this->options);
  }
  function _set_option_defaults(&$storage, $options, $level = 0) {
    foreach ($options as $option => $definition) {
      if (isset($definition['contains']) && is_array($definition['contains'])) {
        $storage[$option] = array();
        $this
          ->_set_option_defaults($storage[$option], $definition['contains'], $level++);
      }
      elseif (!empty($definition['translatable']) && !empty($definition['default'])) {
        $storage[$option] = t($definition['default']);
      }
      else {
        $storage[$option] = isset($definition['default']) ? $definition['default'] : NULL;
      }
    }
  }

  /**
   * Unpack options over our existing defaults, drilling down into arrays
   * so that defaults don't get totally blown away.
   */
  function unpack_options(&$storage, $options, $definition = NULL, $check = TRUE) {
    if ($check && !is_array($options)) {
      return;
    }
    if (!isset($definition)) {
      $definition = $this
        ->option_definition();
    }
    foreach ($options as $key => $value) {
      if (is_array($value)) {
        if (!isset($storage[$key]) || !is_array($storage[$key])) {
          $storage[$key] = array();
        }
        $this
          ->unpack_options($storage[$key], $value, isset($definition[$key]['contains']) ? $definition[$key]['contains'] : array(), FALSE);
      }
      else {
        if (!empty($definition[$key]['translatable']) && !empty($value)) {
          $storage[$key] = t($value);
        }
        else {
          $storage[$key] = $value;
        }
      }
    }
  }

  /**
   * Let the handler know what its full definition is.
   */
  function set_definition($definition) {
    $this->definition = $definition;
    if (isset($definition['field'])) {
      $this->real_field = $definition['field'];
    }
  }
  function destroy() {
    if (isset($this->view)) {
      unset($this->view);
    }
    if (isset($this->display)) {
      unset($this->display);
    }
    if (isset($this->query)) {
      unset($this->query);
    }
  }

}

Classes

Name	Description
views_object	Basic definition for many views objects