[Typo3-dev] OT: Quesstion about PHP syntax in extensions

[Wolfgang Klinger]

 *hiya!*

 On Wed, 16 Jun 2004, Christopher wrote the following:
> That's what I was doing when I noticed this. So does this just mean
> that 'property1.' is simply the name of the element in the array? (And
> here I thought it was doing something tricky...)

 It's tricky ;-)

 e.g.
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myext_pi1.myprop = on
myext_pi1.myprop.value1 = i'm the first one
myext_pi1.myprop.value2 = i'm the second one
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 So you can now test (first) if myprop should get any attention by
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if (isset($conf['myprop']) && 
    $conf['myprop'] == 'on' && 
    count($conf['myprop.'])) {  // dot!

    // ....... do something
}
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 (or check anything else - whatever)
 and then fetch the values with
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$val1 = $conf['myproperty.']['value1'];  // dot!
----------------

 So the dot is very important, without it it's not possible to distinguish 
 between the actual value and sub elements.
 (it's not always useful but nice to have) ,-)

 bye
 Wolfgang