On Monday 10 October 2005 17:55, Gabor Hojtsy wrote:
IMO the clean way is to have arrays when the data is NOT structured, but is a list of similar items, but to have objects when it is structured. so $menu_item->path instead of $menu_item['path']. just like we have for most 'things' like nodes, comments, terms, etc. But all these $menu_items should sit in a $items array, not in $items->item1, $items->item2. Most of this is in place already, but not all. Keeping Drupal clean means deciding on standards like these too, IMO.
Agreead. Structured data vs. list data is a good separation indicator.I
If more people agree, then we can make a few issues called "rewrite menu to use objects, instead of keyed arrays" and so. And add a few lines to the coding guidelines. Not that I think that menus will ever be rewritten, but it /should/ be done, if we want real clan and consisten code. Its more a thing that we can say 'from now on we do it this way' Bèr