Tim, that certainly is one way to do it but it wont work for what i need. the header component called from the request_comp needs to do some stuff based on components to be called later. things like bringing in js scripts and css files if certain components need them. heres an outline:
index.html |-header.cmp |-compa.cmp |-compd.cmp header.cmp needs to look ahead at what components are about to be called so it can include the appropriate css and js files. for now, dont need to worry about anything more than components called just from index.html, i can ignore comps called from compa.cmp, compd,cmp, etc. i guess one question i have is does Mason provide an easy way to get the source output of a comp or do i have to do that by hand? thanks again -- William Cox email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] blog: http://my-dimension.com/ music: http://www.last.fm/user/mydimension/ photos: http://flickr.com/photos/mydimension/ On 4/4/07, Timothy S. Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 4 Apr 2007, William Cox wrote: > > > i'm trying to do something a little wonky and would like to put it > > forth to you guys to your feedback. i have a bunch of main level > > components that all have a header component as their first action. > > then there are a bunch of other components called later on in the main > > component. what im trying to do is get the header comp to determine > > what components are about to be called. this would be easy if it was a > > footer component, just read through the stack. but at the beginning of > > the request, the stack doesnt exist yet. > > so my initial thought is to parse through the main comps source and > > pull out what i need (and cache it of course). but this is a bit > > brutish IMO. is there useful information from the lexer/compiler that > > could be used? or any thoughts on parsing the code? > > Use an autohandler. Do something like this: > > $string = $m->scomp('mainpagename'); > > $footstring = # footer calculations here > > print $string; > print $footstring; > > All totally untested, of course, but it's an idea. > > :) > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > | Name: Tim Nelson | Because the Creator is, | > | E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | I am | > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK---- > Version 3.12 > GCS d+++ s+: a- C++$ U+++$ P+++$ L+++ E- W+ N+ w--- V- > PE(+) Y+>++ PGP->+++ R(+) !tv b++ DI++++ D G+ e++>++++ h! y- > -----END GEEK CODE BLOCK----- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Mason-users mailing list Mason-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mason-users
