Why not use events? The code which renders these buttons are powered by some "button" class that gives you an interface to build these buttons then render them? or you build an array? Either way, right before you render this object/array simply pass it to an event that your plugins can subscribe to and manipulate the data before being rendered.
Jonathan H. Wage (+1 415 992 5468) Open Source Software Developer & Evangelist sensiolabs.com | jwage.com | doctrine-project.org | symfony-project.org On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 10:20 AM, Tom Boutell <[email protected]> wrote: > > FYI, I resolved the issue by looping over the plugins in the project > and looking to see if they have a > pluginnamePluginPkContextCMSExtension class. If they do, I ask that > class for a list of global buttons. > > This seems reasonable in practice because I only look for these when a > user is logged in with editing privileges, and it would be unusual for > a single Symfony project to use, let's say, 50 plugins. And it's > pretty elegant from an OOP perspective. But I'd be interested in the > thoughts of others on whether there's another way to do it with the > same elegance and better performance. > > Keeping this stuff in a pkContextCMS-specific class for each plugin > seems cleaner than adding CMS-specific methods to the > pluginConfiguration class, which I also considered. > > My getExtensionClasses() method follows. > > (I also upgraded my global buttons to be a proper class and so on, and > I check the extension classes to see whether they actually have a > getGlobalButtons method before interrogating them.) > > -Tom > > static public function getExtensionClasses() > { > $classes = array(); > $plugins = sfContext::getInstance()->getConfiguration()->getPlugins(); > foreach ($plugins as $plugin) > { > $class = $plugin . "PkContextCMSExtension"; > if (class_exists($class, true)) > { > $classes[] = $class; > } > } > if (class_exists("ProjectPkContextCMSExtension")) > { > $classes[] = "ProjectPKContextCMSExtension"; > } > return $classes; > } > > > > -- > Tom Boutell > P'unk Avenue > 215 755 1330 > punkave.com > window.punkave.com > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "symfony developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/symfony-devs?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
