GS Custom Settings [v0.6.2]

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Looks promising.

It would be nice to be able to interface with this programmatically via a plugin, it would be very easy to write a bridge function to check for and use this instead of writing your own settings manager in my plugin, or using globals etc like, newsmamager does. I could even use this to make a plugin that shims gsconfig with a ui.

We could also add per component extra hooks, to add these to individual components, in 3.4

True that. I was thinking more about providing for theme developers/ webmasters than plugin devs. I did hint to this in the better components thread, and I will try to add this in one of the next releases. Basically, there's not much else to do than add a function similar to this:

PHP Code:

function add_setting($setting) {
   $path = 'path/to/file';
   $file = json_decode($path, TRUE);
   $properties = array('label','lookup','access','type','options','value','descr');
   $final = $setting;
   for ($x = 0; $i < count($properties); $i++) { 
      if (!array_key_exists($properties[$i]))  {// OR if value is not correct
         // set defaults & validation here
         $final[$properties[$i]] = $someDefault;
      }
   }
   array_push($file['data'], $final);
   $file = json_encode($file);
   file_put_contents($path);
} 


I am still torn on one issue though; for which I'd love to have some feedback. Currently the setting lookups are PHP-ified from the setting's label, while in i18n custom fields for example, the user has to write his own lookup ('name'). I did this to eliminate an extra step of 'thinking', but I understand some lookups could get ridiculously long if the label is too descriptive. On the other hand, there's a per-setting description to explain the label... And as a second point, given that the strings are saved in JSON, they could actually contain almost any character without errors... Should I allow such things as

Code:

get_setting('social/I am a really long label?!')

?

does not work

What does not work? I tested and it works all fine now.