Config options with arrays

I want to put in an array as value of a config option, but this seems to muck up the editconfig script as it shows 'Array' as value instead of the array. Any ideas how to get around this? I really want an associative array for easy access.

At the moment it looks like this:

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$config['groupcolor'] = array(<br />    "5" => "Normal",<br />    "6" => "#FF6600",<br />    );<br />

Or is this something I should report as a bug?

I would be surprised if the config editor could handle that. I think it treats all the $config values as scalars.

OOH - I dunno the answer - but I kind of like your theory about it... colors for groups.

Can something like this work?

$config['groupcolor'][5] =

Yeah, I could do it that way I guess. A bit more to write though, but that shouldn't matter. Thanks.

I've been doing a mod on request to change color and/or title based on group which I will be able to release soon for your enjoyment.

It seems I spoke to soon, since that notation also gives an array, the same problem arises.

I really don't want to have a comma separated value and split it, it's not very clean and easy to break.

No, it seems it doesn't, but here is a quick hack to make it handle one level of arrays.

Change these lines in admin/editconfig.php:

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<br />   while (list($key,$value) = each($config)) {<br />      if (!ereg("-$key-",$knownkeys)) {<br />         $extras .= "\$config['$key'] = '$config[$key]';\n";<br />      }<br />   }<br />

To this:

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<br />   while (list($key,$value) = each($config)) {<br />      if (!ereg("-$key-",$knownkeys)) {<br />          if ( is_array($config[$key]) ) {<br />              $printvalue = "array(";<br />              while (list($akey,$aval) = each($config[$key])) {<br />                  $printvalue .= "'$akey' => \"$aval\",\n";<br />              }<br />              $printvalue .= ")";<br />          } else {<br />              $printvalue = "'$config[$key]'";<br />          }<br />         $extras .= "\$config['$key'] =	$printvalue;\n";<br />      }<br />   }<br />

You might try something like:

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$config['groupcolor'] = "array(<br />    '5' => 'Normal',<br />    '6' => '#FF6600',<br />    )";

and then do an eval. But the config editor might get confused by the nested quotes.

I'll give that a shot.

Thanks, that did the trick, without having to hack admin/editconfig.php.

Here's how I did, I put this in the config file:

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$config['groupcolor'] =	'array("5" => "Normal",<br />"6" => "#FF6600",<br />)';<br />

And did this in the script to get the array:

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   eval("\$groupcolor = {$config['groupcolor']};");<br />

That works, but if one quotation mark is wrong it can break the editconfig page.