An idea to improve String.substitute

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An idea to improve String.substitute

[cpojer]

Hey,

thank you for your report. This totally makes sense but we are not likely to extend String.substitute in MooTools Core. The version in MooTools Core is intended for minor use cases only.

If you can think of a proper Template Class or similar and want to build it, we are more than happy to add it to MooTools More :)

[allochi]

Hi again,

I built one, how do I share with Mootools team to see if it can be accepted in More?

[cpojer]

Either here: https://github.com/mootools/mootools-more

or on the Mailing List: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/mootools-users

I think it would be better to show it with demos etc. on the mailing list so we can discuss it. Note that what I have in mind is supposed to be a fully featured template engine and not just simple text-replace.

[allochi]

Thanks, I will organize my code and examples and post them for discussions.

What I have is more than extending substitute, I have a class that extract HTML from the page or take an element constructed with new Element(), and use it as a template, fill it using an object or array, and insert the result back as many times as needed, it's also smart enough to know if the object used as a data source is an array and insert multiple one for each element say to fill a list.

I also added an in-element template, something that looks for an expression/word in side an element and surround it with a template, to be used for example as highlighter.

I hope it will be good enough to be added to More as a thank you Mootools contribution.

[allochi]

Hay, Have a look at this, I will post it in Mootools More too!

http://allochi.wordpress.com/2011/08/19/mootools-html-templates/