API15:JElementFilelist/fetchElement

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Syntax

fetchElement($name, $value, &$node, $control_name)

Parameter Name	Default Value	Description
$name
$value
&$node
$control_name

Defined in

libraries/joomla/html/parameter/element/filelist.php

Importing

jimport( 'joomla.html.parameter.element.filelist' );

Source Body

function fetchElement($name, $value, &$node, $control_name)
{
        jimport( 'joomla.filesystem.folder' );
        jimport( 'joomla.filesystem.file' );

        // path to images directory
        $path           = JPATH_ROOT.DS.$node->attributes('directory');
        $filter         = $node->attributes('filter');
        $exclude        = $node->attributes('exclude');
        $stripExt       = $node->attributes('stripext');
        $files          = JFolder::files($path, $filter);

        $options = array ();

        if (!$node->attributes('hide_none'))
        {
                $options[] = JHTML::_('select.option', '-1', '- '.JText::_('Do not use').' -');
        }

        if (!$node->attributes('hide_default'))
        {
                $options[] = JHTML::_('select.option', '', '- '.JText::_('Use default').' -');
        }

        if ( is_array($files) )
        {
                foreach ($files as $file)
                {
                        if ($exclude)
                        {
                                if (preg_match( chr( 1 ) . $exclude . chr( 1 ), $file ))
                                {
                                        continue;
                                }
                        }
                        if ($stripExt)
                        {
                                $file = JFile::stripExt( $file );
                        }
                        $options[] = JHTML::_('select.option', $file, $file);
                }
        }

        return JHTML::_('select.genericlist',  $options, ''.$control_name.'['.$name.']', 'class="inputbox"', 'value', 'text', $value, $control_name.$name);
}

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