Posted by wik on February 25, 2010 at 3:50am
Hello,
How you usually(or not usually) deal with complex variable in features? :)
Let's say my feature holds some content type which should not publish author/date info. To make this happen I have to change theme_settings[toggle_node_info_MY_CONTENT_TYPE] but feature can deal with whole theme_settings only and therefore any new content type will make it not sensible overridden.
So far I am thinking to use install hook instead of strongarm for such changes...
Thanks.
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Strongarm can not deal with
Strongarm can not deal with partial variables like that. I use features for most things but like you I ran into this problem.
This is how I did it for the vertical_tabs_config variable, which stores the settings for every single content type within the one variable...
<?php
/**
* Update the vertical tabs setting for mynodetype content type.
*/
function mymodule_update_6001() {
// set up vertical tabs
$vertial_tabs_config = variable_get('vertical_tabs_forms', array());
$vertial_tabs_config['mynodetype_node_form'] = _mymodule_mynodetype_vget_vertical_tabs_forms();
variable_set('vertical_tabs_forms', $vertial_tabs_config);
}
/*
* Helper functions to set the value of vertical_tabs_forms.
*/
function _mymodule_mynodetype_vget_vertical_tabs_forms() {
return array (
'revision_information' => 'revision_information',
'author' => 'author',
'options' => 'options',
'book' => 'book',
'comment_settings' => 'comment_settings',
'menu' => 'menu',
'path' => 'path',
'path_redirect' => 'path_redirect',
'print' => 'print',
'custom_breadcrumbs' => 'custom_breadcrumbs',
'xmlsitemap' => 'xmlsitemap',
'search_block_set' => 'search_block_set',
'taxonomy' => 0,
'nodewords' => 0,
'group_statistics' => 0,
);
}
?>
So, it's not really integrating with features in any kind of way, but it does allow me to move partial variable settings between machines.
ps. I used
drush --pipe vget vertical_tabs_formsto dump the value of the variable and then just copy/pasted it into my function.--
Tom
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