<?php
/****************************************************************************************************
This example demonstrates how to :
- Create a variable store and initialize it with a set of variable name/value pairs.
- Show the contents of the store, expanding the variable values or not
- Show the contents of a variable after expansion
****************************************************************************************************/
require_once ( '../Variables.phpclass' ) ;
if ( php_sapi_name ( ) != 'cli' )
echo "<pre>" ;
// Initialization values for variables - 3 variables are defined here, 'word1', 'word2' and 'sentence'
// The 'sentence' variable value references variables 'word1' and 'word2'.
$variables =
[
'word1' => 'Hello',
'word2' => 'world',
'sentence' => '$(word1) $(word2) !'
] ;
// Initialize the variable store
$store = new VariableStore ( $variables ) ;
// Show variable names and values, without expanding the references to existing variables in their values
echo "Defined variables (with no expansion) :\n" ;
print_r ( $store -> ToArray ( ) ) ;
echo "\n\n" ;
// Same, but variable values are expanded
echo "Defined variables (with expansion) :\n" ;
print_r ( $store -> ToArray ( true ) ) ;
echo "\n\n" ;
// Shows the expanded value of the 'sentence' variable - note that it requires the VariableStore::OPTION_RECURSIVE flag
// to be set, which is the default
echo "Value of variable 'sentence' : " ; print_r ( $store [ 'sentence' ] ) ;
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