Alpha Framework 4.0.0 API Documentation

ViewState

in package

• Application

A singleton class that maintains the view state in the session.

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since

1.0

author

John Collins dev@alphaframework.org

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Table of Contents

Properties

$instance  : ViewState

The view state object singleton.

$markdownTextBoxRows  : string

The amount of rows to expand the Markdown edit TextBox by.

$renderAdminMenu  : bool

If the backend admin menu should be displayed or not.

$selectedStart  : int

The start position of the last pagination page by the user.

$selectedTab  : string

The name of the last selected tab by the user.

Methods

get()  : string|null

Get the attribute value indicated by the key.

getInstance()  : ViewState

Get the ViewState instance. Loads from $_SESSION if its not already in memory, otherwise a new instance will be returned with empty properties.

set()  : void

Sets the attribute value indicated by the key. The ViewState instance will be serialized and saved back to the $_SESSION.

__construct()  : mixed

Private constructor means the class cannot be instantiated from elsewhere.