static function &create($file_path)
{
#
# a little bit of magic here to find any classes which extend 'Asset'
#
self::get_asset_subclasses();
# if the file path isn't passed through as a string, return an empty data array
$data = array();
if (!is_string($file_path)) {
return $data;
}
# split by file extension
preg_match('/\\.([\\w\\d]+?)$/', $file_path, $split_path);
if (isset($split_path[1]) && !is_dir($file_path)) {
# set the default asset type
$asset = 'Asset';
# loop through our asset_subclasses to see if this filetype should be handled in a special way
foreach (self::$asset_subclasses as $asset_type => $identifiers) {
# if a match is found, set $asset to be the name of the matching class
if (in_array(strtolower($split_path[1]), $identifiers)) {
$asset = $asset_type;
}
}
# extract any page data scoped against the asset filename
$page_data = self::extract_page_data($file_path);
# create a new asset and return its data
$asset = new $asset($file_path);
# Parse the page data
$page_data = PageData::parse_vars($page_data, true, "");
# Merge original data with associated page data
$merged_data = array_merge($asset->data, $page_data);
return $merged_data;
} else {
# new page
$page = new Page(Helpers::file_path_to_url($file_path));
return $page->data;
}
}
