-=head2 GetColumnDefs
-
- my $columns = GetColumnDefs( $cgi )
-
-It is passed a CGI object and returns a hash of hashes containing
-the column names and descriptions for each table defined in the
-columns.def file corresponding to the CGI object.
-
-=cut
-
-sub GetColumnDefs {
-
- my $query = shift;
-
- my $columns = {};
-
- my $htdocs = C4::Context->config('intrahtdocs');
- my $columns_file = 'columns.def';
-
- # Get theme and language to build the path to columns.def
- my ($theme, $lang, $availablethemes) =
- themelanguage($htdocs, 'about.tt', 'intranet', $query);
- # Build columns.def path
- my $path = "$htdocs/$theme/$lang/$columns_file";
- my $fh;
- if ( ! open ( $fh, q{<}, $path ) ) {
- carp "Error opening $path. Check your templates.";
- return;
- }
- # Loop through the columns.def file
- while ( my $input = <$fh> ){
- chomp $input;
- if ( $input =~ m|<field name="(.*)">(.*)</field>| ) {
- my ( $table, $column ) = split( '\.', $1);
- my $description = $2;
- # Initialize the table array if needed.
- @{$columns->{ $table }} = () if ! defined $columns->{ $table };
- # Push field and description
- push @{$columns->{ $table }},
- { field => $column, description => $description };
- }
- }
- close $fh;
-
- return $columns;
-}
-