MEDIUM: remove metadata from the current page

code/DocumentationParser.php

@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ class DocumentationParser {
 	public static function parse(DocumentationPage $page, $baselink = null) {
 		if(!$page || (!$page instanceof DocumentationPage)) return false;
 
-		$md = $page->getMarkdown();
+		$md = $page->getMarkdown(true);
 		
 		// Pre-processing
 		$md = self::rewrite_image_links($md, $page);

code/DocumentationService.php

@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ class DocumentationService {
 	 * @param bool $allow
 	 */
 	public static function enable_meta_comments($allow = true) {
-		self::$meta_comments_enabled = ($allow)? true: false;
+		self::$meta_comments_enabled = (bool) $allow;
 	} 
 	
 	/**

code/models/DocumentationPage.php

@@ -255,7 +255,7 @@ class DocumentationPage extends ViewableData {
 	 *
 	 * @return string
 	 */
-	function getMarkdown() {
+	function getMarkdown($removeMetaData = false) {
 		try {
 			$path = $this->getPath(true);
 
@@ -264,7 +264,7 @@ class DocumentationPage extends ViewableData {
 								
 				if(empty($ext) || DocumentationService::is_valid_extension($ext)) {
 					if ($md = file_get_contents($path)) {
-						if ($this->title != 'Index') $this->getMetadataFromComments($md);
+						if ($this->title != 'Index') $this->getMetadataFromComments($md, $removeMetaData);
 					}  
 					return $md;
 				}   
@@ -287,25 +287,39 @@ class DocumentationPage extends ViewableData {
 	}
 	
 	/**
-	 * get metadata from the first html comments block in the page
+	 * get metadata from the first html block in the page, then remove the 
+	 * block on request
 	 * 
 	 * @param DocumentationPage $md
+	 * @param bool $remove
 	 */
-	public function getMetadataFromComments($md = '') {
+	public function getMetadataFromComments(&$md, $removeMetaData = false) {
 		if($md && DocumentationService::meta_comments_enabled()) {
-			//$pattern = '/^<!--(.*?)-->/Uis';
+			
-			$pattern = "/^(.+)\n(\r)*\n/Uis";
+			// get the text up to the first whiteline
-			$matches = preg_match($pattern, $md, $block);
+			$extPattern = "/^(.+)\n(\r)*\n/Uis";
+			$matches = preg_match($extPattern, $md, $block);
 			if($matches && $block[1]) {
-				$pattern = '/(?<key>[A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9_-]+)[\t]*:[\t]*(?<value>[^:\n\r\/]+)/x';
+				$metaDataFound = false;
-				$matches = preg_match_all($pattern, $block[1], $meta);
+				
+				// find the key/value pairs
+				$intPattern = '/(?<key>[A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9_-]+)[\t]*:[\t]*(?<value>[^:\n\r\/]+)/x';
+				$matches = preg_match_all($intPattern, $block[1], $meta);
+				
 				foreach($meta['key'] as $index => $key) {
 					if(isset($meta['value'][$index])) {
+						
+						// check if a property exists for this key
 						if (property_exists(get_class(), $key)) {
 							$this->setMetaData($key, $meta['value'][$index]);
+							$metaDataFound = true;
 						}  
 					}
 				}
+				// optionally remove the metadata block (only on the page that is displayed)
+				if ($metaDataFound && $removeMetaData) {
+					$md = preg_replace($extPattern, '', $md);
+				}
 			}
 		}
 	} 	

docs/en/Configuration-Options.md

@@ -63,12 +63,7 @@ Custom metadata can be added to the head of the MarkDown file like this:
 	
 
 Make sure to add an empty line to separate the metadata from the content of
-the file. To make the metadata invisible on the page, you can use a comment tag:
+the file. 
-
-	<!--
-	pagenumber: 1
-	title: A custom title
-	-->
 
 You now need to explicitly enable the use of metadata by adding the following to 
 your _config.php: