gistfile1.txt

namespace Permutive {

  class dataCollection {

    protected $collection = array();
    
    public function __construct()
    {
    
    }
    
    public function setData($data = null, $transformer = null)
    {
      // save $data, $transformer
      $collection[] = array(
        "data" => $data,
        "transformer" => $transformer
      )
    }
    
    public function getData()
    {
      for_each($collection as $item) {
        // transform $data
        $transformed = array_map($item["data"],$item["transformer"]);
        // merge $data
        $array = array_unique(array_merge($array,$transformed))
      }
      // insert into template for data island javascript as Javascript object creation NOT JSON
      // return templated data
    }

  }
}


// Example

$permutive_data = new Permutive/dataCollection();

// site specific data already retreived
$some_data = {
  "section"       => "news",
  "sub_section"   => "policing",
  "article_id"    => "45",
  "article_title" => "The name of the thing",
  "internal_hash" => "g234343dsfsg4",
  "recipe_keys"   => "123|456|789"
};

// send data and transformer in
$permutive_data->setData($some_data, function($data) {
  return {
    "channel"     => $data->section,
    "category"    => $data->sub_section,
    "subcategory" => "misc",
    "title"       => $data->article_title,
    "article"     => array(
      "id"          => $data->article_id
    ),
    "recipe"      => array(
      "keywords"    => explode('|',$data->recipe_keys
    )
  }
});

// get text to render out
$out = $permutive_data->getData();