Module:Items

Documentation for this module may be created at Module:Items/doc

-- Module:Items
local p = {}

function p.createItemTableRow(frame)
  -- Get the ingredients and header passed to the module
  local items = mw.text.split(frame.args[1], ',')
  local header = frame.args[2]

  -- Store the number of items
  local numItems = #items

  -- Initialize the result string
  local result = ""

  -- define the item template to be used
  local item_template = "{{Item | name = NAME }}"

  -- if the item is wrapped in brackets, remove them
  for i, item in ipairs(items) do
    items[i] = item:gsub("%[", ""):gsub("%]", "")
  end

  -- open a table to contain the items, spannin the header by the number of items
  result = result .. "{| class=\"wikitable\" style=\"width: 100%; text-align: center;\"\n"
  result = result .. "! colspan=\"" .. numItems .. "\" | " .. header .. "\n"
  result = result .. "|-\n"
  
  -- Iterate over the items and create an item template for each
  for i, item in ipairs(items) do
    item = mw.text.trim(item)
    
    -- Replace the NAME placeholder with the item name
    local item_template = item_template:gsub("NAME", item)

    -- Append the item template to the result string
    result = result .. "| " .. item_template .. "\n"
  end

  -- close the table
  result = result .. "|}\n"

  return result
end

return p