Module:Icon

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

-- This is a LUA version of the Template:Icon page. 
-- I'm making this because it should run way way way faster than the 100+ switch cases used by Template:Icon

local p = {}

local iconData = mw.loadData( 'Module:Icon/data' )
local slower = string.lower

function p.Icon( frame )
    local iconName = frame.args[1]
    if not iconName then
    	return 'No such icon'	
    end
    if not iconData[iconName] then
    	iconName = slower(iconName)	
    end
    if not iconData[iconName] then
    	return 'No such icon'	
    end
    
    local bgcolor = frame.args['bgcolor']
    if not bgcolor then
    	bgcolor = 'transparent'	
    end
    
    local size = frame.args['size']
    if not size then
    	size = '20px'	
    end
    
	local retstart = '<span style="background-color: ' .. bgcolor .. '; display: inline-block;">[[File:'
	local retmid = '|' .. size .. '|'
	local retend = ']]</span>'

	-- iconData[iconName][1] is the file name.
	-- iconData[iconName][2] is the caption.
    return retstart .. iconData[iconName][1]  .. retmid .. iconData[iconName][2] .. retend
end

return p