[pmwiki-users] Catogory logistics(WAS: onover-bundling)

[V.Krishn]

On Wednesday 09 March 2005 11:50, pmwiki-users-request at pmichaud.com wrote:
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> The magic is in the Category.GroupFooter page.  Category.GroupFooter
> contains markup to be added to the end of every page in the
> Category group, and I've set the group footer to be:
>
>     (:pagelist Category.{$Name} fmt=simple list=normal:)
Shouldn't this be just:
      (:pagelist {$Name} fmt=simple list=normal:) ?
>
> This markup says to generate a simple list of "normal" pages that
> have Category.{$Name} in them.  When this page is rendered, {$Name} is
> replaced by the name of the "current" page, so for Category.Uploads
> this markup will be treated as:
>
>     (:pagelist Category.Uploads fmt=simple list=normal:)
>
> which is just a simple list of all (normal) pages on the site that
> have Category.Uploads in them, either as text or a link.  In other
> words, display all pages that reference the current page, which
> is what we wanted.  Isn't that cool?  And note that this works
> for any page in the Category group, including pages that haven't
> been created yet.  Very nice.
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This confuses me. Technically none of the wiki pages would have 
"Category.Uploads" in them as TEXT.
...As for having them as LINK, this would mean that caterory searching 
logic/code would be taking each wiki page then either:
1. processing the wiki text fully, in which case its a very-Heavy-load on the 
server.
OR 
2. just taking every wiki page and look for the word [[!{$Name}]] and then 
process the word to generate link, in which case its again a little 
processing load on the server.

Some insight would be great.
>A quick note of caution, I plan to be revising the pagelist.php
>function a bit so don't rely on its internals too deeply.
>Anything that has been documented somewhere in a cookbook or
>on the mailing list will continue to work; but other internals
>may change.
I guess things would be clear by then :)

V.Krishn