[pmwiki-users] Defining a variable in a wiki page

[Tom]

Uhm... ok.. this is done. The thread that helped me was "Is it possible
to create and use page-scoped	variables?" and Octocias notion of the
Properties Recipe.

This will suffice for me.

Best Regards,
Tom

Tom schrieb am 19.04.2006 17:13 Uhr:
> Ok.. thanks for the answer.
> 
> So with conditional there are problems. How about other markup?
> 
> Like setting a class or style and reusing that one?
> 
> (:set Name tom:)
> (:set Name1 red:)
> 
>>> class=$Name<<
> 
> %color=$Name1%
> 
> How about that ones? Obvious to see, the advantage of easy changing
> values is seeked by me.
> 
> Best Regards,
> Tom
> 
> Patrick R. Michaud schrieb am 19.04.2006 17:04 Uhr:
>> On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 04:50:03PM +0200, Tom wrote:
>>> I know i read it somwhere, but i can't seem to find it anymore.
>>>
>>> Is there a markup to define a variable in a page, that can be used lateron?
>>>
>>> (:set Name Tom:)
>>>
>>> (:if equal $Name Tom:) or something like that .... ??
>> it's being discussed (try searching the mail archives for
>> "page properties").  
>>
>> It doesn't exist in the core yet -- I'm still working out a few details.
>>
>> Part of the problem is one of sequencing -- with PmWiki's
>> existing markup rendering engine it's hard to have both
>>
>>     (:set Name Tom:)
>>     (:if equal $Name Tom:)
>>     ...
>>     (:if:)
>>
>> and
>>
>>     (:if condition:)
>>     (:set Name Tom:)
>>     ...
>>     (:if:)
>>
>> because if we process the "(:set:)" markup first, it will ignore
>> the conditional, and if we process the "(:if:)" markup first,
>> we can't use values from "(:set:)" as part of the conditional.
>>
>> Dominique Faure and I have been working out some likely solutions
>> to this, but it's still in the design stage.
>>
>> Pm
>>
>>
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