[pmwiki-users] Automated WikiTrails.

[Dominique Faure]

On 8/30/06, Stirling Westrup <sti at pooq.com> wrote:
> Martin Fick wrote:
> > --- Stirling Westrup <sti at pooq.com> wrote:
> >
> >>> --- Stirling Westrup <sti at pooq.com> wrote:
> >> In the end I did get it all to work though. I added
> >> the following lines
> >> to my local/config.php:
> >>
> >>  global $FmtPV,$pagename,$BaseName;
> >>
> >>  #define a new list=chapters pagelist option.
> >>  $SearchPatterns['chapters'][] = '/-\\d+$/';
> >>
> >>  #Create a new {$BaseName} Page Variable which is
> >> the same as {$Name}
> >>  #but with any trailing '-' part of the name
> >> removed.
> >>  $BaseName =
> >>
> > preg_replace("/-[^-]*$/","",PageVar($pagename,'$Name'));
> >>  $FmtPV['$BaseName'] = '$GLOBALS["BaseName"]';
> >>
> >> Then I created a Stories.GroupHeader containing:
> >>
> >>  (:pagelist name={$BaseName}-* list=chapters
> >> fmt=#trailstory:)
> >
> > That was going to be my next suggestion. :) I think
> > that is a fairly elegant solution for this special
> > purpose problem.  One way to potentially make it
> > slightly more generic would be to use the
> > PageVariablesExtensions recipe with a custom function
> > which can remove the trailing part of the name.
> >
> That's one of the first things I tried. Alas, PageVariableExtensions
> don't play nicely with pagelists or it would have made the job much easier.
>

For the record, I couldn't (for now) made PageVariableExtensions work
with pagelists without modifying the pagelist markup code itself.

But this feature is near the top of my (really too long) tasklist...

Regards,
Dom