[pmwiki-users] New recipe: Fox

[Hans]

Wednesday, December 20, 2006, 3:46:30 PM, Daniel wrote:

> Now one small question:
> After click on "submit" I generate a new page in a given group called "Log".

> Is there a chance to define the name of this new page dynamically with
> the current date like:
> "Log.20061220001" where 001 is a autoincrement?

Okay here is a solution: a new page variable {$NewTicket}
which is the new ticket pagename, i.e 'Log.20061220002'
Put the variable in the Fox form as
(:fox formname redirect=1 target={$NewTicket} template=... :)
...

Put this code in config.php:

# add page variable {$NewTicket}
# creates auto increasing pagename of format  
# Log.20061220001 (date and 3 digit number)
$FmtPV['$NewTicket'] = 'MakeNewTicket()';
function MakeNewTicket() {
   foreach(ListPages('/^Log\\.\\d/') as $i) 
       $issue = max(@$issue,substr($i,4));
   $issueday = substr($issue,0,8);
   $today = strftime("%Y%m%d", time());
   if($issueday==$today) {
      $nextissue = $issue+1;
      $pagename = 'Log.'.$nextissue;
   }
   else $pagename = 'Log.'.$today.'001';
   return $pagename;    
} 

Note that this code is group specific and deals with the exact format
you wanted. I have not tried to 'generalise' it.
Original idea adapted from PITS.php, thanks Pm!


Hans