[pmwiki-users] deleting pages

Patrick R. Michaud pmichaud at pobox.com
Thu Feb 16 18:37:25 CST 2006


On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 12:03:08AM +0000, Susan wrote:
> Mikael Nilsson <mini <at> nada.kth.se> writes:
> > As long as anyone can edit a page, they can replace it with a single
> > space or whatever anyway, so if you have a problem with deleting, you
> > should also have a problem with edit privileges in general. 
> 
> As I understand it, deleting a page removes the entire history, and to get it
> back you have to go to the backups, the copies of the files that the techie
> keeps in case of viruses or server crashes.

Tegan already answered this correctly, but just to confirm:  deleting
a page simply renames the file on disk, and preserves the history.
Although an author (via a browser) cannot recover a deleted page,
the wiki administrator can restore the page and its history by simply 
renaming or copying the file back to its original name.

> I rather like the idea of a customizable word for deleting the pages. 

This is controlled by $DeleteKeyPattern.  Just do something like:

    $DeleteKeyPattern = "^\\s*custom_delete_phrase\\s*$";

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