[pmwiki-users] Getting an URL from a cookbook recipe

Dominique Faure dominique.faure at gmail.com
Wed Jan 25 09:52:40 CST 2006


2006/1/25, Patrick R. Michaud <pmichaud at pobox.com>:
> On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 04:17:42PM +0100, Dominique Faure wrote:
> > I often need to catch urls from cookbook recipe's markup extensions,
> > whatever form it could have (according to PmWiki syntax). For now, the
> > easiest way I found to do that was to "regexp" clean the MakeLink
> > function output:
> >
> > Markup('mymarkup', 'directives',
> >   "/\\(:mymarkup\\s+(.*)\\s*:\\)/e",
> >   "MyMarkupFunc(\$pagename, PSS('$1'))");
> >
> > function MyMarkupFunc($pagename, $target) {
> >   $link = preg_replace("/.*href='([^']+)'.*/", '\1',
> > MakeLink($pagename, $target, ''));
> >
> >   # ...
> > }
> >
> > This working solution has several drawbacks, as for example not
> > allowing to know if the given url needs approbation or not.
> >
> > Any better idea would be appreciated.
>
> I think I need a fuller description of what you're trying to
> accomplish -- perhaps a more concrete example.
>

As a concrete example you may refer to the
http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/PTViewer recipe which take a
file=... parameter. This param should allow all PmWiki standards to
refer to an image file. In fact, the problem arise everywhere you want
to address external resources.




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