[pmwiki-users] selfgroup class & $GroupHeaderFmt

[noskule]

Patrick R. Michaud schrieb:

>On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 07:22:20PM +0100, noskule wrote:
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>>hi list
>>I would like to use  a page like left sidebar or  HorizontalNav (in 
>>NetstreamsSkin) as kind of sitedirectory that shows the existing 
>>groups(with links  points to there homepages) an highlights the current 
>>group. So with selflink I can highlight the current page. Now, is there 
>>a way tho hilight  Links that points to homepages  if there groupname is 
>>equal with the name of the current group?  It could probably be done 
>>with conditional markup, but the problem there is to overwrite  the 
>>linkclass via css, cause every link is allready specified. Most nice it 
>>would be if it could assigned to  *.PageName via skin.php
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>Awww, it's easy.  Try formatting your sidebar this way:
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>    %define=hl-{$Group} bgcolor=yellow%
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>    * %hl-Main% [[Main.WikiSandbox]]
>    * %hl-Main% [[Main.HomePage]]
>    * %hl-OtherGroup% [[OtherGroup.SomeWhere]]
>    * %hl-OtherGroup% [[OtherGroup.SomeWhereElse]]
>    * %hl-PmWiki% [[PmWiki.DocumentationIndex]]
>    * %hl-PmWiki% [[PmWiki.BasicEditing]]
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>When  you're in the Main group, the Main.* entries will be highlighted,
>when in the PmWiki group, the PmWiki.* entries will be highlighted, etc.
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>Of course, you can also do things like:
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>    %define=hl-{$Group} bgcolor=yellow%
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hm, it  did try it on
* http://pmwiki.netstreams.org/index.php/Site/HorizontalNav
* http://www.netstreams.org/pmwiki_clean
not shure if I'm doing somthing wrong . . . . it seams to sometimes work 
somtimes not . . .

>    >>hl-Main<<
>    * [[Main.WikiSandbox]]
>    * [[Main.HomePage]]
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>    >>hl-OtherGroup<<
>    * [[OtherGroup.SomeWhere]]
>    * [[OtherGroup.SomeWhereElse]]
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>    >>hl-PmWiki<<
>    * [[PmWiki.DocumentationIndex]]
>    * [[PmWiki.BasicEditing]]
>    >><<
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>and it will just highlight the appropriate section.
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>There are, of course, *lots* of other ways to do this, but this
>is the one that popped up in my head first.
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>>somthing else . .. I did try to disable GroupHeaderFmt in skins.php, but 
>>this didnt work. In config php it works.
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>>$GroupHeaderFmt = '';
>>$GroupFooterFmt = '';
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>>Could this somhow also be done in skins.php or are there reasons to not 
>>do it?
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>In skins.php you have to declare any global variables, thus it
>should be
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>    global $GroupHeaderFmt;
>    $GroupHeaderFmt = '';
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>Or, use     
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>    $GLOBALS['GroupHeaderFmt'] = '';
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>Pm
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>yep, works . ..thanxs
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