[pmwiki-users] why does this work ?? ( was : working with page variables )

[Marco Ferretti]

On Wednesday 17 May 2006 17:27, Américo Albuquerque wrote:
> Hello
>
> In the first case you're using an unitialized variable ($EventDate2) in
> your statement. You have to keep in mind that creating a
> $FmtPV['$EventDate2'] variable is not the same as creating a
> $EventDate2. The same reason why you can't simply use $Group or $Name
> variables in PHP.
> You can try to use PageVar to get your variable, something like:
> $FmtPV['$EventRealDate'] = 'strftime("%Y-%m-%d",
> strtotime(PageVar($pagename, \'$EventDate2\')))';
>
> Regards,
> Americo ALbuquerque
>


So, for instance, if I create a variable $TEST : 

$EventDate2 = 'StripName($pagename)';
$FmtPV['$EventRealDate'] = 'strftime("%Y-%m-%d",strtotime($EventDate2 )))';

this would work ?




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