[pmwiki-users] $PageCSSListFmt

Thu Sep 21 14:53:43 CDT 2006

On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 02:40:59PM -0500, JB wrote:
> Why does it need a file reference? Why not just a url to the css?

Your question answers itself... given just a url to a css file,
how is a PHP script (i.e., PmWiki) to know if the css file exists?

Pm

> PM wrote:
> > Here's the use case that $PageCSSListFmt is intended to solve:
> > 
> >      A wiki administrator downloads and installs PmWiki, and also
> >      downloads and installs a skin from the Cookbook.  However, the
> >      administrator also needs some custom CSS to be loaded for
> >      the entire site, and also needs some additional CSS to be
> >      loaded only for pages in the XYZ group.
> > 
> >      Of course, the wiki administrator doesn't want to modify
> >      the PmWiki or skin distribution files, because that will
> >      make things difficult for upgrading later.
> > 
> >      To create the site-wide CSS, the administrator simply
> >      creates a file called pub/css/local.css .  PmWiki automatically
> >      detects that file and causes a stylesheet link for local.css
> >      to be included in the HTML <head> section of the document.
> > 
> >      For the per-group CSS, the administrator creates pub/css/XYZ.css .
> >      When a visitor views a page in the XYZ group, PmWiki automatically
> >      includes the stylesheet link to the XYZ.css in the <head> section.
> > 
> > In summary, what we want to do is make it easy for a wiki adminstrator to
> >    - add custom CSS to the output
> >    - do this on a site-wide, per-group, or per-page basis,
> >    - without having to modify any distributed skin or PmWiki files
> > 
> > If you have a less complicated way to achive this, I'll be glad to hear it.
> 
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