[pmwiki-users] Adding something like '?action=version'? (Was:Version of Pmwiki)

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 10:18:57AM +0200, christian.ridderstrom at gmail.com wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Apr 2007, SMETS Stephane     BKS-IT wrote:
> >On one of my wiki, I put it in the template, in the footer of the page. 
> >So it is there all the time And if diag is enable, the info is also 
> >there, so is it really a need for an action in thecore of Pmwiki?
> 
> When interfacing the wiki to some other application, it's not a good idea 
> to have this information in arbitrary places.
> 
> I know there's an alternative to using 'action=' here, but I can't 
> remember what it's called. It's a more formal mechanism for getting data 
> and it was discussed in connection with getting the last modified time of 
> page.... aargh.

The easiest place for programs to be able to get the information
is generally either as an HTTP header

    X-PmWiki-Version:  pmwiki-2.2.0-beta42

or as an HTML meta tag

    <meta name='generator' content='pmwiki-2.2.0-beta42' />

As far as getting the last modified time of a page, I think
it's probably easiest for programs to receive metadata at
the beginning of the source text:

    #version: pmwiki-2.2.0-beta42
    #basetime: 1176383583

    Source text here...

We still need to hammer out the details for this.

Pm