[pmwiki-users] Re edit templates: auto update dates?

[Henrik]

Patrick,

I use a whole bunch of immediate substitutions from guibuttons (actually 
links) on edit forms like this:

$GUIButtons['attach'] = array(1101, 'Uploads:{$Group}/','','',' 
[Uploads:]');

or these:

$GUIButtons['datestamp'] = array(1405, '', '', '($CustomDate)',' [date 
stamp] ');
$GUIButtons['authordatestamp'] = array(1406, '', '', '($Author - 
$CustomDate)',' [author date stamp] ');

..and they're very popular.

Intuitively, I would think that some kind of call from 
GroupName.Template.php would be the place for immediate substitution of 
template variables, though I'm not sure how it would get wired up.

immediateSubstitution("varname","value");

or in OO

templatepage->immediatesubstitution("varname","value");

??

BTW my new webhost looks really good. I'm getting a 40% performance 
improvement, and service seems as solid as a rock. Now I'm totally 
chomping at the bit to employ your new features (having finally upgraded 
from 2.1.27).

All the best,

- Henrik

Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 12:22:53PM -0400, Henrik wrote:
>   
>> Regarding http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/EditTemplates
>>
>> Is it possible to automatically update dates, to that the imported text 
>> contains the current date (as text, not as a variable).
>>
>> So for example if creating a page today, I would like the title, as 
>> imported from the template, to have in the edit textbox
>>
>> !!!!Farmers' Market news for April 10, 2008
>>
>> Where the date is written in as clear text from the template.
>>     
>
> At present I don't think there's a way to do this.  I've been
> thinking about ways to have "immediate substitutions" like
> this done, but haven't come up with anything I particularly
> like yet (which is why we don't have it).
>
> Pm
>
>   

-- 

Henrik Bechmann
www.bechmann.ca
Webmaster, www.dufferinpark.ca

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