[pmwiki-users] self-links: Better check including "action"?

Patrick R. Michaud pmichaud at pobox.com
Sun May 15 09:59:26 CDT 2011


On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 04:42:05PM +0200, Oliver Betz wrote:
> Petko Yotov wrote:
> 
> >> http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/TrackingMenu shows (at the end of
> >> the page) how to avoid self-links.
> >> 
> >> But this breaks the default "view" action.
> >> 
> >> I can add "action=browse" to the action link, but wouldn't it be
> >> better PmWiki recognised the ?action part, too?
> >
> >Something like this?
> >
> >  if($action == "browse")
> >    $LinkPageSelfFmt = "<span class='selflink'>\$LinkText</span>"; 
> I would prefer if PmWiki detected the different links including the
> "action" part. Example:
> On http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/TrackingMenu?action=diff a link
> to http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/TrackingMenu should not be
> detected as "Selflink".
> 
> The reverse case: On
> http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/TrackingMenu?action=diff the
> action link to "diff" _should_ be detected as "Selflink". Currently it
> doesn't.
> 
> This way it would be simpler to decorate the action links with CSS.
> The PHP code e.g. used by Cookbook/MonobookSkin wouldn't be necessary.
> 
> Anything I'm missing?

I can't tell from the above description if you're referring
to page links or url addresses.  So I'll try to restate
the above cases in terms I can cope with.  :-)

When looking at the history page for the Cookbook.TrackingMenu page,
(i.e., ?action=diff), any links in the diff content that are to 
Cookbook.TrackingMenu *should* be treated as self-links, because 
the diff output is supposed to show what would be seen when a 
person is viewing the normal page (and in that case, the link 
would be a selflink).

The "selflink" feature means "refers to the current PmWiki page".
It's unrelated to actions.

It sounds like you're looking for a way to style "refers to the
same url".  The "selflink" class isn't intended to be that.

I suspect there are ways to do what you're wanting to do without
having to introduce a lot of changes to PmWiki's core.

Pm



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