[Pmwiki-users] Page preview can now be implemented rather easy

[Patrick R. Michaud]

BTW, just so everyone knows--I'm still planning to add a real "preview"
feature to PmWiki--I just needed to get the other formatting items out
of the way first.

However, this discussion does point out something I mentioned earlier,
which is that a preview version of a page probably won't look exactly 
like the displayed page because some customized headers, footers, 
GroupHeader, included pages, style sheets, etc. may not all be present
in the edit page output.  Anyone have any suggestions about the way
this *should* work?

Should the preview attempt to render $PageHeaderFmt, $PageFooterFmt, etc.,
and do all of the associated file includes, or should the preview
just output the page itself?

Pm


On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 10:07:08AM +1200, John Rankin wrote:
> Bernhard, that is very useful.
> 
> Using your idea, I created a short script that does the same thing for a standard PmWiki install -- an adminitrator just includes preview.php (available on request). It introduces a preview action and a HandlePreview function.
> 
> Where I have got stuck is dealing with [[...]] directives, such as [[include: or [[nogroupheader]] in the preview.
> 
> Both the PrintText function and $PageEditFmt by default use $Text, so if I change $Text to deal with [[...]] stuff, it will also change the form contents, which I clearly don't want. I assume there is a way I can tell the array that defines the preview screen display to pass a $PreText parameter to PrintText, as you have done, and use $Text in the form, but I haven't tried it yet.
> 
> Incidentally, based on seeing how the HandlePost function works, you may need to write:
>    $newtext=str_replace("\r","",stripslashes($HTTP_POST_VARS["text"]));
> This might be why your InlineReplacements aren't working.
> 
> I also have a minor, but annoying, problem of leading and trailing 'return' characters being stripped off. So my GroupFooter which starts with ---- keeps getting turned into 2 em dashes (SmartQuotes finds inline --, because the ---- is no longer at the start of a line and doesn't get turned into a <hr />).
> -- 
> John Rankin
> 
> On Monday, 16 June 2003 7:28 AM, Bernhard.Weichel at t-online.de wrote:
> 
> Hello Patrick,
> 
> due to the new features in 0.5.x (in particular PrintText) it is now
> possible to implement the highly desired page preview feature. Here is the
> code, I am using.
> 
>  else if ($myaction=="edit" | $myaction=="preview")
>    {
>     global $HTTP_POST_VARS, $Text;
>     $newtext=$HTTP_POST_VARS["text"];     // don't know how the text should be processed
>                                           // it seems that fixing inlines must be done here
>     if ($newtext=="") {$newtext=$Text;}   // if preview was called directly, not via edit
> 
>     if ($myaction=="preview") {PrintText($pagename, $newtext);}
> 
> ...
> 
> 
> 
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