[Pmwiki-users] Easily Hackable?

[Thomas -Balu- Walter]

On Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 11:23:41PM -0500, Eric Celeste wrote:
> > I think it's a good idea to use LongerGroupNames to simulate SubGroups is a
> > great idea.
> 
> LongerGroupNames can only simulate SubGroups to a certain extent. They are
> fine for now, in all likelihood. But when we are ready for a real
> authorization scheme, then SubGroups would be much more functional.
> SubGroups give you something to which you can attach metadata. For example,
> you could store authorization attributes to apply to the subgroup with the
> subgroup. You could specify a skin for the subgroup. You could create a php
> script for the subgroup. All of these are much harder to apply to a part of
> a LongerGroupName.

You can always use a little PHP magic in your local/config.php to enable 
special settings for all Pages which groupname start with
"SomeSubGroup".

     Balu