[Pmwiki-users] Overwriting page

[Philip Mateescu]

Thanks,

That looks just like what I needed. I can't wait to go home and try it :)

Thanks a lot!


Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 08:13:56AM -0500, Philip Mateescu wrote:
> 
>>I actually wanted to do it on regular view. Let's say the user creates 
>>the following page:
>>-----
>>Weather: Zip=77339
>>Stocks: Name=^IXIC ^DJI
>>Local Headlines: City=Houston,TX
>>-----
>>
>>I'd like to "intercept" pmwiki's render and overwrite the above text with:
>>-----
>>Weather: it's 88F in [[http://... Kingwood, TX]]
>>Stocks: [[http://... NASDAQ]]: 1966.08 (up 0.2%) DOW J 10240.29 (down 0.3%)
>>Local Headlines: ...
>>------
> 
> 
> $DoubleBrackets is what you're looking for.  You can do something like:
> 
>     $DoubleBrackets['/Weather:\\sZip=(\\d+)/e'] = "Weather('$1')";
> 
> where Weather() is a function that returns the string you want to replace
> the text that matches the regexp.  For example, a trivial weather function
> might look like:
> 
>     function Weather($zip) {
>       return "Weather: it's 88F in [[http://... Kingwood, TX]]";
>     }
> 
> Note that $DoubleBrackets entries are processed before link processing,
> so markups such as [[...]] and WikiWords still get processed before
> output.  However, $DoubleBrackets occurs after processing of [=...=],
> so if you want to preserve any text from being processed you have to
> do so directly by using the Keep() function.
> 
> This is described in slightly more detail at 
> http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/CustomMarkup.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> Pm
> 
> 


Best regards.
philip
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