[Pmwiki-users] selecting "hierarchical" customization

[Robert P. J. Day]

  ok, now that i've clued in and am working with the latest version of
pmwiki, most of my quibbles have gone away except for one -- per-group
and per-page customization, which i still think has the potential for
confusion.

if you look at scripts/stdconfig.php:

  if (IsEnabled($EnablePerGroupCust,1))
    include_once("$FarmD/scripts/pgcust.php");

it's clear that the variable and the file name *scream* that this is
for per-group customization.  however, if you look at pgcust.php, the
comment makes it clear that it's for *both* per-page and per-group,
which is not at all obvious until now:

  /* ... This script enables per-page and per-group customizations in
     the local/ subdirectory... */

and, not being an expert at PHP, i'm assuming that the loop:

for($p=$pagename;$p;$p=preg_replace('/\\.*[^.]*$/','',$p)) {
  if (file_exists("local/$p.php")) {
    include_once("local/$p.php");
    return;
  }
}

allows for more than just two levels of hierarchy.  so, if that's the
case, why not just get rid of the variable $EnablePerGroupCust, and
replace it with $EnableHierCust -- "enable hierarchical
customization", which will be equally valid regardless of how many
levels of group are some day supported?

rday