[pmwiki-users] Re: Re: variables for customization

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 11:21:22AM +0200, chr at home.se wrote:
> I see that you read something much more complicated into my proposal than 
> what I intended... I'm simply suggesting that pmwiki.php make a function 
> available that is called 'Group()'. It should basically work like this:
> 
> 	$grp = Group();				// Case 1
> 	$grp = Group("PmWiki.SomePage");	// Case 2

So, you're basically saying that Group() should be a shortcut for
writing FmtPageName calls...?

    $grp = Group();                # $grp = FmtPageName('$Group', $pagename)
    $grp = Group($p);              # $grp = FmtPageName('$Group', $p)

I guess I can live with this.  What other helper functions are
needed?  Name()?  FullName()?

> Or possibly
> 
>    $FPLByGroupIFmt = "<dd><a href='%PageUrl%'>%Name%</a></dd>\n";

This gets back to the "when do I use %...%" versus when do I use
$... argument?  For those who really want to see the difference --
go look at a skin template.

> Ok, then that's settled.  And I think that in general if we just say
> "variables", we should be referring to PHP variables.  This means we should
> make an effort to say something else when we are not referring to PHP
> variables.

In general I've always tried to consistently use the term "variable" 
for PHP variable, "$-substitution" or "substitution" for the 
special $-items in FmtPageName, and "markup" for things like 
{$Group} and {$FullName}.

Pm