[pmwiki-users] off-topic: Behaviour of non-existiant home page (was: Nested groups)

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 05:06:19PM +0100, Hans wrote:
> Friday, June 3, 2005, 4:32:28 PM, Neil wrote:
> > On my wiki [[Group]] points to Group.HomePage. As far as I know, this is
> > the default behavior.
> 
> pmwiki defines:
> 
>    $DefaultGroup = 'Main';
>    $DefaultName = 'HomePage';
> 
> You can redefine it in config.php to a different default group and an
> alternative to HomePage as the default page in a group.
> 
> also pmwiki defines
> 
>    $PagePathFmt = array('$Group.$1','$1.$1','$1.$DefaultName');
> 
> which means (I think) given a name as a link or in the address bar
> it looks first if a page of that name exists in the current group,
> then if it exists in a group of the same name: Group.Group,
> then if Group.HomePage exists (or what one has defined as
> $DefaultName).
> 
> So it finds Group.HomePage only if you have not got a page
> Group.Group.

Hans has it exactly right.  This also means that [[XYZ]] will 
automatically link to XYZ.HomePage if it exists and if there are no 
pages named XYZ in the current group or in the XYZ group.

Pm