[pmwiki-users] pagelist question: more info in $matches?

[Ben Stallings]

Hello again.  I'm making some progress with my recipe to bring ADOdb 
queries into PmWiki... you can see the generic "Pager" that comes with 
ADOdb working at 
http://www.workscited.net/ben/WorksCited/AllArticlesInTheDatabase .

Unfortunately it doesn't lend itself to customization, since the 
(invalid!) HTML is hard-coded into the program.  :-P  So I've been 
studying the newest (2.2.0beta9) pagelist.php to try to figure out how I 
can best harness the existing functions to use standard pagelist 
templates.

Near as I can figure, the FmtPageList() function reads the template and 
applies it to a list of page names generated by MakePageList(). 
Unfortunately, although MakePageList can now filter by custom page 
variables (hooray!) and FPLTemplate looks like it can display custom 
page variables (hooray!), the values of those custom variables are not 
actually passed from the one function to the other, and so I'm at a loss 
to figure out how to display them.

So I have the following questions:

1) Am I mistaken here?  Is there a way for custom page variables to be 
included in the information FmtPageList plugs into the template?  (If 
so, I could focus my attention on fooling MakePageList into thinking the 
database record set is a group of pages, which would be really slick.)

2) Failing that, is my best bet to just copy the two functions into my 
recipe, rename them, and rewrite them to work with the database record 
set instead of page names?  Or is there another way to make use of the 
existing functions?

Thanks in advance!!  --Ben