[pmwiki-users] PmWiki group configuration for dummies

[Donald Z. Osborn]

Okay, this gets dumber then:

WikiGroups are very easy to set up, but in the documentation I've gone
through as well as in your letter, a group.php file is mentioned (I believe
this is the same thing as what you call groupname.php).

For example, I can set up the GefelteFish group as easily as any other. But
now I want a skin for that group only.
1) Am I defining this in config.php or in a special folder or file? It
appears to be one of the latter. But I find no instructions or examples how
to do that.
2) If it should be a file in the local folder, how/what would a
GefelteFish.php look like (there is no sample-group.php file AFAIK)?
3) If group.php in a subfolder "GefelteFish" then the same question - what
would go in the file in addition to the skins specification?
4) Then would one or the other need a pointer in the config.php file?

I think I'm missing something obvious here. WIth apologies.... hopefully
once I get past this, the language and password issues will be easy with the
info below...

Don



On 10/8/06, Crisses < crisses at kinhost.org> wrote:
>
>
> On Oct 7, 2006, at 11:15 PM, Donald Z. Osborn wrote:
>
> > A couple of questions from a true non expert in this:
> >
> > 1. When I create a new wikigroup that's simple enough. (I believe
> > that that is reflected only in the file(s) added to the wiki.d
> > folder - ?)
> >
> > 2. Changing a skin in the config file is straightforward.
> >
> > 3. BUT, when it comes to setting skins for groups, I don't follow.
> > In one place it seemed like there were alternative suggestions to
> > add lines in the config file (but I didn't get the syntax) or
> > create local/Group.php files. I think I'm missing an essential
> > piece of the logic in how all this is set up
> >
> > My need is to set up 50+ groups (initially of one page each) with
> > * a skin setting for each (all the same to start but option to
> > change individual ones later)
> > * different language settings (many English, many French, a few
> > Portuguese. I'll get to the language later, I think, but maybe
> > those commands should be done at the same time; language will be
> > set once and for all for each case, in principle
>
> Skins & Languages:
> http://pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/Internationalizations tells you how to
> set up the language translations
>
> Thus you can make a local/GroupName.php
>
> <?php if (!defined('PmWiki')) exit();
>
> //change to French language
> XLPage('fr','PmWikiFr.XLPage');
>
> // Set the skin for the group
> $Skin = 'french';
>
> Since this file is only read when loading a page in a specific group,
> it sets the skin for any pages viewed in that group.
>
> > * password setup: one existing edit & one admin for all, but with
> > option to set individual passwords for groups
>
> The overall is set in config.php:
>
> $DefaultPasswords['admin'] = crypt('secret');
> $DefaultPasswords['edit'] = crypt('nosecret');
>
> The individual group passwords are set in GroupName.GroupAttributes?
> action=attr in the wiki itself ("GroupName" needs to change to the
> name of the group... i.e. Main/GroupAttributes, PmWiki/
> GroupAttributes).  That option always exists from within the wiki,
> and you can create a group of people able to set the attributes
> (passwords) of pages and groups.  See the PmWiki/AuthUser directions
> for using groups in PmWiki:
>
> $DefaultPasswords['attr'] = '@moderators';
>
> > What is the simplest way to do set up such configurations for
> > multiple groups? What is the most flexible way to do this? Are
> > these the same?
>
> I don't know any other way to do this.  Other people can chime in --
> but these are the basic directions.
>
> Crisses
>
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