[pmwiki-users] How to refer to active page from sidebar?

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 11:34:10PM +0100, f.r.salomons wrote:
> 
> Not having any scripting/programming experience, I need some help.
> 
> 1. For my website, I would like to add an option for visitors to log in 
> and log out from any page, whilst showing the present 
> login/logout-status of the visitor. I figured out that this might be 
> done with something like the following:
> 
> (:if ! authid:) You are not logged in presently. Would you like to 
> [[{$FullName}?action=login | log in?]]
> (:ifend:)
> (:if authid:)
> You are logged in as {$AuthId}. Would you like to 
> [[{$FullName}?action=logout | log out?]]
>   (:ifend:)

Use {*$FullName} instead of {$FullName}.  {*$var} refers to the
"active page" instead of the page that contains the markup.

> 2. A further question: instead of adding my above-described 
> login/logout-option to the sidebar, I would also like to be able to add 
> it to the space between the logo and the searchbox. How can I do that?

You would probably need to modify the skin template for this --
it depends on the skin you are using.

Pm