[pmwiki-users] calendars and contact lists

[Kathryn Andersen]

On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 12:46:59AM +0000, Hans wrote:
> Thursday, March 22, 2007, 12:06:30 AM, Lindsay wrote:
> 
> > Ah, that is an out-of-the-box idea.  Use a pagelist to collect and sort
> > the calendar data.  This is useful even as an ordered list, and probably
> > even if dates are completely omitted that don't have events associated
> > with them.
> 
> > Then, create some sort of calendar mark-up that formats this into a 
> > "calendar".
> 
> Pagelist can not only collect and sort data, but does format it as
> well. You can create a custom format using a formatting template.
> This is very flexible and allows conditional tests as well as all the
> usual formatting markup. There should be no need for a calendar
> markup, or function.

Except for
(a) speed (a function would probably be faster than a pagelist template)
(b) if the format requires calculations or complex string processing

Kathryn Andersen
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