[pmwiki-users] how to access configuration variables from skin scripts

[5ko at 5ko.fr]

a.sonderhoff at gassi-tv.de writes:
> 1) Basically I have a lot of <!--file:somephp.php--> in my tmpl to fire the  
> scripts that merge the page variables and PTVs with the html/css. The  
> functions described in the link given above work just fine, configuration  
> variables (such as $FarmD, $SkinDirUrl, etc.) however are not accessible.

Add at the beginning of your scripts

  global $FarmD, $SkinDirUrl;

> a limitation as I do not need the output produced by <!--PageText--> in all  
> of the tmpl files ...   Omitting the  
> PageText special directive results in PmWiki outsmarting me and inserting  
> the PageText content just before the </body> tag. Is there any way to force  
> PmWiki to not output the PageText in certain tmpl’s?

You can add this in config.php - possibly conditionnally :

  $HandleBrowseFmt = array(&$PageStartFmt, &$PageRedirectFmt, &$PageEndFmt);

Petko