[pmwiki-devel] PmWiki router posted to cookbook

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 10:32:06PM -0600, pmwikiusers.mmajor at dfgh.net wrote:
> A router recipe has been posted to the cookbook at
> http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/Router
> 
> Router allows a website's url structure to be different from PmWiki's
> group/page structure.
> 
> 
> Development issue:
> 
> Router currently requires that it be executed before calling pmwiki.php.  If
> it's permissible to change the value of $pagename from the config.php file,
> I could make installation simpler and do everything from config.php.
> 
> I've tried it, and it appears to work, but I don't completely understand
> what's going on in pmwiki.php(2.2.0beta63) lines 296-306, so I'm reluctant
> to do it that way.  These lines appear to filter and assign a value to
> $pagename just before the config files are included.
> 
> Any thoughts about the acceptibility of changing the value of $pagename in
> config.php?

It's completely acceptable -- PmWiki is designed to allow a config.php to
manipulate $pagename.  In fact, that's why some operations in config.php
require doing a ResolvePageName() first -- PmWiki is making it possible
for a config.php to do its own thing with pagename.

Pm