[pmwiki-devel] Puzzled about pagelists returning search results

[Simon]

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On Mon, 26 Oct 2026 at 06:53, Petko Yotov <5ko at 5ko.fr> wrote:

> On 21/10/2026 21:34, Simon wrote:
> > I'm, wondering if perhaps (:template defaults request=-group req=1
> >
> > does not work?
>
> Indeed, the attributes req= and request= should be added to the
> (:pagelist:) directive, not to a (:template default:) directive.
>
> They are handled early, before the pagelist "template default" are
> parsed.
>
> If there is req= at that early time and there is no search query
> (?q=term in the URL), the function exits at that point, it doesn't load
> the templates.
>
> Similarly for request=, the pagelist attributes like
> request=group,fmt,order , that are derived from the $_REQUEST array, are
> also merged early. If there are request= attributes in "template
> default", these are ignored.
>
> It always behaved in this order. If we change the order and handle these
> after "template default" is parsed, it may break something else.
>
> We should document this clearly.
>
> Petko
>
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