[Pmwiki-users] robots

[Christian Ridderström]

On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 02:15:29AM +0100, Christian Ridderstr?m wrote:
> > > If not, I'd like to see the code added to PmWiki itself.
> > 
> > Another solution is to use meta tags
> > [...]
> > where I wrote '$DisableAutoRobots' rather than '$EnableAutoRobots' since I 
> > think you'd like this function enabled by default.
> 
> >From a style + consistency perspective I've chosen to always
> name switches with $EnableXXX, even for functions that are enabled by default.
> To disable a function, one would do $EnableXXX=0;
> 
> In PmWiki modules, a function that is enabled by default is wrapped with
> 
>     if (!isset($EnableXXX) || $EnableXXX) {
>       ...
>     }
> 
> and a function that is disabled by default is wrapped with
> 
>     if (@$EnableXXX) {
>       ...
>     }
> 
> Take a look at scripts/stdconfig.php for some examples.

I knew that, but there was a reason I used $Disable... can't remember why 
right now though. Maybe something about the variable not having to 
actually have been defined in order to have it activated as default, 
although that's a pretty weak reason.

> 
> I'll definitely add the robots-exclusion code to PmWiki (in the 0.5.x
> series, rather than waiting for 0.6 to be released).

Good (I think I'm already using the above code AFAIK)

/Christian

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