[pmwiki-users] Category Markup

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 11:09:07PM -0500, DaveG wrote:
> In order make the category markup a little more user friendly, and in 
> order to get the categories in the header, I created a markup:
> 
>    Markup('^Tags:', 'directives', '/^Tag(s?):\s(.*)/ie',
>       "PZZ(\$GLOBALS['Categories']=format_Categories('$2'))");
> 
> that takes: "Tags: tag1, tag2, tag3"
> 
> and creates the a $GLOBAL in the normal pmwiki format "[[!tag1]], 
> [[!tag2]], [[!tag3]]"
> 
> I then reference the $GLOBAL in the skin template header.
> 
> Great. Works fine. Until... clearly the problem is that when I use 
> "(:pagelist '[[!{$Name}]]' list=normal:)" in the Category.GroupFooter, 
> no pages are listed. 

Maybe use (:pagelist link=Category.{$Name} list=normal:) instead?
It's also usually faster.

> Alternatively, is there a mechanism in PmWiki to convert text (or apply 
> a 'markup' like function to the text) to true PmWiki format when the 
> user pushes save, and then convert to simple format when the user hits Edit?

Yes, via the $ROSPatterns array ("replace on save" -- see 
http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/EditVariables).

Pm