[pmwiki-users] $FarmPubDirUrl not being set

[marc]

Patrick R. Michaud said...
> On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 12:23:40PM -0000, marc wrote:
> > 
> > While testing Hans' update to commentboxplus, which separates the .css 
> > into a file, I found that it returns:
> > 
> >   <link href='/css/commentboxplus.css' rel='stylesheet' 
> >      type='text/css' /><script type="text/javascript">
> > 
> > from
> > 
> >   # load commentbox.css for styling
> >   SDV($HTMLHeaderFmt['cbplus'], "
> >     <link href='$FarmPubDirUrl/css/commentboxplus.css' rel='stylesheet'   
> >       type='text/css' />");
> > 
> > indicating that $FarmPubDirUrl isn't set, in my case. 
> > [...]
> > Any ideas what's amiss? (pmwiki-2.2.0-beta15)
> 
> It looks to me as though $FarmPubDirUrl is being evaluated too
> soon because of the double-quotes around the string.

Ah, that's a useful thing to know. Something to keep an eye on 
elsewhere.

> There
> probably needs to be a backslash in front of the dollar sign:
> 
>   # load commentbox.css for styling
>   SDV($HTMLHeaderFmt['cbplus'], "
>     <link href='\$FarmPubDirUrl/css/commentboxplus.css' rel='stylesheet'   
>       type='text/css' />");
> 
> This way $FarmPubDirUrl will be evaluated (by FmtPageName)
> when the heading is being output, as opposed to the current
> version that does the substitution when commentboxplus.php
> is loaded (which occurs before skin loading).

Gotcha. Thanks. It's working now and I double checked that this was the 
cause.

-- 
Best,
Marc