[pmwiki-users] pmwiki-2.2.0-beta9 release (bugfix, pagevar filters in pagelists)

[Patrick R. Michaud]

I've just released pmwiki-2.2.0-beta9, now available at
    http://www.pmwiki.org/pub/pmwiki/pmwiki-2.2.0-beta9.tgz
    http://www.pmwiki.org/pub/pmwiki/pmwiki-2.2.0-beta9.zip
    svn://pmwiki.org/pmwiki/tags/latest

This release fixes a bug with $EnablePageListProtect that would
allow the names of read-protected pages to appear in pagelists
(the bug was introduced in 2.2.0-beta3).

This release also allows the results of pagelist output to
now be filtered by page variables and page text variables.
For example, to get a list of all pages with the string "apple"
in the title:

    (:pagelist $Title=*alpha* fmt=#title:)

The matching algorithm uses simple case-insensitive wildcard 
matching, so a list of all pages with titles beginning with "a" 
might look like:

    (:pagelist $Title=a* fmt=#title:)

Page text variables can also be used as filters, so the following
would get a list of all pages where the $:State page text variable
is "TX":

    (:pagelist $:State=TX :)

Multiple values can be separated by commas, thus to get all
pages with "State: CA", "State: TX", or "State: AK" :

    (:pagelist $:State=CA,TX,AK :)

At present there's not a way to exclude certain values; I'll
probably add this in an upcoming beta release.

The cookbook already has a number of pages that make it easy
to experiment with this feature -- for example, doing a 
search of "cookbook/ $:Status=*stable*" on pmwiki.org 
returns a list of all of the "stable" cookbook recipes
(i.e., those that have "stable" somewhere in their "Status:" line).

Comments welcomed as always.

Pm