[pmwiki-users] $Name changed to *$FullName

[Matt Strauser]

Thanks for the reply.
Hans, I wonder if you should post your detailed reply on pmwiki.org?



On Dec 18, 2007 2:21 PM, Hans <design5 at softflow.co.uk> wrote:

> Tuesday, December 18, 2007, 5:21:36 PM, Matt Strauser wrote:
>
> > Was {$Name} replaced with {*$FullName}
>
> > As in:
> > [[{$Name}?action=edit | Edit ]]
>
> > changed to:
>
> > [[{*$FullName}?action=edit | $[Edit] ]]
>
>
> > Could someone point me to a page at pmwiki.org that discusses this?
>
> See PmWiki/ReleaseNotes about 2.2.0 beta.
> I quote:
>
> * Page variables and page links inside of (:include:) pages are now
> treated as relative to the included page, instead of the currently
> browsed page. In short, the idea is that links and page variables
> should be evaluated with respect to the page in which they are
> written, as opposed to the page in which they appear. This seems to be
> more in line with what authors expect. There are a number of important
> ramifications of this change:
>
> * We now have a new {*$var} form of page variable, which always refers
> to "the currently displayed page". Pages such as Site.PageActions and
> Site.EditForm that are designed to work on "the currently browsed
> page" should generally switch to using {*$FullName} instead of
> {$FullName}.
>
> * The $EnableRelativePageLinks and $EnableRelativePageVars settings
> control the treatment of links and page variables in included pages.
> However, to minimize disruption to existing sites,
> $EnableRelativePageVars defaults to disabled. This will give existing
> sites an opportunity to convert any absolute {$var} references to be
> {*$var} instead.
>
> * Eventually $EnableRelativePageVars will be enabled by default, so we
> highly recommend setting $EnableRelativePageVars = 1; in
> local/config.php to see how a site will react to the new
> interpretation. Administrators should especially check any customized
> versions of the following:
> Site.PageActions
> Site.EditForm
> Site.PageNotFound
> SideBar pages with ?action= links for the current page
> $GroupHeaderFmt, $GroupFooterFmt
> Page lists that refer to the current group or page, etc in sidebars,
> headers, and footers
>
> * The (:include:) directive now has a basepage= option whereby an
> author can explicitly specify the page upon which relative links and
> page variables should be based. If no basepage= option is specified,
> the included page is assumed to be the base.
>
>
> Hans
>
>
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