[pmwiki-users] Grouping in pagelists

[John Rankin]

On 24/10/14 7:22 AM, Simon wrote:
> Thanks John and Petko.
>
> Both solutions work.
 From memory, Petko's solution didn't work in my case.

$FmtPV['$FirstLetter'] = 'substr($FmtPV["$FirstLine"], 0, 1)';

didn't set the first letter. I think $name is one of a few special cases.

JR
> Looking generally is there any possibility of making markup 
> expressions work inside a pagelist, or is the evaluation order too 
> difficult?
>
> regards
>
>
>
> On 24 October 2014 03:34, Petko Yotov <5ko at 5ko.fr <mailto:5ko at 5ko.fr>> 
> wrote:
>
>     You can define in config.php a PageVariable containing the first 4
>     characters of the name:
>
>       $FmtPV['$Name4'] = 'substr($name, 0, 4)';
>
>     then use that variable in the pagelist template:
>
>       (:template first {=$Name4}:)
>
>     I've enabled it on the Test page you created.
>
>     Petko
>
>     On 23.10.2014 09:49, Simon wrote:
>
>         Lets say I have a lot of pages in the format
>         yyyy-mm-dd-description.
>
>         I want to group then by year.
>
>         Can anyone suggest a way of making
>
>         (:template first {(substr {=$Name} 0 4)}:)
>
>         work?
>
>         See http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Test/PageListGrouping or an
>         attempt
>
>
>     _
>

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