[Pmwiki-users] intuitive learning

Saant saant
Wed Feb 25 09:36:15 CST 2004


> You're thinking of something like the "tip of the day" window that pops up
> with a new tip each time you start the program?
> Not a bad idea, but I would suggest it be used in addition to the existing
> QuickReference.  What I'm thinking is the QuickReference would be in it's
> own box, like it is now.. And the QuickTip would be off to the right of
the
> edit window.

I'm not sure I have a use for such a QuickTips add-on, but I'd still like to
help contribute ideas on how it could possibly work for anyone that is
planning to write such a script.  Mainly, the comments below are just me
brainstorming as I type.

* It should be simple (just include it in config.php for it to work, then in
any wiki page, (or page template?), you include $InsertQuickTip, which then
replaces the $Variable with the appropriate text.

* The text should be valid Wiki text, that way the tips could potentially be
added and edited by users, and of course, they'd be contained in a Group
called QuickTips!

* The tips would be randomly (or sequenctially?) drawn from pages in the
QuickTips Group.

* Care should be taken not to accidently use the QuickTips.RecentChanges or
other non-tip pages that may be automatically generated by PmWiki.  A list
of these such pages could be contained in an array, that way future
revisions of PmWiki could be easily accomidated by simply adding them to the
array.

* The QuickTips.PageNames should be aptly named so that anybody looking at
the title of the page will be immediately aware of it's contents.
Similarily, doing an empty Search in the QuickTips group will provide a list
of all existing Tips so that they can be easily edited or appended to.  Tip1
Tip2 Tip3 etc, are not good names for tips unless you don't care about
editing them later on.

* To build on this concept, you may also want to build some functionality in
to the QuickTips idea by say, renameing the QuickTips to Advertisements.
Then on select pages, you could have $Advertisement, and of course, a
randomly generated Advertisement would be selected from the Advertisements
group.  Possibly utilizing banners or other images.   Advertisement doesn't
have to be the bad for of advertising, it could be something like a "What's
New" .. and have what's new messages or images instead of Ads.

* I'm just trying to stretch this interesting concept to cover as many
"possible uses" as I can think of, how about (another) version of a
PhotoGallery.  Could be some interesting ways to make that work utilizing
the [[include:]] directive.

* Finally, you could maybe find a way to password (edit/view) protect the
QuickTips or Advertisement or PhotoAlbum Groups, but allow their contents to
be read by the add-on script (QuickTips script?).

That's all for now.  Good luck.

--S





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