[Pmwiki-users] Re: Alternative to '?' for links to pages that don't exist

[Christian Ridderström]

On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 01:15:49PM +0200, Christian Ridderstr?m wrote:
> > 
> > Is there a cookbook recipy for replaing '?' with something like 
> > '[Create]'?
> 
> $WikiPageCreateFmt = "<span class='createlink'>\$LinkText</span><a 
>   class='createlink' href='\$PageUrl?action=edit'>[Create]</a>";

Do you think this is worth a cookbook page? (I could make one)

> > I also think it'd be a good idea if this link got some more attributes
> > that explains what it will do. 
> > Here's an alternative
> > 	<span class='createlink'>SomePage</span><a class='createlinkA'
> >            href='http://wiki.net/Main/SomePage?action=edit'
> >            title='Use this link to create the page "SomePage"'>[Create]</a>
> 
> $WikiPageCreateFmt = "<span class='createlink'>\$LinkText</span><a
>   class='createlink' href='\$PageUrl?action=edit' 
>   title='Use this link to create the page "\$Title_"'>[Create]</a>";

I think the title-attribute should be there by default, regardless if 
the link text is "?" or "[Create]". The drawback is a slighly larger page, 
but hopefully it will help some new users.

/Christian

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Christian Ridderstr?m                           http://www.md.kth.se/~chr