[pmwiki-users] Conditional Extensions

[Russell Bailey]

I believe that you can test for any condition by preceding it with a !.

Martin Fick wrote:

>Has there been any thought to creating conditional
>extensions that would include == and != ?
>I know that for most conditions this is not needed since a
>conditions typically imply ==.  But, I am working on an
>extension which would create many new variables and did not
>think it very elegant to have to create a condition for
>each one of these variables? i.e.
>
>A few variables I will create --  conditions needed
>
>{$PageList.Name}                  pagelist.name
>{$PageList.Group}                 pagelist.group
>{$PageList.PageCount}             pagelist.pagecount
>...
>
>I have about ten of these.
>
>
>It would seem much more elegant to simply create the variables
>on the right and then to use a condition such as
>
>(:if {$PageList.Group} == Photos :)
>
>instead of 
>
>(:if pagelist.group Photos :)
>
>I realixe this is not the pmwiki way; is that because it is
>considered too complicated, or somehow open to abuse?
>
>Does anyone have any thoughts on this?
>
>Also any thoughts on ways to nest conditions?
>
>-Martin
>
>
>
>PS.  In case anyone is interested, I am in the process of
>creating a pagelist templating cookbook which allows the
>output of a pagelist to be controlled by a wikipage
>template.  It works great so far, I will upload after this
>issue is a little more clear to me.
>
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