[pmwiki-users] New PageListExtensions Recipe

[Martin Fick]

I finally implemented as a recipe a series of
extensions to pagelists that I have been wanting for a
while now: Cookbook/PageListExtensions

This recipe defines these new pagelist options: 
  groupcount     to specify how many groups to
                 iterate through
  pergroupcount  to specify how many pages per group
                 to iterate through
  blank          to specify a page to include if the
                 pagelist is blank

Note: the new {$$option} (see below) markup is
available inside the blank page.


This recipe also defines these new pagelist variables:


 {$PageTotal} the number of pages that would have
              been returned without a count,
              groupcount, or pergroupcount
 {$GroupTotal} the number of groups that would have
              been returned without a count,
              groupcount, or pergroupcount

Finally, this recipe defines a special markup
{$$option}. This new markup makes the options used in
the pagelist directive available inside of pagelist
templates. The special case {$$} returns the entire
option string. Some examples: 

 {$$count} displays the value of the count option

 A custom option: 
 (:pagelist lyric='Hello My Darling' ...:)
 {$$lyric} displays Hello My Darling


There is also a live example of this recipe here:
http://www.theficks.name/test/PageListExtensions/pmwiki.php?n=Test.PageListOption

As always, feedback highly encouraged,

-Martin

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