[pmwiki-users] Pagelists, adjunct data pages & variable sort orders

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 04:30:59AM -0400, Crisses wrote:
> On Oct 17, 2006, at 2:55 AM, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> > $FmtPV['$Year'] = 
> >   "PageTextVar('Data-'.PageVar(\$pn, '\$BaseName'), '$:Year')";
> > $FmtPV['$Work'] =
> >   "PageTextVar('Data-'.PageVar(\$pn, '\$BaseName'), '$:Work')";
> > $FmtPV['$WAuthor'] =
> >   "PageTextVar('Data-'.PageVar(\$pn, '\$BaseName'), '$:WAuthor')";

>    This didn't work....
>    I tried it out by putting 
>    {$Year}
>    {$WAuthor}
>    {$Work}
>    in the body of a Simile page, and nothing is coming back from it.  I don't
>    see why the code isn't creating output though.  Am I calling the page
>    variables correctly?

Oh, sorry, I had the second argument to PageTextVar() incorrect --
the $: should be omitted from the argument.  Try the following instead
(tested on pmwiki.org):

    $FmtPV['$Year'] = 
      "PageTextVar('Data-'.MakeBaseName(\$pn), 'Year')";

    $FmtPV['$Work'] = 
      "PageTextVar('Data-'.MakeBaseName(\$pn), 'Work')";

    $FmtPV['$WAuthor'] = 
      "PageTextVar('Data-'.MakeBaseName(\$pn), 'WAuthor')";

I've also replaced the recursive call to PageVar(...) with
a direct call to MakeBaseName() -- this should also be an
improvement.

>    Once I do have it working, I guess I could make "stripped" (or "safe")
>    pagevar versions and eliminate that custom markup I have for creating
>    Category markup?  

I don't remember how you're handling categories... but yes, you
may be able to do that.

>    I have 
>      Markup('{$var}', '>$[phrase]',
>        '/\\{(\\*|!?[-:\\w.\\/\\x80-\\xff]*)(\\$:?\\w+)\\}/e',
>        "htmlspecialchars(PageVar(\$pagename, '$2', '$1'), ENT_NOQUOTES)");
>    in my config.php -- I tried commenting it out and my {$:Vars} broke

Yes.  You need the custom {$var} rule here because some of your
pages' names have colons in them.

Pm