[pmwiki-users] Automatic file creation

[Ian MacGregor]

On Wednesday 13 June 2007 6:39:24 pm Tegan Dowling wrote:
> On 6/13/07, Ian MacGregor <lists at imacgregor.com> wrote:
> > Is it possible to have this:
> >
> > when I create a new $group.Page, I'd like $group.HomePage,
> > $group.GroupHeader
> > and $group.GroupFooter  to automatically be created also. This would save
> > me
> > some time. And I'm thinking I could save even more time by creating those
> > files from templates because my $group.HomePage and
> > $group.Group{Head|Foot}er
> > files all have the same content.
> >
> > Is this possible? If so, how do I go about this?
>
> There are several things that you can combine for this.
>
> See http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/EditTemplates
>
> Also, there's Hans's fantastic recipe
> http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/NewGroupBox, which is built on
> http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/AutoGroupPages
> ,

Thank you. What I did was:

1. For auto-creation of $group.GroupHeader pages:

$GroupHeaderFmt = '(:include {$SiteGroup}.SiteHeader basepage={*$FullName}:)
(:nl:)' . $GroupHeaderFmt;

2. For auto-creation of $group.GroupFooter pages:

$GroupFooterFmt = '(:include {$SiteGroup}.SiteFooter basepage={*$FullName}:)
(:nl:)' . $GroupFooterFmt;

from http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/GroupHeaders
Using two files (Site.SiteHeader and Site.SiteFooter) works better than the 28 
seperate $group.Group{Head,Foot}er files I was using. Thanks to Pm for this 
great idea :)


3. For auto-creation of $group.HomePage:

$EditTemplatesFmt = '{$SiteGroup}.{$Name}Template';

from http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/EditTemplates

Regards,
Ian MacGregor
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