[Phpwiki-talk] How do I request a page from the database?

[Timm <ko...@ma...>]

Hello!

I am new to this list, though I have been using PhpWiki now for close to =
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year (and am very happy with it, especially for using it for shared=20
projects!!) and have read this list's archives from time to time. I have=20
several PhpWikis running on http://massenmensch.de (1.3.3, 1.3.3jeffhacks=
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1.3.4) and fiddled a little with the code, mainly layout stuff (see=20
http://massenmensch.de/wiki/phpwiki-1.3.4 for the latest).

MY QUESTION:

What I want to do now, is to generate a menu from an database entry (e.g.=
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page "MainMenu") which will always be displayed in addition to the page=20
currently shown.

Could you give me a hint on what function to call?=20

* Could I call "displayPage" from somewhere an just change "$pagename" to=
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"MainMenu" in a "$this"-structure?

* Or can I add something like the following to "body.tmpl"?
    <? $CONTENT2 =3D WikiDB::getPage("MainMenu") ?>
    <?=3D  $CONTENT2 ?>

For an alternative I could just pass a request to the database independen=
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and RegExp the content into the HTML-code I like, but I hope there is a w=
ay I=20
can do it, using the existing routines!

I would very much appreciate an answer! Greetings,

Timm