Re: [Phpwiki-talk] Patch for initial_content arg to page editing and CreatePage

[Reini U. <ru...@x-...>]

Dan,
I'd love to add your RateThisPage feature to PhpWiki. Did you see my 
latest WikiPoll?

The CategoryPage plugin idea is also cool, but I would like to change it 
a bit.
I see your point with the dynamically created initial_content, but then 
I would like to suggest to use variables in the user-editable 
TemplatePage content which get's translated per Category.

Something wikipedia is also struggling with.

Dan F schrieb:
> As background to this discussion, I attach my current version of my 
> CategoryPage.php plugin, and the categorypage.tmpl it uses. The idea is 
> to be able to drop <?CategoryPage ?> on any page you wish to represent a 
> category in order to replicate boilerplate text that describes how it 
> works for a newbie.
> 
> All of this would probably be unnecessary for people who know a lot 
> about how Phpwiki works (specifically: searching, creating pages, and 
> backlinks), but I am specifically trying to design our site for casual 
> users who don't care about wikis. I plan to try to attract many of them 
> (potentially hundreds or thousands) to rate restaurants, research 
> papers, movies, etc.

>> Thanks for your response! I assume you meant to add your suggested 
>> code into the CreatePage plug-in, then add the template itself as a 
>> Wiki page. I like the fact that yours is not restricted by GET length, 
>> and that it is editable by end-users. I also agree that introducing 
>> quoting into expandArgs() is a bold move that one would like to avoid 
>> if possible.
>>
>> The potential issue for me is that the template itself might have to 
>> be programmatically generated. Thus, I don't want "[Restaurant]" in 
>> general, but, "[" . "[pagename]" . "]", so that I can drop a simple 
>> statement (currently a CategoryPage plugin) that has a "CreatePage" 
>> button on "[Restaurant]" that refers back to [Restaurant] and drop 
>> that same CategoryPage plugin without mods onto "[ResearchPaper]" and 
>> its "CreatePage" button refers back to "[ResearchPaper]". I am not 
>> describing it very well in English. For an example, please see:
>>
>> http://dickens.cs.umn.edu/dfrankow/wikilens/index.php/Restaurant
>> http://dickens.cs.umn.edu/dfrankow/wikilens/index.php/ResearchPaper
>> http://dickens.cs.umn.edu/dfrankow/wikilens/
>>
>> I will work with your suggestion and see how it goes. I'd much prefer 
>> to have something you guys are willing to accept as a mod.

> This page represents the category.
> All pages that are in the category refer to this page.
> 
> "BackLinks", 'exclude' => "$EXCLUDE"), _("Show all pages in the 
> $SINGULAR category")); ?>
> 
>    To put a page into the category
> 
>    1. Search to see if it already exists. We don't want lots of
>       duplicate pages. You can use this FuzzyPages search:
> 
>    2. If it does not exist, create the page and save it. You can use
>       this CreatePage button, or see for more ways to navigate or create
>       pages. _printPlugin("<" . "?plugin-form CreatePage
>       initial_content=" . $initial_content . " ?" . ">"); ?>
> 
>    3. Whether you just created it or it already exists, to ensure that
>       the *"Show all pages in the category"* button shows your page, be
>       sure to refer to this page by putting *[]* in your page text
>       somewhere (including the brackets to be safe).
-- 
Reini Urban
http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/