[Phpwiki-talk] Half-linking (i.e., link but no back-link) for category membership

[Dan F <dfr...@cs...>]

I am trying to make category membership in my Wiki very flexible, 
because I believe it will be important. As with other Phpwikis, I use a 
back-link to mean in-category. So, if the McDonald's page has a link to 
Restaurant in it, then McDonald's is a Restaurant.

I encountered a problem: if I wish to refer to Restaurant in a link-ish 
way but not as category membership, I couldn't do it. So, if I wished to 
say on the HomePage "See our [Restaurant]s!" then HomePage would look as 
if it were a Restaurant.

To solve this problem, I created a "half-link" character @, used like ~. 
Thus, I say "See our @[Restaurant]s!" and it links, but there is no 
back-link.

I realize this may not work out well, but I thought I'd try it in our 
Phpwiki. I offer up the patch in case anyone else wishes to incorporate 
it. Comments welcome.

As always, I would be glad if this (eventually) made its way to the 
Phpwiki mainline, but of course as time permits, if it seems right to 
you, etc. etc.

Dan Frankowski