Re: [Phpwiki-talk] Template scripting

[Arno H. <aho...@in...>]

> But as you saw yourself, you are now forced to do this anyway. And I am
> very convinced that there is more to come.

I'm not so convinced :o)

> Ah, but that is the beauty of it all. All you have to do is say at the
> end of index.php
>   include('templates/template.html');

Again: no it's not as easy as this. I want to have a string returned!
(e.g. dump html files in a ZIP file) so it basically becomes some form
of "eval('templates/template.html')" - and that means (among other things) 
no echo, print, printf (not that that would be a major problem).

> Regular expressions are going to break down if you get things like nested
> IF-blocks. Or are you going to introduce a different type of IF-block for
> every possible combination of flags?

Nested IF-blocks work already. The only thing you can't nest is twice the 
same condition, i.e. ###IF:ADMIN### .... ###IF:ADMIN###
But I can't think of a case where such a construct is necessary.

> [user accounts]
> Don't you think that it is safe to say that these things *will* be added
> in the future?

No. They won't come in 1.3.x (and therefore in 1.4.x)
And what is beyond that is pure imagination. For all I know, the internet 
might no longer exist at that point.

> If phpwiki really takes off (and that is what I expect)
> then these things will be added sooner or later.

There are many other wiki-clones out there, so it's unlikely that phpwiki 
will achieve world-domination. E.g. tclwiki already has user 
identification, complete diff archive, and more goodies. 

You can find a wiki-clone for every problem you need - from basic ones to 
very sophisticated ones. phpwiki is somewhere in the middle. Offering nice 
features, but with a simple backend. And it's this simplicity of the 
backend that draws people to phpwiki.

I don't know Steve's plans for phpwiki, but I guess 1.3.x will go into this 
direction: keeping the core as simple as possible and make phpwiki more 
modular (so that people can add their favourite extension easily without 
bloating the core).


> The nested IF-blocks would probably be one.
> You need that if you want
> something inserted only if three flags are true.

That works already. See browse.html for an example (IF LOCK inside IF ADMIN)


> PS. Can I ask you to just send replies to the mailing list? Right now, I
> am getting two replies every time. Or does Kmail not have that option?

Odd - I thought the list-prog doesn't send emails to people listed in To/CC.
At least it does not send me an email if my address is inside To/CC.

/Arno