[Phpwiki-talk] [Patch] Page templates support

[Todd M. <nil...@ne...>]

The attached patch adds page template support to phpwiki when creating a
page.  When you initially edit a page that did not previously exist, it
will check for a templatename parameter.  If it exists, it will use it's
value as a pagename to use for the default content of the page.  It also
does variable substitution on the template page content for {pagename}
and {sourcepage}.

Also in the patch, when viewing a nonexistant page, you see a message
saying the page does not exist, but when editing such a page for the
first time without a template, it defaults to the usual 'Describe
[pagename] here' content.  

A plugin called TemplateForm is also provided, which let's you insert a
form into a page for page creation.  You can specify a particular
template page to use, or let it show a drop down box of templates.

One example using this is Categories.  If you add the following snippet
to the end of CategoryCategory:

=========================================================
--

Create new category:
  <?plugin TemplateForm template=CatTemplate buttontext="Create
Category" ?>
=========================================================

and add the following pages:

CatTemplate:
=========================================================
Pages in category [{pagename}]:
<?plugin BackLinks noheader=1 ?>

Create new page in this category:
  <?plugin TemplateForm template=CatPageTemplate ?>
--
CategoryCategory
=========================================================

CatPageTemplate:
=========================================================
Describe [{pagename}] here.

--
[{sourcepage}]
=========================================================

Now, category creation, and creating pages within a category just became
much simpler.

If this is worth pursuing, other useful features should be easy to add:
* have a DefaultTemplate so you can customize the default content for
new pages for an entire site
* add a template parameter to the Calendar plugin, so you can have
boilerplate for calendar entries.

Comments?

[Note: patch is against current CVS]

-- 
Todd Mokros <nil...@ne...>