[pmwiki-users] Properties

[Martin Fick]

On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 12:47:10PM -0600, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 11:10:53AM -0600, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> > I'm thinking of adding something like Cookbook.Properties into the
> > core distribution, but want to get feedback (especially Dominique's)
> > on the markup, since what I'm thinking of using differs somewhat from
> > the recipe version.
> > 
> > At this stage this is just a proposal and not a commitment.  
> > ...
> 
> Another note:
>  
> Given the current markup processing structure, in order for the
> (:if property ...:) conditional to work, all of the (:property:) tags 
> have to be processed before it.  This means that there's not really a 
> possibility to have conditional property settings, so
> 
>     (:if auth edit:)
>     (:property something=value:)
>     (:ifend:)
> 
> always sets the property "something" even if the current visitor
> doesn't have edit permissions.
> 
> Is this a big issue?  (As far as I can tell this restriction also
> exists for the Cookbook.Properties recipe.)


What if there were a conditional setting markup instead?

(:property (auth edit) something=value:)



-Martin