[pmwiki-users] reality check: $Group variable

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 12:47:23PM -0700, Martin Fick wrote:
> --- Henrik Bechmann <henrik at bechmannsoftware.com>
> wrote:
> > I note that the rather basic $Group variable in not
> > included in the list 
> > of variables at
> > http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/Variables.
> > Oversight 
> > or deprecated?
>
> From that page:
> 
> "Note not to confuse these variables (set and used
> only in PHP) with page variables"

Martin is correct, there's not a PHP variable called
$Group (or $Name, or $FullName, etc.) in PmWiki.  There's 
only the {$Group} page variable, which is handled by 
various string substitutions.

For backwards compatibility the sequence $Group without
the curlies is also honored, but it's still not a PHP
global variable and is deprecated in favor of {$Group}
(which I think is also faster).

Pm