[pmwiki-users] Announcement: Page Variable Extensions recipe

[Dominique Faure]

On 6/30/06, Pico <pmwiki at ben-amotz.com> wrote:
> Dominique Faure wrote:
> > Announcing (officially) the Page Variable Extensions recipe at:
> >
> > http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/PageVariableExtensions
> >
> > This recipe enhances the variable features in several ways, providing
> > markup and suffixes functions to dynamically initialize and manipulate
> > their values in wiki's pages [snip]
>
> This recipe is *so good* that the announcement did not even mention that
>   the new variables can be set by url, as in ?set_Var=value, which means
> that readers can click on links that will set variables that can be
> evaluated by conditional markup to control display and processing of a page.

Thanks ;-) but this is mainly the part that gives a beta status to the
recipe. I'm not sure to address all security considerations (but
further works won't change dramatically the current behaviour).

> For example, the first thing I did with this was to provide a link that
> adds and removes columns in a table that is generated by pagelist
> templates that use table and include directives to gather text from
> structured (anchored) pages.   Details at the end of this post.

Nice catch!

Regards,
Dom