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RequireCategory

Question

I there a way to have requirement for categories?

Answer

Put the following code into your config.php file:

## Require Markup
 function RequireCategory($pagename, &$page, &$new) {
   global $EnablePost, $MessagesFmt;
   if (isset($_POST['text']) && strpos(@$new['text'], '[[!') == false) {
     $EnablePost = 0;
     $MessagesFmt[] = "<h3 class='wikimessage'>The page must contain at
       least one category</h3>";
   }
 }
  array_unshift($EditFunctions, 'RequireCategory');

Notes and Comments

''The newest the latest. And please don't forget to end by date and name. Thanks)

This recipe is nice, but it really needs to exclude a few pages, like 'Site' pages, otherwise you have to put categories on them, which doesn't make any sense at all. However I got it to work by adding this line:

    && preg_match('/^Site\.|^PMWiki\.|WikiSandbox/', $pagename) == false

That enables Site, PMWiki and Sandbox pages to be exempted from the requirement.

-- KathrynAndersen 2006-05-02

the idea is simple, but the only is or not index is [[ if anyone tips this into his text without meaning categories, the system fails ...

-- curmetsefrog

Versions

date of publication : 2005-09-16 : RequireCategory - version 00001

See Also

PmWiki:Categories

Contributors

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