01356: time signature
Description: Add a time signature.
Like in "author and time signature" ( ~~~~ ), but without the author.
It is common to post creation time in pages, like news articles.
It would be even better, if this "time signature" could be turned into a link.
Currently this...
[[SomePage| ~~~~ ]]
will result to this
[[Profiles/nikos? November 08, 2014, at 02:37 PM]]
Although the link is actually working, its name isn't printed right.
Specifically, I would like to combine the "time signature" with a link to the current page's differences history...
[[{$FullName}?action=diff|differences]]
The syntax might look something like...
[[{$FullName}?action=diff| ~~~~~~ ]]
I see that the PITS system has a "time signature feature" (see above: " Created: ").
So this can already be done.
Then maybe a Cookbook recipy could be created. A "How to...".
nikos? November 08, 2014, at 02:37 PM
I define ~~~~~ in my configuration file to be a stylized author plus time signature. I imagine something like this would work for you, without needing to add a feature to PmWiki:
$page = PageVar($pagename, '$Name');
# add page variable {$Created} in $TimeFmt format that you define in config.php
$FmtPV['$Created'] = "strftime(\$GLOBALS['TimeFmt'], \$page['ctime'])";
$ROSPatterns['/(?<!~)~~~~~(?!~)/']
= "[[".$page."?action=diff|{".$page."\$Created}]] "; # 5 tildes = page history link
RandyB November 08, 2014, at 10:15 PM
Thank you very much!!!
The only problem I had was with testing this in Sandbox.
I thought I was doing something wrong, but it turns out that this works, properly, for pages that are created after it has been set in config.php .
All's well then.