Re: [pmwiki-users] Pre-announcing 2.2.0 non-beta release

2009-01-23 Thread Eemeli Aro
2009/1/23 John Rankin john.ran...@affinity.co.nz: On Friday, 23 January 2009 3:38 AM, Patrick R. Michaud pmich...@pobox.com wrote: I completely agree that we should start with a simple approach and extend it. Perhaps a simple link to add an endorsement is our best first step. I have to say

Re: [pmwiki-users] How can I make an uploaded file expire?

2009-01-23 Thread Eemeli Aro
2009/1/23 Neil Herber (nospam) nos...@eton.ca: I want to have an uploaded file available for a limited amount of time. I would like it to be deleted (or unavailable for download) after a certain date. If I protected the group where the download lived and had an authorization group (@limited)

Re: [pmwiki-users] Testing and quality control (Was: Pre-announcing 2.2.0 non-beta release)

2009-01-23 Thread Nigel Thomas
PM wrote: The biggest problem with this approach is that diff is much too coarsely grained to help us locate problems. For example, if we simply change a skin feature, HTML header, or even just the amount of whitespace that occurs in certain elements, then the above would report that every test

Re: [pmwiki-users] Formatting numbers

2009-01-23 Thread Dominique Faure
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 04:27, Marcus pr...@wordit.com wrote: Is there a way to format numbers? If I have a form variable 1.5, is there a way to add a zero *only* if the variable has one digit after the decimal point? 1.5 becomes 1.50 1.54 stays as 1.54 Hi, The

[pmwiki-users] add element to a MakePageList Array

2009-01-23 Thread noskule
hi list Anyone know how to add an element to an array which I made with the MakePageList function? A simple: $ptcontent[] = 'SiteStructure';| seams not to work|, I get an empty element. thanks for any hints nos function PTConfigArr($prefix) { global $FmtPV; $opt_ptcontent = array(

Re: [pmwiki-users] Self registration

2009-01-23 Thread Oliver Betz
Patrick R. Michaud wrote: [...where to store authentication data...] All of this does bring up a point, however -- what if someone wanted self-registration but to manage an Apache .htaccess file to hold the data (and control access to other items as well)? do you expect problems by concurrent

Re: [pmwiki-users] Self registration

2009-01-23 Thread Oliver Betz
Patrick R. Michaud wrote: [...] This misses the point I was aiming at. At some point an administrator may need to manipulate SiteAdmin.AuthUser directly (e.g., to remove someone's account), and if there are hundreds of user records in the SiteAdmin.AuthUser page it's more difficult to do this.

Re: [pmwiki-users] Pre-announcing 2.2.0 non-beta release

2009-01-23 Thread Oliver Betz
Patrick R. Michaud wrote: [...] Maybe we could have Cookbook.Recipe-Endorsements, much like some recipes have -Talk pages. ack, this separates documentation and rating. We can also come up with a customized page variable that counts the number of endorsements on the page for various

Re: [pmwiki-users] How can I make an uploaded file expire?

2009-01-23 Thread Neil Herber (nospam)
On 2009-01-23 3:30 AM, Eemeli Aro wrote: 2009/1/23 Neil Herber (nospam) nos...@eton.ca: I want to have an uploaded file available for a limited amount of time. I would like it to be deleted (or unavailable for download) after a certain date. If I protected the group where the download lived

Re: [pmwiki-users] Wikimatrix.org update

2009-01-23 Thread Oliver Betz
Patrick R. Michaud wrote: [...] Oh. I didn't update the date, because I read it as 2009-01-22 and thought that's close enough. I'll fix the date (done). The version number is already correct. :-) maybe you could also revisit the entry for Revision Diffs. I don't know whether there are

Re: [pmwiki-users] How can I make an uploaded file expire?

2009-01-23 Thread Hans
Friday, January 23, 2009, 12:33:59 PM, Neil Herber (nospam) wrote: Your suggestion is appreciated, but it has the disadvantage (for me) of requiring access to the config files for each expiry. I really need a method that can be accomplished directly from wiki pages. If that requires a

Re: [pmwiki-users] Pre-announcing 2.2.0 non-beta release

2009-01-23 Thread Hans
Friday, January 23, 2009, 8:04:32 AM, Eemeli Aro wrote: I have to say that I prefer Friend as a term. I'd like to cast my vote for the endorsement camp. In his counter-argument John managed to point out almost all the points I'd make for this, but I'd like to add two more: Friendship

Re: [pmwiki-users] Pre-announcing 2.2.0 non-beta release

2009-01-23 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 01:20:30PM +, Hans wrote: Friday, January 23, 2009, 8:04:32 AM, Eemeli Aro wrote: I have to say that I prefer Friend as a term. I'd like to cast my vote for the endorsement camp. In his counter-argument John managed to point out almost all the points I'd make

Re: [pmwiki-users] How can I make an uploaded file expire?

2009-01-23 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 01:21:51AM -0500, Neil Herber (nospam) wrote: If I protected the group where the download lived and had an authorization group (@limited) controlling access to the pages, could I make the @limited authorization group *automatically* disappear after a certain date?

Re: [pmwiki-users] Pre-announcing 2.2.0 non-beta release

2009-01-23 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 08:02:11AM -0600, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: I like recommend -- that would work for me. As a first rough cut of what things might look like if we used signatures as recommendations (or endorsements or friendship), see http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Test/SigCount . This shows

[pmwiki-users] Rating cookbooks

2009-01-23 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 06:02:43PM +1300, John Rankin wrote: - whichever term is chosen, I think may be a simplification too far; I would really like to see a comment associated with the name (rejecting any comments that contain a url) Okay, if is too simple, then perhaps

Re: [pmwiki-users] How can I make an uploaded file expire?

2009-01-23 Thread Neil Herber (nospam)
On 2009-01-23 9:23 AM, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 01:21:51AM -0500, Neil Herber (nospam) wrote: If I protected the group where the download lived and had an authorization group (@limited) controlling access to the pages, could I make the @limited authorization group

Re: [pmwiki-users] RSS subscription no update of edits

2009-01-23 Thread ABClf
What should the diff text look like -- how should it be formatted? Pm My personal answer is I guess I would like getting the complete text diff of each current element displayed in the rss. Then, one could easily read in the feed : date - author - summary - diff (extracted from the diff

Re: [pmwiki-users] Notify from sourceforge.net does not work?

2009-01-23 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Thu, 22 Jan 2009, Bo Peng wrote: I came to a point where I put a debug print('here') function right before the mail() function and see the 'here' string on the webpage after I edit. I will submit a support request and ask sourceforge.net whether or not there is a way to enable php/mail().

Re: [pmwiki-users] Testing and quality control (Was: Pre-announcing 2.2.0 non-beta release)

2009-01-23 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Thu, 22 Jan 2009, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: If we don't trust or test them, is it really ok to include them? I don't think it is, and that's part of the issue. Ok, we're in agreement then. As for the testing mechanism I was suggesting, I primarily did intend it for recipes that are

Re: [pmwiki-users] Pre-announcing 2.2.0 non-beta release

2009-01-23 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Fri, 23 Jan 2009, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 01:20:30PM +, Hans wrote: Friday, January 23, 2009, 8:04:32 AM, Eemeli Aro wrote: I have to say that I prefer Friend as a term. I'd like to cast my vote for the endorsement camp. In his counter-argument John managed

Re: [pmwiki-users] RSS subscription no update of edits

2009-01-23 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 05:49:02PM +0100, ABClf wrote: What should the diff text look like -- how should it be formatted? [...] If it were extracted and formatted as it is shown in the diff action page, why not optionally limited to x characters, it would be fine for me. Any formatting

[pmwiki-users] Ignore - Hack I can't Repair

2009-01-23 Thread Allyen Wilson
Sorry for the confusion I fixed it. Don't know why I missed it at first. Ignore the previous messages. allyen ___ pmwiki-users mailing list pmwiki-users@pmichaud.com http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users

Re: [pmwiki-users] Pre-announcing 2.2.0 non-beta release

2009-01-23 Thread john . rankin
On Fri, 23 Jan 2009, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 01:20:30PM +, Hans wrote: Friday, January 23, 2009, 8:04:32 AM, Eemeli Aro wrote: I have to say that I prefer Friend as a term. I'd like to cast my vote for the endorsement camp. In his counter-argument John managed

Re: [pmwiki-users] Hack I can't Repair

2009-01-23 Thread Russ
It was a page called Site.SideBar (as opposed to Site.Sidebar ... the new page was found using the wiki search feature). Deleting the new page allowed the original Site.Sidebar page to display. Regards, Russ Allyen Wilson wrote: My wiki site has been defiled and I can not figure out how to

Re: [pmwiki-users] Rating cookbooks

2009-01-23 Thread john . rankin
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 06:02:43PM +1300, John Rankin wrote: - whichever term is chosen, I think may be a simplification too far; I would really like to see a comment associated with the name (rejecting any comments that contain a url) Okay, if is too simple, then perhaps

[pmwiki-users] Paging in pagelists

2009-01-23 Thread pmwiki
Hi, I have searched the mailing list and have not found an answer. I'm looking for a way of paging a pagelist: I'm using: (:pagelist group=-Site*,-PmWiki*,-Main* fmt=#lnews count=15 order=-time:) #lnews is defined to display the first 4 lines of the pages. I'd like to page the whole list

Re: [pmwiki-users] Pre-announcing 2.2.0 non-beta release

2009-01-23 Thread john . rankin
I'd like to cast my vote for the endorsement camp. In his counter-argument John managed to point out almost all the points I'd make for this, but I'd like to add two more: It was mostly the *word* endorsement I objected to. The definition in Christian's post gave us Supporter and that seems to

Re: [pmwiki-users] Rating cookbooks

2009-01-23 Thread The Editor
For what it's worth, I think a person should be able to go back and change their level of support as needed. Suppose someone tries a recipe and for some reason it doesn't work. So they give it a bad rating, appropriately. Then the developer figures out where the bug is and fixes it. Now everything

Re: [pmwiki-users] Nested if's problem in Sidebar

2009-01-23 Thread jim
An addition. This first level always works, but the the markup for the others levels are not processed and just appear as (:if1 . Jim jim said the following on 1/23/2009 4:25 PM: Hello! I have been having a problem with nested if's working in the rightbar (Modified Triad skin). The

[pmwiki-users] problem with downloading updated recipe zip file

2009-01-23 Thread Hans
I updated foxforum.zip and uploaded it to pmwiki.org. Now whenever I download it, I get an old version. why don't I get the new version? If it is my browser's cacheed file version, how do i force the browser (Firefox) to download from the server? It is usually Ctrl-F5 for apage forced refresh,

Re: [pmwiki-users] Rating cookbooks

2009-01-23 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 09:41:42AM +1300, john.ran...@affinity.co.nz wrote: On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 06:02:43PM +1300, John Rankin wrote: - whichever term is chosen, I think may be a simplification too far; I would really like to see a comment associated with the name (rejecting

Re: [pmwiki-users] Paging in pagelists

2009-01-23 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 12:43:59PM -0800, pmw...@911networks.com wrote: Hi, I have searched the mailing list and have not found an answer. I'm looking for a way of paging a pagelist: [...] I'd like to page the whole list paged 15 entries at a time, so at the bottom of the page there would be

Re: [pmwiki-users] Paging in pagelists

2009-01-23 Thread Hans
Friday, January 23, 2009, 10:30:56 PM, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: I'd like to page the whole list paged 15 entries at a time, so at the bottom of the page there would be next 15 entries, previous 15 entries. Any suggestion? At present we don't have a good way to do this. When it was last

Re: [pmwiki-users] problem with downloading updated recipe zip file

2009-01-23 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 10:13:40PM +, Hans wrote: I updated foxforum.zip and uploaded it to pmwiki.org. Now whenever I download it, I get an old version. why don't I get the new version? If it is my browser's cacheed file version, how do i force the browser (Firefox) to download from the

Re: [pmwiki-users] problem with downloading updated recipe zip file

2009-01-23 Thread Hans
Friday, January 23, 2009, 11:06:22 PM, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: That said, I usually use Shift+Reload in my browser (Firefox 3) to force a re-fetch from the server. That goes fine usually with pages, and even with php files which I can open as text in a new window, then use Shift reload or

Re: [pmwiki-users] problem with downloading updated recipe zip file

2009-01-23 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 11:22:22PM +, Hans wrote: Friday, January 23, 2009, 11:06:22 PM, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: That said, I usually use Shift+Reload in my browser (Firefox 3) to force a re-fetch from the server. That goes fine usually with pages, and even with php files which I

Re: [pmwiki-users] problem with downloading updated recipe zip file

2009-01-23 Thread Hans
Friday, January 23, 2009, 11:32:08 PM, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: As far as I can tell there's not anything on pmwiki.org causing the issue, and when I download foxforum.zip using Firefox I get the version that's there (the md5sums match). So I suspect it has something to do with your

Re: [pmwiki-users] problem with downloading updated recipe zip file

2009-01-23 Thread ABClf
Currently (23:31 UTC) I show foxforum.zip as being 83,612 bytes Same for me. Zip is the last version. Gilles. ___ pmwiki-users mailing list pmwiki-users@pmichaud.com http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users

Re: [pmwiki-users] problem with downloading updated recipe zip file

2009-01-23 Thread Hans
Friday, January 23, 2009, 11:37:15 PM, ABClf wrote: Currently (23:31 UTC) I show foxforum.zip as being 83,612 bytes Same for me. Zip is the last version. now I get the latest as well. ;-) So if there is some server caching delay, it is not permanent. thanks everyone for your assistance!

Re: [pmwiki-users] problem with downloading updated recipe zip file

2009-01-23 Thread DaveG
Patrick R. Michaud wrote: Currently (23:31 UTC) I show foxforum.zip as being 83,612 bytes and an md5sum of 5cde9649152ed0b4d68bd919e7d295d6 . Perhaps others can verify this? I get the same. size: 83,612 bytes md5sum: 5cde9649152ed0b4d68bd919e7d295d6 ~ ~ Dave

Re: [pmwiki-users] Paging in pagelists

2009-01-23 Thread DaveG
Here's what I've done for Blogger. I include a section after the pagelist which adds a link for previous/next, and includes a page parameter: (:div class=page-navigation:)(:if !equal {$Blogger_PagePrev} :)%previous-entries%[[{*$FullName}?page={$Blogger_PagePrev} | $[newer posts]]](:ifend:)\