Hi Rodney, 2009/12/2 Rodney Morris <[email protected]>: > I've two issues I've been bashing my head against for the last few days > and finally decided to put it out to the list as a whole. I'm working > on an increasingly complex template and I'm hoping you guys might be > able to provide some easy answers. > > 1) Is it possible to put comments into a template? Something that will > only show up on the edit screen for the template, not on the 'view' tab > and not when the template is used? >
Try wrapping the comments in <includeonly><noinclude></noinclude></includeonly> > 2) Is it possible to assign a parameter value to a parameter within the > template? Basically, what I'm trying to do is to use an ifeq statement > to provide output based on one of three possible parameter values. For > example: > > Let's assume the only parameter passed from the calling page is a value > for "pet". The two values expected are "dog" or "fish". If the > parameter value passed is "dog", then I'd want to assign breathes=air, > legs=4 and teeth=yes. If the parameter value from 'pet' is "fish", I'd > want breathes=water, legs=0 and teeth=none. Later on in the same > template, I'd want to put the values for breathers, legs and teeth into > a table. > > Now I know I could just put the ifeq statement within the cell in the > table, but that's going to quickly get repetitive and cumbersome, > resulting in a vary nasty and complex page under the 'edit' tab. I'm > hoping for something a bit more elegant and efficient. > Create a 'public' interface template that accepts pet parameter and then calls the actual technical template that uses the breathes, legs and teeth parameters (in addition to the pet parameter) -- Regards, Jean-Marc -- . ___ . @@ // \\ "De Chelonian Mobile" . (_,\/ \_/ \ TortoiseSVN . \ \_/_\_/> The coolest Interface to (Sub)Version Control . /_/ \_\ http://tortoisesvn.net _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
