[pmwiki-users] OT: Telemarketers without a Clue

2007-05-01 Thread Sandy
I got a call a few secs ago: May I please speak to the person who does your company websites" (barely comprehend the English) -- Speaking May I have your name, please, -- I tell him first name I represent (very halting, lots of space between phrases) (can't understand company name) -- Okay

Re: [pmwiki-users] Recipe stability (was: Why all this zapping?)

2007-05-02 Thread Sandy
han, "It won't work," but, no matter how friendly and helpful the community, there will always be recipes that don't get evaluated, simply because no expert has that much time to invest in a recipe they don't expect to use. Sandy Martin Fick wrote: > I like the idea

Re: [pmwiki-users] [pmwiki-devel] Announce: pmwiki-social

2007-05-02 Thread Sandy
t about PmWiki, fits better here than my other lists. I enjoy reading the profiles and heading over to folks' websites. I like feeling there's someone in the cubicle "next door". So, my vote is this list remain relaxed and mostly-on-to

Re: [pmwiki-users] Warning messages (Was: (:include:) directive not working fully)

2007-05-03 Thread Sandy
s." Icing on the cake is we can set the flag through the wiki, without going through config.php. I expect we can find more warnings that can be set, and sometimes we won't be FTPing. Thought of showing only for auth=edit, but, again, if we're testing how something works in auth=

Re: [pmwiki-users] Experimental captcha recipe

2007-05-08 Thread Sandy
re the image's alt= tag to contain > the captcha value but this somewhat defeats the purpose of > having a captcha. :-) > What about "type the string in backwards" or "type only the letters"? Next layer, randomly select which method to use. Sandy ___

Re: [pmwiki-users] pagelists link= with pages generated externally

2007-05-10 Thread Sandy
o reindex this one" > Can the program delete .pageindex. It would save having to go through the FTP (or unix or whatever)? Permission could be tied to having permission to do something equally dangerous. (Not terribly dangerous, except as a way to slow down the site.) Then again, is

[pmwiki-users] Page can't be edited

2007-05-14 Thread Sandy
recipe. I'll fire up the FTP program tomorrow and get the config.php and farmconfig.php; so much for one quick change before going to sleep! Sandy ___ pmwiki-users mailing list pmwiki-users@pmichaud.com http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users

Re: [pmwiki-users] [pmwiki-devel] CSS whiz needed...

2007-05-18 Thread Sandy
ock level. Yes, you can put a border around a . Not sure if float does anything for a span, but if you want to move things out of the flow, it's probably because they're block-level, so it should be a div, which are very floatable. Sandy ___

Re: [pmwiki-users] registration form

2007-05-29 Thread Sandy
step consistent: Description, starting with a verb. Then details. One question: does the order of assigning ID/pwd and group membership in Site/AuthUser matter? Sandy ___ pmwiki-users mailing list pmwiki-users@pmichaud.com http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users

Re: [pmwiki-users] Site.* permissions

2007-05-29 Thread Sandy
to move pages out one at a time. If Site/ is called (say from an older skin or a sidebar or an included recipe), first check both new groups, then revert to Site group. Tool to check each page for old-usage would be fairly easy, but what about skins

Re: [pmwiki-users] registration form

2007-05-29 Thread Sandy
this > looks like the same thing I was doing yesterday. Could you please show > me what's different? No difference in what to do, just added some stuff to make the page easier to find and to make it easier to read. Cheers! Sandy > > On 5/30/07, *Sandy* <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [pmwiki-users] reposting re registering, etc.

2007-05-30 Thread Sandy
Pmwiki.org is open for all to edit, and the spam seems fairly minimal. (Or it gets caught before I see it.) There's a single password, 'quick', that's well-publicized in this group. Pm uses one of the blocklist programs to catch most of the spam. There are more details written about it somewhere. Cheers! Sandy ___ pmwiki-users mailing list pmwiki-users@pmichaud.com http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users

Re: [pmwiki-users] Conceptual challenges from ZAPwiki...

2007-06-02 Thread Sandy
iven much back to the community: The ZAP/Acme package, and the recipes that use it. Alternate ideas for how things can be done. Questions that made people think. But ZAPwiki is a separate program. Therefore, it should cut the apron strings. Let it exi

Re: [pmwiki-users] Does anyone know how to disable copying of links in my wiki?

2007-06-05 Thread Sandy
I don't know of a way to do it in PmWiki directly, but some software (which may have a PmWiki link) puts in a watermark, which can be a logo or your site name. So anyone who does copy it (or hotlink), will be advertising to the world that they stole it. Sandy Martin Fick wrote: > I a

Re: [pmwiki-users] recognizing read protection

2007-06-07 Thread Sandy
To see a summary of passwords for each page, try AuthTable http://pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/AuthTable Worth looking at the second version at the bottom as well; the links go directly to the ?action=attr page. Cheers! Sandy Ben Wilson wrote: > Forgive me for not giving enough information, bu

Re: [pmwiki-users] recognizing read protection

2007-06-07 Thread Sandy
2 it's in the core, at the Site.AuthList page. > (This may change to SiteAdmin.AuthList soon, however.) > > Pm > I've added a note to that effect to the documentation. One of these days I'll study (:pagelist:) properly. It's very powerful! Sandy __

Re: [pmwiki-users] neverending registration question

2007-06-07 Thread Sandy
tpasswd and .htgroup files for storing the passwords, and add a line to Site.AuthUser to tell it to get the info from .htpasswd and .htgroup. There may be more to it -- I haven't done it myself but others have. http://pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/AuthUser Hope this helps, Sandy

Re: [pmwiki-users] recognizing read protection

2007-06-07 Thread Sandy
re such a thing? > > Is there a variable that can be displayed in the sidebar, and surrounded by (:if:) to only show if you've admin privileges? Sandy ___ pmwiki-users mailing list pmwiki-users@pmichaud.com http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users

[pmwiki-users] Wiki On A Stick

2007-06-07 Thread Sandy
f.txt to abyss.conf . There is no abyss.conf file to add it to; making one consisting of abyss.conf.txt worked. Many thanks! Sandy ___ pmwiki-users mailing list pmwiki-users@pmichaud.com http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users

Re: [pmwiki-users] Wannabe farmer questions

2007-06-08 Thread Sandy
ere anything in the farm's local/config.php that one shouldn't have > (to avoid conflict? with the wiki home config.php? > > Don > By default, you need to have edit authority, or maybe admin, to approve urls. That way, people with mere edit a

[pmwiki-users] Clean URLs, backwards compatability

2007-06-08 Thread Sandy
eRule ^index.php$ index.php [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule (.*) index.php?n=$1 [QSA,L] Thanks in advance, Sandy ___ pmwiki-users mailing list pmwiki-users@pmichaud.com http://www.pmichau

Re: [pmwiki-users] Enforce author

2007-06-13 Thread Sandy
emed natural > for you to look for it. > Also, put the words that you looked for on the page you found the answer. You can use the (:keyword:) markup if it doesn't fit well with the visible text. The more synonyms that are there to be found, the better chance the next person will find it. Sandy ___ pmwiki-users mailing list pmwiki-users@pmichaud.com http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users

Re: [pmwiki-users] Backups

2007-06-14 Thread Sandy
y? Ours has one that will, on our request, email a zip file of our entire account to an address of our choice. (Let's hear it for large yahoo accounts!) Sandy ___ pmwiki-users mailing list pmwiki-users@pmichaud.com http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users

Re: [pmwiki-users] password protection not working

2007-06-14 Thread Sandy
n individual page password should work, though. Have you tried logging out fully, and closing your browser completely, between setting the password and testing it? (Although I thought the most recent version cleared everything after a password was changed, to facilitate testing.) If th

Re: [pmwiki-users] Clean URLs, backwards compatability

2007-06-14 Thread Sandy
Patrick R. Michaud wrote: > On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 03:17:46PM -0400, Sandy wrote: >> I'm using one of the CleanURL recipes for my farm. (Not sure which one, >> but it works.) Combination of URL rewriting and using CPanel to set the >> subdomain. >> >> T

Re: [pmwiki-users] 2.2.0: add Site.SiteHeader and Site.SiteFooter

2007-06-16 Thread Sandy
teHeader to have stuff that's currently part of the skin, and as such not easy to suppress. (Depending on one's view of skin vs content.) Sandy ___ pmwiki-users mailing list pmwiki-users@pmichaud.com http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users

Re: [pmwiki-users] 2.2.0: SiteAdmin group migration

2007-06-16 Thread Sandy
eed to > include very prominent 'visit your site' in the upgrade instructions. Would they have to log in with admin privileges (and for which page) to see it? Sandy ___ pmwiki-users mailing list pmwiki-users@pmichaud.com http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users

Re: [pmwiki-users] 2.2.0: add Site.SiteHeader and Site.SiteFooter

2007-06-18 Thread Sandy
and logo, contact, main links. The DefaultGroupHeader, to me, sounds like an easy way to have multiple groups share an existing bit of code at the top; would and "include" directive work instead? [1] except, of course, those pages where it was turned off, and can also turn off fo

Re: [pmwiki-users] page history question

2007-06-18 Thread Sandy
Dan I can see some admins wanting to be notified if those attributes are changed. So, if that's what triggered the change, maybe those details should be added to the history. May want to be a bit vague or limit full details by view level. E.g., Password changes are important to

Re: [pmwiki-users] Page redirect

2007-06-18 Thread Sandy
red to from several other pages. Things like the site-wide sidebar and the search form. Main is the first group created by a default install. Sandy ___ pmwiki-users mailing list pmwiki-users@pmichaud.com http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users

Re: [pmwiki-users] 2.2.0: add Site.SiteHeader and Site.SiteFooter

2007-06-19 Thread Sandy
e for > sitewide wikistyles. For (just one) example, it's a way authors can > define sitewide wikistyles and do > >>>alice<< >Lorem ipsum. > >>>bob<< >Dolor sit amet. > > with the style of their divisions customized to

Re: [pmwiki-users] New PmWiki skin

2007-06-26 Thread Sandy
SkinsGallery looks like it was a huge amount of work, but it will save a lot of time for new users later! I've changed one thing: Added "as of June 2007" to the title. Sandy Ian MacGregor wrote: > Seems it's already been fixed. Thank you Hagan :) > > Ian MacGrego

Re: [pmwiki-users] Changes not being saved - more information

2007-06-26 Thread Sandy
separate page showing the problem in the wiki for my host's support team and send them details of problem and diagnosis. Not sure what they did, but it my access logs show it took them 20 minutes and four tries. Hope this helps, Sandy ___ pmwiki-users mailing list pmwiki-users@pmichaud.com http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users

Re: [pmwiki-users] Site.AuthList Questions

2007-06-26 Thread Sandy
ach person must be given a name and password, and you'll have to update SiteAdmin/AuthUser for each person. And then you'll have to stick people into user groups. (Each person can be in an unlimited number of user groups.) But you'd have to do much of this with any of the other m

Re: [pmwiki-users] Site.AuthList Questions

2007-06-28 Thread Sandy
nt user can do the following on this page." It won't help if the user is on a page they have only read permission for, but it will help for the pages they can do more on. Sandy ___ pmwiki-users mailing list pmwiki-users@pmichaud.com http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users

Re: [pmwiki-users] PITS vs. JITS

2007-07-10 Thread Sandy
Sivakatirswami How about a "Welcome stranger" page? Does the registration system have a "hold for approval" setting. I run some non-wiki lists where the user does most of the registration themselves, then I get an email saying my approval is needed. Approval then consists of

Re: [pmwiki-users] HTML to pmWiki

2007-08-27 Thread Sandy
t a list of HTML codes to pass through. The first one, I'm not sure if it'll pass through something dangerous or not (I trust the programmer, but I don't see anywhere if this was a quickie utility for her own site, or something more robust.) Sandy ___

Re: [pmwiki-users] How to change title window tag on pmwiki website

2007-08-27 Thread Sandy
iki/PmWiki/LayoutBasics > > Try this line: > >$WikiTitle : {$Titlespaced} $ActionTitle > > and be sure to set $WikiTitle in config.php > >$WikitTitle = 'Mysite.org'; > > Hagan What about $WikiTitle in config.php? Sandy ___ pmwiki-users mailing list pmwiki-users@pmichaud.com http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users

Re: [pmwiki-users] meta key words

2007-08-27 Thread Sandy
It can take some time (try months) for the search engines to notice your page. You can register your page (and even changes) with Google. I think it's called SiteMap. Read what Google has to say about it as well. Sandy Jeff wrote: > Thank you for the link Pedko, > > That is

Re: [pmwiki-users] restricting edits?

2007-08-31 Thread Sandy
ion. 3. If you are repeating a lot of the formatting commands, consider adding them to the skin. Do you have a URL you could show us? I'm assuming you're familiar with "skin" and "page" and "content". If not, ask again and we'll give you the

Re: [pmwiki-users] PmWiki and ISYS

2007-09-07 Thread Sandy
ot work. > > Is the best way forward to periodically create a static web-site from > PmWiki and scan this? Or is there a better way? > > You can create a static web-site from PmWiki using wget. You can also create a PDF of it. Lots of info in the cookbook. Sandy __

Re: [pmwiki-users] Hiding the edit button (:if auth admin:)

2007-09-07 Thread Sandy
e on the site. That way, he just has to type www.mysite.com/Admin . Once he's logged in, ifauth should work. Sandy ___ pmwiki-users mailing list pmwiki-users@pmichaud.com http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users

Re: [pmwiki-users] Educational Uses of PM Wiki

2007-09-07 Thread Sandy
beginning with "Include" on http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/Cookbook But I'd definitely try Pm's first. Cheers! Sandy ___ pmwiki-users mailing list pmwiki-users@pmichaud.com http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users

Re: [pmwiki-users] Search for empty links? Stub tag?

2007-09-07 Thread Sandy
;s getting fuzzy here. You want it to show links to the page being shown, not the PageFooter. Something about a star. Cheers! Sandy ___ pmwiki-users mailing list pmwiki-users@pmichaud.com http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users

Re: [pmwiki-users] INSTANT UPDATE: EditMore... NEW RECIPE: ShortCutsMarkup...

2007-09-07 Thread Sandy
up > Is there an example of this in action? Sandy ___ pmwiki-users mailing list pmwiki-users@pmichaud.com http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users

Re: [pmwiki-users] Farms

2007-09-07 Thread Sandy
oint all the way back to the original directory. You'll also have a different .htaccess file if you're using clean URLs. Sandy ___ pmwiki-users mailing list pmwiki-users@pmichaud.com http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users

Re: [pmwiki-users] Hiding the edit button (:if auth admin:)

2007-09-10 Thread Sandy
H. Fox wrote: > On 9/7/07, Sandy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Patrick R. Michaud wrote: >>> On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 08:45:59PM -0400, Sameer Kumar wrote: >>>> How about Opera?? Is there a key combination that would work in Opera? >>> According to the

Re: [pmwiki-users] MySQl Plug In

2007-09-14 Thread Sandy
iki-users/2006-August/031282.html In that thread, the record is the TAMU-CC Student Wiki, which had over 200,000 pages running from a single wiki. There's also advice on what to do if things start to get sluggish. Sandy ___ pmwiki-users maili

Re: [pmwiki-users] UPDATE: EditMore v1.2

2007-09-19 Thread Sandy
Mike Shanley wrote: > http://pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/EditMore > > *New and Improved!* > > DEMO at > http://demo.upisup.com > I like, I like!! As soon as updating the wiki moves higher up the list, this one is going in. Sandy ___

Re: [pmwiki-users] The structure of pmwiki

2007-10-11 Thread Sandy
Matthias Günther wrote: > > version=pmwiki-2.2.0-beta57 ordered=1 urlencoded=1 > agent=Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.5; Linux) KHTML/3.5.5 (like Gecko) > author= > charset=ISO-8859-1 > csum= > ctime=1162005298 > host=127.0.0.1 > name=Site.InfoBar > rev=2 > targets=Site.InfoBar,Site.Sea

Re: [pmwiki-users] FCK Editor Install

2007-10-11 Thread Sandy
of which may be pretty good, rather than needing a different version of the editor for each wiki. Sandy ___ pmwiki-users mailing list pmwiki-users@pmichaud.com http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users

Re: [pmwiki-users] .SideBar content

2007-10-12 Thread Sandy
yours on a sidebar that already looks good in the skin you choose. The way they separate list items and put in bullets, etc., is a combination of skin (html and css) and wiki code. So wiki code that looks good in one skin might not look good in another. Hope this helps! Sandy ___

Re: [pmwiki-users] Question about menus

2007-10-12 Thread Sandy
7;s an "Edit SideBar" link; just click on that. Depending on how you set it up, it may ask you for a password; that's another topic. Sandy ___ pmwiki-users mailing list pmwiki-users@pmichaud.com http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users

[pmwiki-users] OT: Annoying Phone Call claiming to be from Google Adware

2007-10-17 Thread Sandy
hem big bucks for platinum-titanium service. My gut feeling is that it's someone fudging their intro spiel, trying to make me pay them money to give me advice that Google gives on their site for free, but my gut's been wrong before. Anyone else get a similar call? Maybe someone who had

Re: [pmwiki-users] Italian translation of PmWiki

2007-10-17 Thread Sandy
watch the pages they're actively interested in, so making changes to a wiki page does not automatically mean the right people will see it. So, yes, it's best to write to the group, at least until you know people are watching those pages. It's good to h

Re: [pmwiki-users] html2wiki

2007-10-18 Thread Sandy
Mark Trumpold wrote: > Hi all > > I looked at the cookbook and it seemed somewhat unclear but is there an easy > way to convert html to php? > > Thanks > > Mark HTML to PHP, or HTML to PmWiki? PHP is the programming language that takes the PmWiki(is there a correct name?) and translates it to

Re: [pmwiki-users] html2wiki

2007-10-19 Thread Sandy
commending something which someone might assume it's safer than it was designed to be. I've added your comments here to the page under "Warning", as well as clarifying that is stripped out. Cheers! Sandy ___ pmwiki-users mailing list pmwiki-users@pmichaud.com http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users

Re: [pmwiki-users] Newbie Alert!!! - basic site security?

2007-10-19 Thread Sandy
es, Group can mean a group of users, or a group of pages.) Passwords for the entire site should be set in config.php. Sandy ___ pmwiki-users mailing list pmwiki-users@pmichaud.com http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users

Re: [pmwiki-users] www.netregistry.com.au

2007-10-22 Thread Sandy
f you do, you will have to redo the change every time you upgrade. > 2. After our team deletes an entry from the wiki, it is deleted > successfully. When searching for a keyword the deleted pages still show > up in the search results. Try deleting wiki.d/.pageindex and .lastmod . Chee

[pmwiki-users] PmWiki and GoDaddy

2007-10-23 Thread Sandy
okbook? Is there anything else I should be aware of but haven't thought to ask? Thanks, Sandy ___ pmwiki-users mailing list pmwiki-users@pmichaud.com http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users

Re: [pmwiki-users] www.netregistry.com.au

2007-10-29 Thread Sandy
Sandy wrote: > Jamie Mckean wrote: >> Hello All >> >> NetRegistry has installed the PMwiki and have been heavily utilising >> it's features for over 6 months now with great success. > >> 2. After our team deletes an entry from the wiki, it is delet

Re: [pmwiki-users] Ban a domain?

2007-10-29 Thread Sandy
puter in a different domain. Every little library branch around here has internet terminals, and there are internet cafes everywhere (one friend updated his travel blog from the most unlikely places; we suspect one of them harvested his Yahoo email addresses, sigh. He's not terribly computer lit

Re: [pmwiki-users] newbie - login methods

2007-10-30 Thread Sandy
rRequired; you set it in config.php. I'm pretty sure it works for blog entries as well. I'm not sure what you mean by "recognize a user's windows login automatically". The default is that it remembers the user until the browser is closed (or browser session is en

Re: [pmwiki-users] Installing PmWiki...

2007-11-12 Thread Sandy
very easy, but learning too many things at once is a bad idea; you never know which step you made the mistake in.) Cheers! Sandy ___ pmwiki-users mailing list pmwiki-users@pmichaud.com http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users

Re: [pmwiki-users] New skin - Maguila - reposting

2007-11-14 Thread Sandy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I did a new skin for PmWiki called Maguila. > > The files were uploaded and the page was filled with information about the > skin and is here -> http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/MaguilaSkin . > > Can someone install it ? > > TIA > > CarlosAB I like the way you

[pmwiki-users] Ideas for "simpler" config settings (EasyConfig?)

2007-11-16 Thread Sandy
Just some random ideas (good, bad, hasty, convoluted and otherwise), to add to the stuff stewing in the back-brains of those who might eventually work on it. The forms processing may now be sophisticated enough to handle it. Are those who can't edit a php file in the target client group? List

[pmwiki-users] OT: Graphics program to add to my Xmas wish list

2007-11-19 Thread Sandy
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Re: [pmwiki-users] OT: Graphics program to add to my Xmas wish list

2007-11-20 Thread Sandy
Kathryn Andersen wrote: > On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 01:24:31PM -0500, Sandy wrote: >> Is there a student-priced program to make images of text, using nice >> fonts, colours, borders, effects, etc.? > > Cheapest there can be: free! > GIMP is the premier open source

Re: [pmwiki-users] Slow page loading and web hosts

2008-01-08 Thread Sandy
ces will offer you a Satisfaction >> Guarantee, sort of like a 30 day trial. My hosting company >> (http://www.a2hosting.com >> ) does this. Why don't you open a new account on this basis. I added that site to the "PmWiki Friendly Hosting" page. Sandy ___

Re: [pmwiki-users] Clean URLs (Another question from the newbie)

2008-01-08 Thread Sandy
learn. Is your "real site" the same setup as your home machine? I know just enough about servers and such to know that 90% of the same, if they look similar, then they are (and all the experts think I'm paranoid for triple-checking things), but that

Re: [pmwiki-users] Login/Logout link

2008-01-08 Thread Sandy
*$FullName}?action=logout|Logout]] (:else:) [[{*$FullName}?action=login|Login]] (:ifend:) Check out http://pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/ConditionalMarkup for related neat things. Cheers! Sandy ___ pmwiki-users mailing list pmwiki-users@pmichaud.com http:/

Re: [pmwiki-users] Nifty css/php trick, but is it safe?

2008-01-08 Thread Sandy
x27;; > $bodytxt = '#ff'; > $headings = '#008400'; Oooh, that's worth putting in a recipe! (In my two whole skins, how many times have I tried to redefine "colour1" and missed a spot?) Sandy ___ pmwiki-use

Re: [pmwiki-users] Nifty css/php trick, but is it safe?

2008-01-08 Thread Sandy
r example the header bg-color > of the skin for diffrent groups. > > If one would do it with pagetextvariables it could even be changed with > a form. > > My implementation looks like this: > Same as I said to the earlier post. This is a need that many skin develope

Re: [pmwiki-users] Nested Categories

2008-01-08 Thread Sandy
Chris Lott wrote: > Can anyone share examples of sites using PmWiki categories that are > nested? I'd just like to see how others are implementing them... > > Thanks! > > c > -- > Chris Lott Try searching the docs for hierarchical categories. There are

Re: [pmwiki-users] Sidebar wants to edit?

2008-01-08 Thread Sandy
nds to me like the sidebar is corrupted. Try replacing the Site.SideBar with a fresh copy. (Fine print: make a backup of the current broken one first.) SAndy ___ pmwiki-users mailing list pmwiki-users@pmichaud.com http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users

Re: [pmwiki-users] Clean URLs (Another question from the newbie)

2008-01-08 Thread Sandy
Steve Glover wrote: > On Tue, 2008-01-08 at 12:18 -0500, Sandy wrote: > >> Uh, you may be learning a lot, but not necessarily what you need to learn. > >> Is your "real site" the same setup as your home machine? I know just >> enough about servers and such

Re: [pmwiki-users] List Categories

2008-01-10 Thread Sandy
ces. I see the point about pages that link to a Category/Subject page not necessarily belonging to the category; not a priority for me at the moment, but worth thinking about if anyone's playing in that section of the code. Sandy ___ pmwiki-

Re: [pmwiki-users] List Categories

2008-01-10 Thread Sandy
to list the pages >> that connect to a category. Thanks I did some more looking and found this one: http://pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/ListCategories There's a lot of programmer-speak in the comments, but I didn't read them carefully enough to see if it's broken, difficult to u

Re: [pmwiki-users] PmWiki and Spam

2008-01-14 Thread Sandy
uot; is better than "If I use this engine, I'll have to fight spam 24/7/365." Each place it differs from the default install, add a note stating this, and linking to a page that lists and explains those differences. This is where we could explain why the password is plain tex

Re: [pmwiki-users] Programs should be allowed to edit pages (Was: PmWiki and Spam)

2008-01-14 Thread Sandy
other hand, it has the benefit of catching everything, even programs that can read captchas, and it might be easier for the "moderators" to go through a list like that. Sandy ___ pmwiki-users mailing list pmwiki-users@pmichaud.com http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users

[pmwiki-users] Errors after site upgrade

2008-01-17 Thread Sandy
onebit.ca. The site is a farm. The main field (www.onebit.ca/pmwiki) has been disabled. EnagleDiag is turned on. Any ideas? Sandy ___ pmwiki-users mailing list pmwiki-users@pmichaud.com http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users

Re: [pmwiki-users] Errors after site upgrade

2008-01-17 Thread Sandy
Patrick R. Michaud wrote: > On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 12:18:38PM -0500, Sandy wrote: >> I went from beta 35 or older to 65 (the most recent). > > My guess is that the upgrade didn't update pmwiki.php. This > could be because it wasn't copied, or because pmwiki.php has

Re: [pmwiki-users] Errors after site upgrade -- more info

2008-01-17 Thread Sandy
Sandy wrote: > I went from beta 35 or older to 65 (the most recent). > > The upgrade included changes from Site to SiteAdmin and maybe relative > to absolute references for page variables (I'm not sure if I have some > page variables hiding in wait or not.) > > I'

Re: [pmwiki-users] printing and css

2008-01-17 Thread Sandy
> > Thanks, > > Taavi Is it inheriting margins, borders or padding from another level? I like FireFox's WebDeveloper extension for this sort of thing, but I'm sure there are other tools out there. Sandy ___ pmwiki-users mailing list pmwiki-users@pmichaud.com http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users

Re: [pmwiki-users] PmForms, error messages

2008-01-17 Thread Sandy
Sandy wrote: > I'm converting my site to use PmForms instead of MailForm and CommentBox. > > I've figured out the "require" statement. > > How do I make the messages more noticeable? I tried putting '''' around > them. >

[pmwiki-users] PmForms, error messages

2008-01-17 Thread Sandy
om' address]" :) (:template require subject errmsg="$[Missing message subject]" :) (:template require text errmsg="$[Message text required]" :) (:template require if="captcha" errmsg="$[Captcha required]" :)'''' {$$text} Thank

[pmwiki-users] OT: Permanent redirects

2008-01-17 Thread Sandy
hing similar in .htaccess documentation. It seems very untidy to have old instructions hanging about in the ether, and is vaguely unsettling. Thanks in advance, Sandy ___ pmwiki-users mailing list pmwiki-users@pmichaud.com http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users

Re: [pmwiki-users] Highlighting a comment from PM

2008-01-18 Thread Sandy
m really sorry to hear your wife is ill. Let me offer my wishes > of a speedy recovery. Same here. Family takes priority. We're ticking along pretty well; you've created a good culture. Sandy ___ pmwiki-users mailing list pmwiki-users@pmichaud.com http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users

[pmwiki-users] Anchor links and CSS

2008-01-20 Thread Sandy
and A.selflink? Sandy ___ pmwiki-users mailing list pmwiki-users@pmichaud.com http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users

Re: [pmwiki-users] printing and css

2008-01-20 Thread Sandy
gins don't add, they overlap, so you only see the largest. (That one got me for a while.) Sandy ___ pmwiki-users mailing list pmwiki-users@pmichaud.com http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users

Re: [pmwiki-users] Anchor links and CSS

2008-01-20 Thread Sandy
Patrick R. Michaud wrote: > On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 11:53:50AM -0500, Sandy wrote: >> Is there a way I can give the anchors a class and hide them? Or do I >> have to set the CSS for each of A.urllink, A.wikilink and A.selflink? > > Yes, you can give anchors a class.

Re: [pmwiki-users] Anchor links and CSS

2008-01-20 Thread Sandy
Sandy wrote: > Patrick R. Michaud wrote: >> On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 11:53:50AM -0500, Sandy wrote: > >>> Is there a way I can give the anchors a class and hide them? Or do I >>> have to set the CSS for each of A.urllink, A.wikilink and A.selflink? >> Yes,

Re: [pmwiki-users] Converting From V1 to V2

2008-01-21 Thread Sandy
one H1 on a page. The skins (should) use H1 for the page title. If you want a different title than the file name gives, use (:title MyTitle:). Sandy ___ pmwiki-users mailing list pmwiki-users@pmichaud.com http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users

Re: [pmwiki-users] OT: Permanent redirects

2008-01-21 Thread Sandy
Sandy wrote: > Questions: > > Is there any way to see what permanent redirects affecting my domain are > recorded? Can they be undone? Everything I know to check says that www.websites.onebit.ca (still under construction) should work. I'm worried that there was a permanent

Re: [pmwiki-users] OT: Permanent redirects

2008-01-21 Thread Sandy
oes a temporary redirect do? It also means there's something else going on, because www.websites.onebit.ca won't even give me a pmwiki error message; I get Server Not Found. I'll look at it again tomorrow. Thanks! Sandy DaveG wrote: > The redirect permanent is simpl

Re: [pmwiki-users] Conditional markup question

2008-01-22 Thread Sandy
]] (:if:) I'm forever thinking I'm logged in as someone else, hence User: {$AuthId} I don't use PageActions at all, although I suppose you could do (:if authid:) (:include Site.PageActions:) (:if:) Cheers! Sandy ___ pmwiki-users mailing list pmwiki-users@pmichaud.com http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users

Re: [pmwiki-users] Clarification on table editing question

2008-01-24 Thread Sandy
eName#AL|A to L]] *[[PageName#AL|A to L]] !!![[#AL]]Names A through L || the table || || !!![[#MZ]]Names M through Z || the table || || You can subdivide it as fine as you like. Cheers! Sandy ___ pmwiki-users mailing list pmwiki-users@pmichaud.com http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users

Re: [pmwiki-users] Disabling History and Recent Changes views

2008-01-25 Thread Sandy
, edit the tmpl file. 1. I don't know how to disable access by people who know to type ?action=diff, but I suspect it would take under three lines in config.php. Are you using AuthUser? That might change the code. Sandy ___ pmwiki-users mail

Re: [pmwiki-users] Bug in (:title:) markup?

2008-01-25 Thread Sandy
win. Third, for non-nested pages, first makes more sense to me. I put (:title:) at the top of every page, with what my English teacher called the topic paragraph. However, I can't think of a case other than (:include:) where having more than one (:title:) is intended. Sandy

Re: [pmwiki-users] Passwords: Group Attributes and eg @_site_edit

2008-01-30 Thread Sandy
want to add or remove a password. AuthUser is nice for this because you will see real letters rather than stars, which makes it easier. Question for another person: Can AuthUser groups contain other groups? The manual says @writers: alice, bob carol: @writers, @editors @admins:

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