[dokuwiki] Re: Is there any macro/substitution plugin that will work 'globally' - i.e. between pages?

  • From: Chris G <cl@xxxxxxxx>
  • To: dokuwiki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2010 22:14:53 +0100

On Tue, Jun 08, 2010 at 10:14:44AM +0100, Chris G wrote:
[snip long, boring, description of what I want]

> It's back to a question I asked here a while ago, is there any way to
> transfer a value through a link so that the called page gets some
> information of some sort from the calling page.  It's a bit more
> difficult in the case I have described above though because the
> calling page is, usually, a display of several rows from the database
> so there will be more than one calling link displayed.  It's quite OK
> to require new syntax for the link though as I am quite happy to have
> a column in the database which has extra bits and pieces to create a
> 'link with a parameter'.
> 
> I'm thinking that I may take a look at the linkext and linkway plugins
> and see if I can extend what they do so I can extract their 'extra'
> link information in the templater plugin.
> 
On thinking about it a little (and getting some feedback on other
lists) what I want is something like the "?name=value" syntax
available on normal/external URLs as these can be accessed in the
called page using GET.

-- 
Chris Green

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