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Summary: Replace the PmWiki skin template page header with Wiki page header

Version: 1.0

Prerequisites: None

Status: Mature

Maintainer: Simon

Questions answered by this recipe

Questions:

Why is the PmWiki default skin page header part of the template rather than a wiki page?

How do I make a page header that is a PmWiki page like the side bar?

Answer: Follow the instructions below

Description

Change the PmWiki skin template (.tmpl) file to use a wiki page as header. This may apply to other skin ? template files as well, but some use already a Wiki page for the header.

1: change the PmWiki skin template

Replace the lines close to the front of the template file (eg pmwiki.tmpl)

<!--PageHeaderFmt-->
  <div id='wikilogo'><a href='{$ScriptUrl}'><img src='$PageLogoUrl'
    alt='$WikiTitle' border='0' /></a></div>
  <div id='wikihead'>
  <form action='{$ScriptUrl}'>
    <span class='headnav'><a href='{$ScriptUrl}/$[{$Group}/RecentChanges]'
      accesskey='$[ak_recentchanges]'>$[Recent Changes]</a> -</span>
    <input type='hidden' name='n' value='{$FullName}' />
    <input type='hidden' name='action' value='search' />
    <a href='{$ScriptUrl}/$[{$SiteGroup}/Search]'>$[Search]</a>:
    <input type='text' name='q' value='' class='inputbox searchbox' />
    <input type='submit' class='inputbutton searchbutton'
      value='$[Go]' /></form></div>
<!--/PageHeaderFmt-->

with the lines

<!--PageHeaderFmt-->
  <!--wiki: {$DefaultGroup}.Header {$Group}.HEader {$SiteGroup}.Header-->
<!--/PageHeaderFmt-->

2: create the page Site.Header

Use the following as the basis for your site page header

(:Summary: Website page header:)
(:div class='lastmod' style="font-size:smaller;":)
$[Page last modified on {*$LastModified}]
(:divend:)
(:div class='footnav' rel='nofollow' style="font-size:smaller;":)
%rel='nofollow' class=edit    accesskey=$[ak_edit]%     [[{*$FullName}?action=edit  | $[Edit] ]] -
%rel='nofollow' class=diff    accesskey=$[ak_history]%  [[{*$FullName}?action=diff  | $[History] ]] -
%rel='nofollow' class=print   accesskey='$[ak_print]'%  [[{*$FullName}?action=print | $[Print] ]] -
%rel='nofollow' class=changes accesskey='$[ak_recentchanges]'% [[{*$Group}/RecentChanges | $[Recent Changes] ]] -
%rel='nofollow' class=search  accesskey='$[ak_search]'% [[{$SiteGroup}/Search | $[Search] ]]
(:divend:)

This will give the same result as the standard PmWiki page header.

Notes

This header first shows any header in the default group ($DefaultGroup) and alternatively the header from the site group ($SiteGroup}.

This recipe provides an obvious improvement to the flexibility of PmWiki by making the page header customisable in a similar way to the side bar.

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Wiki Header

Questions answered by this recipe

Description

1: change the PmWiki skin template

2: create the page Site.Header

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