This is an alpha version and is still under development. See ConditionalPluginDev? for discussion.
This plugin adds the ability to do simple, not nested, conditional rendering in topics.
It attempts to do this in a relatively secure manner by applying the following security measures:
=,>,<,<
,>=,!=,eq,ne,gt,lt,le,ge,<=>,cmp,=~,!~
More sophisticated constructs (like support for range-conditions or nested constructs) may appear in future revisions, if and when the need for them arises.
The following example prints something dependent on the topicname (can be usefull in templates)
Result
* This is NOT the WebHome topic
A different approach, without the 'else' clause:
* This is %IF{ %TOPIC% ne WebHome }% NOT %ENDIF% the WebHome topic
Which of course als results in:
Or:
Which results in:
Plugin settings are stored as preferences variables. To reference a plugin setting write %<plugin>_<setting>%
, i.e. %INTERWIKIPLUGIN_SHORTDESCRIPTION%
data/debug.txt
)
Note: You do not need to install anything on the browser to use this plugin. The following instructions are for the administrator who installs the plugin on the server where TWiki is running.
ConditionalPlugin.zip
in your twiki installation directory. Content:
File: | Description: |
---|---|
data/TWiki/ConditionalPlugin.txt | Plugin topic |
data/TWiki/ConditionalPlugin.txt,v | Plugin topic repository |
lib/TWiki/Plugins/ConditionalPlugin.pm | Plugin Perl module |
Plugin Author: | JeroenVanDongen? |
Plugin Version: | 10 Aug 2002 (V1.000) |
Change History: | |
10 Aug 2002: | Initial version |
10 Aug 2002: | Improved regexp to deal with multi-line constructs |
11 Aug 2002: | Added lazy-loading for Safe.pm |
CPAN Dependencies: | none |
Other Dependencies: | Safe.pm (part of Perl 5.005_3 and up |
Perl Version: | 5.005 |
Plugin Home: | http://TWiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Plugins/ConditionalPlugin |
Feedback: | http://TWiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Plugins/ConditionalPluginDev |
Related Topics: TWikiPreferences, TWikiPlugins
-- JeroenVanDongen? - 10 Aug 2002