[Solar-talk] Wiki links

[Paul M Jones]

Hi Antti,

> 1. How can I add base paths for 'read' and 'add' wiki links (it's the
> _attribs property in Solar_Markdown_Wiki_Link)? There's setAttrib()
> but how can I call it? How about the interwiki hrefs? Shouldn't there
> be config keys for a lot of the wiki stuff, or do they work
> differently?

You've already figured this out, I think, but to recap:

You should be able to call $markdown->getPlugin('link'), which will  
get you the Solar_Markdown_Wiki_Link object.  You can then $plugin- 
 >setAttrib() to set the various attributes on that object.

> 2. What is the intended way of naming wiki links?

The idea with Solar_Markdown_Wiki is to match the Wikipedia  
convention for link markup, which leads to the normalizing you  
noticed.  If you want, you can extend Solar_Markdown_Wiki_Link and  
override the _normalize() method, which will let you normalize link  
names any way you like.  However, you then need to extend  
Solar_Markdown_Wiki and replace the old rule name with your new one.

(On further consideration, I can see that adding config keys for the  
plugins and the "master" processor classes would be a good idea;  
happy to take suggestions here.)


> I see that
> Solar_Markdown_Wiki_Link normalizes the names to be capitalized and
> replaces spaces to underscores. Now, the problem is that
> Solar_Uri(_Action) seems to make all links lowercase, so I can't
> create links to wiki pages with  the action helper.

Does it?  I thought that the the Solar_Uri methods pretty much left  
the input alone.  Can you give an example here?


> Also, mysql
> SELECTs are not case sensitive so things seem to work even though they
> shouldn't. I want *all* the page names to be named the same way,
> probably how Solar_Markdown_Wiki_Link names them. I want them to be
> named correctly in the DB too. How could one handle these
> inconsistencies? Any tips, good practices?

You're correct on MySQL not honoring case by default; I think you  
would need to change the collation to something that is case- 
sensitive, perhaps "utf8_bin".

Let me know if this helps (or not) and thanks for your patience.  :-)



--

Paul M. Jones  <http://paul-m-jones.com>

Solar: Simple Object Library and Application Repository
for PHP5.  <http://solarphp.com>

Join the Solar community wiki!  <http://solarphp.org>

Savant: The simple, elegant, and powerful solution for
templates in PHP.  <http://phpsavant.com>