From 964745ecf86bc307e243fda097024c3c2b60d73a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "http://smcv.pseudorandom.co.uk/" Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 15:17:59 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Added a comment: not supported at the moment --- ..._556078a24041289d8f0b7ee756664690._comment | 20 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/forum/Possible_to_use_meta_variables_in_templates__63__/comment_1_556078a24041289d8f0b7ee756664690._comment diff --git a/doc/forum/Possible_to_use_meta_variables_in_templates__63__/comment_1_556078a24041289d8f0b7ee756664690._comment b/doc/forum/Possible_to_use_meta_variables_in_templates__63__/comment_1_556078a24041289d8f0b7ee756664690._comment new file mode 100644 index 000000000..3aeeec793 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/forum/Possible_to_use_meta_variables_in_templates__63__/comment_1_556078a24041289d8f0b7ee756664690._comment @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="http://smcv.pseudorandom.co.uk/" + nickname="smcv" + subject="not supported at the moment" + date="2011-01-24T15:17:59Z" + content=""" +This isn't supported, because [[ikiwiki/directive/template]] templates +don't run `pagetemplate` hooks (which is how information gets from +[[ikiwiki/directive/meta]] into, for instance, `page.tmpl`). The only +inputs to the `HTML::Template` are the parameters passed to the +directive, plus the `raw_`-prefixed versions of those, plus the extra +parameters passed to every `preprocess` hook (currently `page`, `destpage` +and `preview`). + +I think having `pagetemplate` hooks run for this sort of template +by default would be rather astonishing, but perhaps some sort of +opt-in while defining the template would be reasonable? One problem +with that is that the templates used by [[ikiwiki/directive/template]] +are just wiki pages, and don't really have any special syntax support. +"""]]