Hi Rodney,

2009/12/2 Rodney Morris lucifer@infernaldreams.com:

I've two issues I've been bashing my head against for the last few days and finally decided to put it out to the list as a whole.  I'm working on an increasingly complex template and I'm hoping you guys might be able to provide some easy answers.

1. Is it possible to put comments into a template?  Something that will

only show up on the edit screen for the template, not on the 'view' tab and not when the template is used?

Try wrapping the comments in <includeonly><noinclude></noinclude></includeonly>

2. Is it possible to assign a parameter value to a parameter within the

template?  Basically, what I'm trying to do is to use an ifeq statement to provide output based on one of three possible parameter values.  For example:

Let's assume the only parameter passed from the calling page is a value for "pet".  The two values expected are "dog" or "fish".  If the parameter value passed is "dog", then I'd want to assign breathes=air, legs=4 and teeth=yes.  If the parameter value from 'pet' is "fish", I'd want breathes=water, legs=0 and teeth=none.  Later on in the same template, I'd want to put the values for breathers, legs and teeth into a table.

Now I know I could just put the ifeq statement within the cell in the table, but that's going to quickly get repetitive and cumbersome, resulting in a vary nasty and complex page under the 'edit' tab.  I'm hoping for something a bit more elegant and efficient.

Create a 'public' interface template that accepts pet parameter and then calls the actual technical template that uses the breathes, legs and teeth parameters (in addition to the pet parameter)