Action Help Option
The goal is to have a help option at hand like we know it from command line commands and have a common way to document all available parameters of each action. This way the user as well as the developer has all information accessible inside the application.
1. Parameter
help=1
print help and exit.To print only the help, the action must process and output the help parameter first.
1.1. Set default
<?php // set defaults $help ??= 0;
1.2. Without template
<?php if ($help) { echo $this->help($info, 'paragraphs'); return; }
1.3. With template
<?php if ($help) { $tpl->help = $this->help($info, 'anchor'); return; }
[ === main === ] [ ' help ' ]
1.3.1. Discard other template output
All following parts must be wrapped in a definition to not get printed with the help. This way the non existing definitions in the template array prevent the output.<?php if ($condition) { $tpl->parent_variable = $variable; } $tpl->definition = true;
[= parent _ = <span>[ ' variable | filter ' ]</span> =] [= definition _ = <tag> [ ' _t: Hello ' ] </tag> =]
2. Example
{{edit help=1}}
Description: Creates a link to the edit handler, if the user has the right to edit the given page. Usage: {{edit}} Options: [page="PageName"] [text="your text"]
2.1. Example action
action/edit.php<?php if (!defined('IN_WACKO')) { exit; } $info = <<<EOD Description: Creates a link to the edit handler, if the user has the right to edit the given page. Usage: {{edit}} Options: [page="EditThisPage"] [text="your text"] EOD; // set defaults $help ??= 0; $page ??= ''; $text ??= ''; $tag = $page ? $this->unwrap_link($page) : $this->tag; $href = $this->href('edit', $tag); if ($help) { $tpl->help = $this->help($info, 'edit'); return; } if (!$text) { $text = $this->_t('EditText'); } if ($this->has_access('write')) { $tpl->l_href = $href; $tpl->l_text = $text; }
action/template/edit.tpl
[ === main === ] [ ' help ' ] [= l _ = <a href="[ ' href | e attr ' ]" title="[ ' _t: EditTip ' ]">[ ' text | e ' ]</a> =]
3. Help function
class/wacko.php<?php // ... // help action wrapper function help(string $info, string $action): string { return $this->action('help', ['info' => $info, 'action' => $action]); } // ...
4. Help action
If it can't find a related translation it defaults to the original help text.action/help.php
<?php if (!defined('IN_WACKO')) { exit; } // set defaults $info ??= ''; $action ??= ''; // check for translated version $lang = $this->get_user_language(); $help = []; $lang_file = Ut::join_path('action/lang', 'help.' . $lang . '.php'); if (@file_exists($lang_file)) { include $lang_file; } if (isset($help[$action])) { $info = $help[$action]; } $tpl->help_text = $info;
action/template/help.tpl
[ === main === ] [= help _ = <pre class="help"> [ ' text | pre ' ] </pre> =]
5. Localization
1 of 1 Files accessible from this page :
help.en.zip[link1] | English action help message sets for translation | 5.2 KiB | 05.03.2024 07:38 |
action/lang/help.de.php
<?php if (!defined('IN_WACKO')) { exit; } $help = [ 'changes' => <<<EOD Beschreibung: Zeigt die Liste der letzten Änderungen in jedem Cluster. Verwendung: {{changes}} Optionen: [page="Cluster"] [date="YYYY-MM-DD"] [max=Number] [title=1] [noxml=1] EOD, 'edit' => <<<EOD Beschreibung: Erstellt einen Verweis zum Bearbeiten einer bestimmten Seite, wenn der Nutzer das Recht hat diese zu bearbeiten. Verwendung: {{edit}} Optionen: [page="SeiteZumBearbeiten"] [text="Dein Text"] EOD, ];
action/lang/help.ru.php
<?php if (!defined('IN_WACKO')) { exit; } $help = [ 'changes' => <<<EOD Описание: Выводит список последних изменений в каком-либо кластере. Usage: {{changes}} Опции: [page="Cluster"] [date="YYYY-MM-DD"] [max=номер] [title=1] [noxml=1] EOD, 'edit' => <<<EOD Описание: Позволяет включить линк на правку другой страницы. Usage: {{edit}} Опции: [page="ДругаяСтраница"] [text="your text"] EOD, ];
6. CSS
default.csspre.help { border: 1px solid lightgray; border-radius: 3px; padding: 10px; }
7. Test
{{toc numerate=1}} ===admin_massregex=== {{admin_massregex help=1}} ===admin_recovery=== {{admin_recovery help=1}} ===admin_replace=== {{admin_replace help=1}} ===admincache=== {{admincache help=1}} ===adminupdate=== {{adminupdate help=1}} ===anchor=== {{anchor help=1}} ===authors=== {{authors help=1}} ===backlinks=== {{backlinks help=1}} ===blog=== {{blog help=1}} ===calendar=== {{calendar help=1}} ===categories=== {{categories help=1}} ===category=== {{category help=1}} ===changepassword=== {{changepassword help=1}} ===changes=== {{changes help=1}} ===comment=== {{comment help=1}} ===commented=== {{commented help=1}} ===comments=== {{comments help=1}} ===deleted=== {{deleted help=1}} ===edit=== {{edit help=1}} ===editsection=== {{editsection help=1}} ===embed=== {{embed help=1}} ===feed=== {{feed help=1}} ===filelinks=== {{filelinks help=1}} ===files=== {{files help=1}} ===forums=== {{forums help=1}} ===gallery=== {{gallery help=1}} ===groups=== {{groups help=1}} ===hashid=== {{hashid help=1}} ===help=== {{help help=1}} ===hits=== {{hits help=1}} ===imageslider=== {{imageslider help=1}} ===import=== {{import help=1}} ===include=== {{include help=1}} ===interwikilist=== {{interwikilist help=1}} ===lastedited=== {{lastedited help=1}} ===license=== {{license help=1}} ===login=== {{login help=1}} ===menu=== {{menu help=1}} ===mostcommented=== {{mostcommented help=1}} ===mostpopular=== {{mostpopular help=1}} ===mychanges=== {{mychanges help=1}} ===mychangeswatches=== {{mychangeswatches help=1}} ===mygroups=== {{mygroups help=1}} ===mypages=== {{mypages help=1}} ===mywatches=== {{mywatches help=1}} ===navigation=== {{navigation help=1}} ===news=== {{news help=1}} ===orphaned=== {{orphaned help=1}} ===pagebreak=== {{pagebreak help=1}} ===pageindex=== {{pageindex help=1}} ===pagelinks=== {{pagelinks help=1}} ===paragraphs=== {{paragraphs help=1}} ===randomimage=== {{randomimage help=1}} ===randompage=== {{randompage help=1}} ===randomphrase=== {{randomphrase help=1}} ===redirect=== {{redirect help=1}} ===registration=== {{registration help=1}} ===search=== {{search help=1}} ===tagcloud=== {{tagcloud help=1}} ===toc=== {{toc help=1}} ===topics=== {{topics help=1}} ===tree=== {{tree help=1}} ===upload=== {{upload help=1}} ===usergroups=== {{usergroups help=1}} ===userpages=== {{userpages help=1}} ===users=== {{users help=1}} ===usersettings=== {{usersettings help=1}} ===wanted=== {{wanted help=1}} ===watchers=== {{watchers help=1}} ===whatsnew=== {{whatsnew help=1}}
8. ToDo
- build English help.en.php via script as template for other languages
- action array + template
- [link1] https://wackowiki.org/doc/Dev/Release/R6.1/ActionHelpOption/file?get=help.en.zip