We are asking more and more of link.html, but the User tags don't seem to be available. isLinkOwner is not always enough, the User->{Status} (Administrator, Editor, User, etc) is often more important for providing options.

I've asked Alex to consider adding in the following line to site_html_link:



But, you can get the same effect with the following template global:



This is *extremely* useful for showing admin-only options in the templates during debugging, or for enhancing features such as edit/modify/add features beyond what 'isLinkOwner' can do.

Example:



And that way, your site can still function "normally" while you try to debug or change some templates.


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Or you could create something more flexible by allowing yourself to pass in the key you want.....


Then in your template you can pas in any field from the user table..eg...

<%MyGlobal(Username)%>

Not bad :)

User_Data => sub {
return exists $Links::USER->{$_[0]} ? $Links::USER->{$_[0]} : '';
}

and in the templates use

<%User_Data(Status)%>


*BUT* the construct above doesn't seem to work in the <%if%> clause, so you still need to use a variable, not a function call to make that work.


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*BUT* the construct above doesn't seem to work in the <%if%> clause, so you still need to use a variable, not a function call to make that work.
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Maybe it will work with a set tag?

<%set my_username = myglobal(Username)%>

I did think you could use globals and functions in if tags though.

That doesn't work either.

It seems to be a function of the behavior of the template globals not being recognized as a true "function" in terms of the parser.


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