I just got done implementing what I think is a rather neat hack in Text_Wiki/YaWiki.
It is the ability to specify “paged” data. My reason for wanting this, is that I want to put a tutorial on the Cerebral Cortex Wiki but don’t want it to be one huge long page, or pages like CrtxDbTutotial1, CrtxDbTutorial2 etc.
I also wanted it to automatically have next/back links.
So heres what I now can do (ignore the line numbers :):
- ===1===
- Page 1 Here.
- All other formatting is respected
- ===2===
- Page 2 here
- ===3===
- Page 3 here
- ======
This produces (at first), this:
Page 1 Here.
All other formatting is respected
1 2 3 Next >>>
Where 2, 3 and “Next >>>” are linked approriately.
The links pass a “pageno” GET variable (which if not present or is not a page, defaults to 1) and they
show the appropriate content between ===$pageno=== and either ===$next_page=== or ======
I really like this, and it took me less than 30 minutes to implement (thanks to PEAR::Pager), most of which was spent going “Hunh?” over the Text_Wiki code – which, now that I understand it, is pretty damn nice!
I will be moving this hack to the live crtx.org wiki soon, and it will also feature in my revamped crtx.org 
– Davey
