1 It would be great if I could tell ikiwiki to automatically instantiate pages for each tag, according to a template, especially when `$tagbase` is set.
3 Tags are mainly specific to the object to which they’re stuck. However, I often use them the other way around, too: as concepts. And sometimes I’d like to see all pages related to a given concept (“tagged with a given tag”). The only way to do this with ikiwiki is to instantiate a page for each tag and slap a map on it. This is quite tedious and I’d really love to see Ikiwiki do so by default for all tags.
5 Also see: <http://madduck.net/blog/2008.01.06:new-blog/> and <http://users.itk.ppke.hu/~cstamas/code/ikiwiki/autocreatetagpage/>
9 I would love to see this as well. -- dato
13 I have create a patch to tag.pm for add the option for auto create tag pages.
14 A new setting is used to enable or disable auto-create tag pages, `tag_autocreate`.
15 The new tag file is created during the preprocess phase.
16 The new tag file is then complied during the change phase.
18 _tag.pm from version 3.01_
21 --- tag.pm 2009-02-06 10:26:03.000000000 -0700
22 +++ tag_new.pm 2009-02-06 12:17:19.000000000 -0700
24 hook(type => "preprocess", id => "tag", call => \&preprocess_tag, scan => 1);
25 hook(type => "preprocess", id => "taglink", call => \&preprocess_taglink, scan => 1);
26 hook(type => "pagetemplate", id => "tag", call => \&pagetemplate);
27 + hook(type => "change", id => "tag", call => \&change);
38 + description => "Auto-create the new tag pages, uses autotagpage.tmpl ",
44 +my $autocreated_page = 0;
46 +sub gen_tag_page($) {
49 + my $tag_file=$tag.'.'.$config{default_pageext};
50 + return if (-f $config{srcdir}.$tag_file);
52 + my $template=template("autotagpage.tmpl");
53 + $template->param(tag => $tag);
54 + writefile($tag_file, $config{srcdir}, $template->output);
55 + $autocreated_page = 1;
58 + IkiWiki::disable_commit_hook();
59 + IkiWiki::rcs_add($tag_file);
60 + IkiWiki::rcs_commit_staged(
61 + gettext("Automatic tag page generation"),
63 + IkiWiki::enable_commit_hook();
69 $tag=~y#/#/#s; # squash dups
72 + if (defined $config{tag_autocreate} && $config{tag_autocreate} ) {
84 + return unless($autocreated_page);
85 + $autocreated_page = 0;
87 + # This refresh/saveindex is to complie the autocreated tag pages
89 + IkiWiki::saveindex();
91 + # This refresh/saveindex is to fix the Tags link
92 + # With out this additional refresh/saveindex the tag link displays ?tag
94 + IkiWiki::saveindex();
99 This uses a template called `autotagpage.tmpl`, here is my template file:
101 \[[!inline pages="link(<TMPL_VAR TAG>)" archive="yes"]]
104 A quirk I have not figured out is during the `sub change`, see my comments in the code.
105 I am not sure if that is the best way to handle it.
108 -- Jeremy Schultz <jeremy.schultz@uleth.ca>