## Registering plugins
All plugins should `use IkiWiki` to import the ikiwiki plugin interface.
+It's a good idea to include the version number of the plugin interface that
+your plugin expects: `use IkiWiki 2.00`
Plugins should, when imported, call `hook()` to hook into ikiwiki's
processing. The function uses named parameters, and use varies depending on
a "call" parameter, which is a reference to a function to call for the
hook.
-An optional "scan" parameter, if set to a true value, makes the hook be
-called during the preliminary scan that ikiwiki makes of updated pages,
-before begining to render pages. This parameter should be set to true if
-the hook modifies data in `%links`. Note that doing so will make the hook
-be run twice per page build, so avoid doing it for expensive hooks.
-
An optional "last" parameter, if set to a true value, makes the hook run
after all other hooks of its type. Useful if the hook depends on some other
hook being run first.
function is passed no values. It's ok for the function to call
`error()` if something isn't configured right.
-### filter
+### needsbuild
- hook(type => "filter", id => "foo", call => \&filter);
+ hook(type => "needsbuild", id => "foo", call => \&needsbuild);
-Runs on the raw source of a page, before anything else touches it, and can
-make arbitrary changes. The function is passed named parameters `page` and
-`content` and should return the filtered content.
+This allows a plugin the manipulate the list of files that need to be
+built when the wiki is refreshed. The function is passed a reference to an
+array of pages that will be rebuilt, and can modify the array, either
+adding or removing files from it.
-### scan
+### filter
- hook(type => "scan", id => "foo", call => \&scan);
+ hook(type => "filter", id => "foo", call => \&filter);
-This is identical to a preprocess hook (see below), except that it is
-called in the initial pass that scans pages for data that will be used in
-later passes. Scan hooks are the only hook that should modify `%links`.
+Runs on the raw source of a page, before anything else touches it, and can
+make arbitrary changes. The function is passed named parameters "page",
+"destpage", and "content". It should return the filtered content.
### preprocess
well. Whatever the function returns goes onto the page in place of the
directive.
+An optional "scan" parameter, if set to a true value, makes the hook be
+called during the preliminary scan that ikiwiki makes of updated pages,
+before begining to render pages. This parameter should be set to true if
+the hook modifies data in `%links`. Note that doing so will make the hook
+be run twice per page build, so avoid doing it for expensive hooks.
+
Note that if the [[htmlscrubber]] is enabled, html in
[[PreProcessorDirective]] output is sanitised, which may limit what your
plugin can do. Also, the rest of the page content is not in html format at
object that is the template that will be used to generate the page. The
function can manipulate that template object.
-The most common thing to do is probably to call $template->param() to add
+The most common thing to do is probably to call `$template->param()` to add
a new custom parameter to the template.
### sanitize
Use this to hook into ikiwiki's cgi script. Each registered cgi hook is
called in turn, and passed a CGI object. The hook should examine the
-parameters, and if it will handle this CGI request, output a page and
+parameters, and if it will handle this CGI request, output a page (including the http headers) and
terminate the program.
### auth
Hook into ikiwiki's processing. See the discussion of hooks above.
Note that in addition to the named parameters described above, a parameter
-named no_override is supported, If it's set to a true value, then this hook
+named `no_override` is supported, If it's set to a true value, then this hook
will not override any existing hook with the same id. This is useful if
the id can be controled by the user.
Creates and returns a [[cpan HTML::Template]] object. The first parameter
is the name of the file in the template directory. The optional remaining
-parameters are passed to HTML::Template->new.
+parameters are passed to `HTML::Template->new`.
#### `htmlpage($)`
Makes the specified page depend on the specified [[PageSpec]].
-#### `pagespec_match($$;$)`
+#### `pagespec_match($$;@)`
+
+Passed a page name, and [[PageSpec]], returns true if the [[PageSpec]]
+matches the page.
-Passed a page name, a [[PageSpec]], and the location the [[PageSpec]] should
-be matched against, returns true if the [[PageSpec]] matches the page. (If
-the third parameter is not passed, relative PageSpecs will match relative to
-the top of the wiki.)
+Additional named parameters can be passed, to further limit the match.
+The most often used is "location", which specifies the location the
+PageSpec should match against. If not passed, relative PageSpecs will match
+relative to the top of the wiki.
#### `bestlink($$)`
If the destination directory doesn't exist, it will first be created.
-### `will_render($$)`
+#### `will_render($$)`
Given a page name and a destination file name (not including the base
destination directory), register that the page will result in that file
#### `urlto($$)`
-Construct a relative url to the first parameter from the second.
+Construct a relative url to the first parameter from the page named by the
+second. The first parameter can be either a page name, or some other
+destination file, as registered by `will_render`.
#### `targetpage($$)`
modules. These are in the `IkiWiki::RCS` namespace, for example
`IkiWiki::RCS::svn`.
-Each RCS plugin must support all the IkiWiki::rcs\_* functions.
+Each RCS plugin must support all the `IkiWiki::rcs_*` functions.
See IkiWiki::RCS::Stub for the full list of functions. It's ok if
-rcs\_getctime does nothing except for throwing an error.
+`rcs_getctime` does nothing except for throwing an error.
See [[about_RCS_backends]] for some more info.
[[PageSpecs|PageSpec]]. Such a plugin should add a function to the
IkiWiki::PageSpec package, that is named `match_foo`, where "foo()" is
how it will be accessed in a [[PageSpec]]. The function will be passed
-three parameters: The name of the page being matched, the thing to match
-against, and the page that the matching is occuring on. It should return
-true if the page matches.
+two parameters: The name of the page being matched, and the thing to match
+against. It may also be passed additional, named parameters. It should return
+a IkiWiki::SuccessReason object if the match succeeds, or an
+IkiWiki::FailReason object if the match fails.