Replace "foo" with the command name that will be used inside brackers for
the preprocessor directive.
-Each time the directive is processed, the referenced function (`preprocess` in the example above) is called, and is passed named parameters. A
-"page" parameter gives the name of the page that embedded the preprocessor directive. All parameters included in the directive are included
-as named parameters as well. Whatever the function returns goes onto the
-page in place of the directive.
+Each time the directive is processed, the referenced function (`preprocess`
+in the example above) is called, and is passed named parameters. A "page"
+parameter gives the name of the page that embedded the preprocessor
+directive, while a "destpage" parameter gices the name of the page the
+content is going to (different for inlined pages). All parameters included
+in the directive are included as named parameters as well. Whatever the
+function returns goes onto the page in place of the directive.
## Error handing
[[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
preprocessor time. Text output by a preprocessor directive will be passed
-through markdown along with the rest of the page.
+through markdown (or whatever engine is used to htmlize the page) along
+with the rest of the page.
# Other types of hooks
make arbitrary changes. The function is passed named parameters `page` and
`content` and should return the filtered content.
-## sanitize
+## htmlize
- IkiWiki::hook(type => "filter", id => "foo", call => \&sanitize);
+ IkiWiki::hook(type => "htmlize", id => "ext", call => \&filter);
-Use this to implement html sanitization or anything else that needs to
-modify the content of a page after it has been fully converted to html.
-The function is passed the page content and should return the sanitized
-content.
+Runs on the raw source of a page and turns it into html. The id parameter
+specifies the filename extension that a file must have to be htmlized using
+this plugin. This is how you can add support for new and exciting markup
+languages to ikiwiki.
## pagetemplate
IkiWiki::hook(type => "pagetemplate", id => "foo", call => \&pagetemplate);
Each time a page is rendered, a [[template|templates]] is filled out.
-This hook allows modifying that template. The function is passed the name
-of the page, and a `HTML::Template` object that is the template that will
-be used to generate the page. It can manipulate that template, the most
-common thing to do is probably to call $template->param() to add a new
-custom parameter to the template.
+This hook allows modifying that template. The function is passed named
+parameters. The "page" and "destpage" parameters are the same as for a
+preprocess hook. The "template" parameter is a `HTML::Template` 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 $template->param() to add
+a new custom parameter to the template. Note that in order to be robust,
+it's a good idea to check whether the template has a variable before trying
+to set it, as setting a variable that's not present is an error.
+
+ if ($template->query(name => 'foo')) {
+ $template->param("foo" => "bar");
+ }
+
+## sanitize
+
+ IkiWiki::hook(type => "sanitize", id => "foo", call => \&sanitize);
+
+Use this to implement html sanitization or anything else that needs to
+modify the content of a page after it has been fully converted to html.
+The function is passed the page content and should return the sanitized
+content.
## delete
it is by using the IkiWiki::add_depends function, which takes as its
parameters the page name and a [[GlobList]] of dependencies to add.
+# A note on generating html links
+
+Many plugins need to generate html links and add them to a page. This is
+done by using the htmllink() function in ikiwiki. The usual way to call
+htmlllink is: `htmllink($page, $page, $link)`
+
+Why is $page repeated? Because if a page is inlined inside another, and a
+link is placed on it, the right way to make that link is actually:
+`htmllink($page, $destpage, $link)`
+
+Here $destpage is the inlining page. A destpage parameter is passed to some
+of the hook functions above; the ones that are not passed it are not used
+during inlining and don't need to worry about this issue.
+
# RCS plugins
ikiwiki's support for revision control systems also uses pluggable perl