document will_render better

[git.ikiwiki.info.git] / doc / plugins / write.mdwn

diff --git a/doc/plugins/write.mdwn b/doc/plugins/write.mdwn
index bbe047d33995af287e299fe5d68af85bf2c35e4f..0e1839c6ca31157ddf0b5edcfd4d78529fbb2327 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/plugins/write.mdwn
+++ b/doc/plugins/write.mdwn
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ return the htmlized content.
 
        hook(type => "pagetemplate", id => "foo", call => \&pagetemplate);
 
-[[Templates|wikitemplate]] are filled out for many different things in
+[[Templates|wikitemplates]] are filled out for many different things in
 ikiwiki, like generating a page, or part of a blog page, or an rss feed, or
 a cgi. This hook allows modifying the variables available on those
 templates. The function is passed named parameters. The "page" and
@@ -251,6 +251,17 @@ by this hook, the hook should return an error message for the user to see.
 If the hook has no opinion about whether the edit can proceed, return
 `undef`, and the next plugin will be asked to decide.
 
+### editcontent
+
+       hook(type => "editcontent", id => "foo", call => \&editcontent);
+
+This hook is called when a page is saved (or previewed) using the web
+interface. It is passed named parameters: `content`, `page`, `cgi`, and
+`session`. These are, respectively, the new page content as entered by the
+user, the page name, a `CGI` object, and the user's `CGI::Session`. 
+
+It can modify the content as desired, and should return the content.
+
 ### formbuilder
 
        hook(type => "formbuilder_setup", id => "foo", call => \&formbuilder_setup);
@@ -401,7 +412,8 @@ control some options. These are:
 * forcesubpage  - set to force a link to a subpage
 * linktext - set to force the link text to something
 * anchor - set to make the link include an anchor
-* rel - set to add a rel attribute to the link.
+* rel - set to add a rel attribute to the link
+* class - set to add a css class to the link
 
 #### `readfile($;$)`
 
@@ -437,6 +449,10 @@ destination directory), register that the page will result in that file
 being rendered. It's important to call this before writing to any file in
 the destination directory.
 
+Ikiwiki uses this information to automatically clean up rendered files when
+the page that rendered them goes away or is changes to no longer render
+them. will_render also does a few important security checks.
+
 #### `pagetype($)`
 
 Given the name of a source file, returns the type of page it is, if it's
@@ -450,8 +466,16 @@ that corresponds to that file.
 #### `srcfile($)`
 
 Given the name of a source file in the wiki, searches for the file in
-the source directory and the underlay directory, and returns the full
-path to the first file found.
+the source directory and the underlay directories (most recently added
+underlays first), and returns the full path to the first file found.
+
+#### `add_underlay($)`
+
+Adds a directory to the set of underlay directories that ikiwiki will
+search for files.
+
+If the directory name is not absolute, ikiwiki will assume it is in
+the parent directory of the configured underlaydir.
 
 #### `displaytime($)`
 
@@ -474,15 +498,15 @@ rendered to.
 
 ## RCS plugins
 
-ikiwiki's support for revision control systems also uses pluggable perl
-modules. These are in the `IkiWiki::RCS` namespace, for example
+ikiwiki's support for [[revision_control_systems|rcs]] also uses pluggable
+perl modules. These are in the `IkiWiki::RCS` namespace, for example
 `IkiWiki::RCS::svn`. 
 
 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.
 
-See [[about_RCS_backends]] for some more info.
+See [[RCS_details|rcs/details]] for some more info.
 
 ## PageSpec plugins