-[[if test="enabled(template)"
+[[!meta robots="noindex, follow"]]
+[[!if test="enabled(template)"
then="This wiki has templates **enabled**."
else="This wiki has templates **disabled**."
]]
Templates are files that can be filled out and inserted into pages in the
wiki.
-[[if test="enabled(template) and enabled(inline)" then="""
-
-## Available templates
+[[!if test="enabled(template) and enabled(inline)" then="""
These templates are available for inclusion onto other pages in this
wiki:
-[[inline pages="templates/* and !*/discussion" feeds=no archive=yes
+[[!inline pages="templates/* and !*/discussion" feeds=no archive=yes
sort=title template=titlepage]]
"""]]
Using a template works like this:
- \[[template id=note text="""Here is the text to insert into my note."""]]
+ \[[!template id=note text="""Here is the text to insert into my note."""]]
This fills out the [[note]] template, filling in the `text` field with
the specified value, and inserts the result into the page.
be included in it. Combined with multi-line quoted values, this allows for
large chunks of marked up text to be embedded into a template:
- \[[template id=foo name="Sally" color="green" age=8 notes="""
+ \[[!template id=foo name="Sally" color="green" age=8 notes="""
* \[[Charley]]'s sister.
* "I want to be an astronaut when I grow up."
* Really 8 and a half.
## Creating a template
-To create a template, simply add a template directive to a page, and page will
-provide a link that can be used to create the template. The template is a
-regular wiki page, located in the `templates/` directory.
+To create a template, simply add a template directive to a page, and the
+page will provide a link that can be used to create the template. The template
+is a regular wiki page, located in the `templates/` subdirectory inside
+the source directory of the wiki.
+
+(Alternatively, templates can be stored in a directory outside the wiki,
+as files with the extension ".tmpl".
+By default, these are searched for in `/usr/share/ikiwiki/templates`;
+the `templatedir` setting can be used to make another directory be searched
+first.)
-The template uses the syntax used by the [[cpan HTML::Template]] perl
+The template uses the syntax used by the [[!cpan HTML::Template]] perl
module, which allows for some fairly complex things to be done. Consult its
documentation for the full syntax, but all you really need to know are a
few things:
+* Each parameter you pass to the template directive will generate a
+ template variable. There are also some pre-defined variables like PAGE
+ and BASENAME.
* To insert the value of a variable, use `<TMPL_VAR variable>`. Wiki markup
in the value will first be converted to html.
* To insert the raw value of a variable, with wiki markup not yet converted
Here's a sample template:
<span class="infobox">
- Name: [[<TMPL_VAR raw_name>]]<br />
+ Name: \[[<TMPL_VAR raw_name>]]<br />
Age: <TMPL_VAR age><br />
<TMPL_IF NAME="color">
Favorite color: <TMPL_VAR color><br />
markup in the template. Note though that such WikiLinks will not show up as
backlinks to the page that uses the template.
-Note the use of "raw_name" inside the [[WikiLink]] generator. This ensures
-that if the name contains something that might be mistaken for wiki markup,
-it's not converted to html before being processed as a [[WikiLink]].
+Note the use of "raw_name" inside the [[ikiwiki/WikiLink]] generator. This
+ensures that if the name contains something that might be mistaken for wiki
+markup, it's not converted to html before being processed as a
+[[ikiwiki/WikiLink]].