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
hook(type => "templatefile", id => "foo", call => \&templatefile);
-This hook allows plugins to change the [[template|wikitemplate]] that is
+This hook allows plugins to change the [[template|wikitemplates]] that is
used for a page in the wiki. The hook is passed a "page" parameter, and
should return the name of the template file to use, or undef if it doesn't
want to change the default ("page.tmpl"). Template files are looked for in
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);
* 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($;$)`
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($)`
Given the name of a source file, returns the type of page it is, if it's
#### `srcfile($)`
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.
-#### `displaytime($)`
+#### `add_underlay($)`
+
+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($;$)`
Given a time, formats it for display.
+The optional second parameter is a strftime format to use to format the
+time.
+
#### `gettext`
This is the standard gettext function, although slightly optimised.