### preprocess
-Adding a [[PreProcessorDirective]] is probably the most common use of a
-plugin.
+Adding a [[ikiwiki/PreProcessorDirective]] is probably the most common use
+of a plugin.
hook(type => "preprocess", id => "foo", call => \&preprocess);
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
-preprocessor time. Text output by a preprocessor directive will be
-linkified and passed through markdown (or whatever engine is used to htmlize
-the page) along with the rest of the page.
+[[ikiwiki/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 linkified and passed through markdown (or whatever engine is used to
+htmlize the page) along with the rest of the page.
### htmlize
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);
add/remove/change fields, tweak the validation code for the fields, etc. It
will not validate or display the form.
-Form validation and display can be overridden by the formbuilder hook.
-By default, ikiwiki will do a basic validation and display of the form,
-but if this hook is registered, it will stop that and let the hook take
-over. This hook is passed an additional named parameter: `buttons` is an
-array of the submit buttons for the form.
+Just before a form is displayed to the user, the `formbuilder` hook is
+called. It can be used to validate the form, but should not display it.
### savestate
hash. The best way to understand the contents of the hash is to look at
[[ikiwiki.setup]], which sets the hash content to configure the wiki.
+### %pagestate
+
+The `%pagestate` hash can be used by plugins to save state that they will need
+next time ikiwiki is run. The hash holds per-page state, so to set a value,
+use `%pagestate{$page}{$id}{$key}=$value`, and to retrieve the value,
+use `%pagestate{$page}{$id}{$key}`.
+
+`$key` can be any string you like, but `$id` must be the same as the "id"
+parameter passed to `hook()` when registering the plugin. This is so
+ikiwiki can know when to delete pagestate for plugins that are no longer
+used.
+
+When pages are deleted, ikiwiki automatically deletes their pagestate too.
+
+Note that page state does not persist across wiki rebuilds, only across
+wiki updates.
+
### Other variables
If your plugin needs to access data about other pages in the wiki. It can
Note that while any plugin can use this for a fatal error, plugins should
try to avoid dying on bad input, as that will halt the entire wiki build
-and make the wiki unusable. So for example, if a [[PreProcessorDirective]]
-is passed bad parameters, it's better to return an error message, which can
-appear on the wiki page, rather than calling error().
+and make the wiki unusable. So for example, if a
+[[ikiwiki/PreProcessorDirective]] is passed bad parameters, it's better to
+return an error message, which can appear on the wiki page, rather than
+calling error().
#### `template($;@)`
#### `add_depends($$)`
-Makes the specified page depend on the specified [[PageSpec]].
+Makes the specified page depend on the specified [[ikiwiki/PageSpec]].
#### `pagespec_match($$;@)`
-Passed a page name, and [[PageSpec]], returns true if the [[PageSpec]]
-matches the page.
+Passed a page name, and [[ikiwiki/PageSpec]], returns true if the
+[[ikiwiki/PageSpec]] matches the page.
Additional named parameters can be passed, to further limit the match.
The most often used is "location", which specifies the location the
existing page that link best points to. Prefers pages under a
subdirectory with the same name as the source page, failing that
goes down the directory tree to the base looking for matching
-pages, as described in [[SubPage/LinkingRules]].
+pages, as described in [[ikiwiki/SubPage/LinkingRules]].
#### `htmllink($$$;@)`
* 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.
+
+#### `add_underlay($)`
-#### `displaytime($)`
+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.
## 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
It's also possible to write plugins that add new functions to
-[[PageSpecs|PageSpec]]. Such a plugin should add a function to the
+[[PageSpecs|ikiwiki/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
+how it will be accessed in a [[ikiwiki/PageSpec]]. The function will be passed
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