X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/157df8591f03ade7504ad732446f125ae8609b05..8d4c474f3b92ed2d0e8f968e34a5c6d9d30921fe:/doc/plugins/write.mdwn?ds=sidebyside diff --git a/doc/plugins/write.mdwn b/doc/plugins/write.mdwn index ae2f8b904..5be90efdf 100644 --- a/doc/plugins/write.mdwn +++ b/doc/plugins/write.mdwn @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ lowercase, such as `IkiWiki::Plugin::inline`. Ikiwiki includes a `IkiWiki::Plugin::skeleton` that can be fleshed out to make a useful plugin. `IkiWiki::Plugin::pagecount` is another simple example. -## Note +# Note One thing to keep in mind when writing a plugin is that ikiwiki is a wiki *compiler*. So plugins influence pages when they are built, not when they @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ random or changing thing on a page will generate a static page that won't change until ikiwiki rebuilds the page for some other reason, like the page being edited. -## Registering plugins +# Registering plugins Plugins should, when imported, call IkiWiki::hook to hook into ikiwiki's processing. The function uses named parameters, and use varies depending on @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ hook, a "id" paramter, which should be a unique string for this plugin, and a "call" parameter, which is a reference to a function to call for the hook. -## Writing a [[PreProcessorDirective]] +# Writing a [[PreProcessorDirective]] This is probably the most common use of a plugin. @@ -35,32 +35,35 @@ This is probably the most common use of a plugin. 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. 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 +## Error handing While a plugin can call ikiwiki's error routine for a fatal error, for errors that aren't intended to halt the entire wiki build, including bad parameters passed to a [[PreProcessorDirective]], etc, it's better to just return the error message as the output of the plugin. -### Html issues +## Html issues -Note that if [[HTMLSanitization]] is enabled, html in +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 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 +# Other types of hooks Beyond PreProcessorDirectives, Other types of hooks that can be used by plugins include: -### checkconfig +## checkconfig IkiWiki::hook(type => "checkconfig", id => "foo", call => \&checkconfig); @@ -69,22 +72,51 @@ configuration. It's called early in the ikiwiki startup process. The function is passed no values. It's ok for the function to call IkiWiki::error if something isn't configured right. -### filter +## filter IkiWiki::hook(type => "filter", id => "foo", call => \&filter); Runs on the raw source of a page, before anything else touches it, and can make arbitrary changes. The function is passed named parameters `page` and -`content` should return the filtered content. +`content` and should return the filtered content. -### delete +## htmlize + + IkiWiki::hook(type => "htmlize", id => "ext", call => \&filter); + +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. + +## 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 IkiWiki::hook(type => "delete", id => "foo", call => \&dele); Each time a page or pages is removed from the wiki, the referenced function is called, and passed the names of the source files that were removed. -### change +## change IkiWiki::hook(type => "change", id => "foo", call => \&render); @@ -92,7 +124,7 @@ Each time ikiwiki renders a change or addition (but not deletion) to the wiki, the referenced function is called, and passed the names of the source files that were rendered. -### cgi +## cgi IkiWiki::hook(type => "cgi", id => "foo", call => \&cgi); @@ -101,13 +133,13 @@ called in turn, and passed a CGI object. The hook should examine the parameters, and if it will handle this CGI request, output a page and terminate the program. -## Wiki configuration +# Wiki configuration A plugin can access the wiki's configuration via the `%IkiWiki::config` 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. -## Wiki data +# Wiki data If your plugin needs to access data about other pages in the wiki. It can use the following hashes, using a page name as the key: @@ -127,19 +159,7 @@ use the following hashes, using a page name as the key: it is by using the IkiWiki::add_depends function, which takes as its parameters the page name and a [[GlobList]] of dependencies to add. -## Page templates - -Plugins are mostly limited to changing the content of pages, to change the -look and feel of the wiki it's generally better to use a stylesheet and -[[templates]]. However, there are some hooks in the templates that plugins -can use to add stuff to the wiki's UI: - -### Adding content to the page header - -Html that is added to $IkiWiki::config{headercontent} will show up in the -header of the page. One good thing to put here is a search form. - -## RCS plugins +# RCS plugins ikiwiki's support for revision control systems also uses pluggable perl modules. These are in the `IkiWiki::RCS` namespace, for example