X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/27ca70225e9d9e032fdd90a9706f946300f3798a..b39a76849d3c90ffc68627d1d6fe6cb5a821b215:/doc/plugins/write/tutorial.mdwn diff --git a/doc/plugins/write/tutorial.mdwn b/doc/plugins/write/tutorial.mdwn index 6675fe713..e1b34b800 100644 --- a/doc/plugins/write/tutorial.mdwn +++ b/doc/plugins/write/tutorial.mdwn @@ -5,10 +5,10 @@ What should the plugin do? Let's make it calculate and output the Fibonacci sequence. To output the next number in the sequence, all a user has to do is write this on a wiki page: - [[fib ]] + \[[!fib]] -When the page is built, the inclusion will be replaced by the next number in the -sequence. +When the page is built, the [[ikiwiki/directive]] will be +replaced by the next number in the sequence. Most of ikiwiki's plugins are written in Perl, and it's currently easiest to write them in Perl. So, open your favorite text editor and start @@ -39,16 +39,16 @@ register hooks that ikiwiki will call later. } This has hooked our plugin into the preprocess hook, which ikiwiki uses to -expand [[PreprocessorDirectives|ikiwiki/preprocessordirective]]. Notice +expand preprocessor [[directives|ikiwiki/directive]]. Notice that "fib" has shown up again. It doesn't actually have to match the module name this time, but it generally will. This "fib" is telling ikiwiki what -kind of PreprocessorDirective to handle, namely one that looks like this: +kind of preprocessor directive to handle, namely one that looks like this: - [[fib ]] + [[!fib ]] Notice the `\&preprocess`? This is how you pass a reference to a function, and the `preprocess` function is the one that ikiwiki will call to expand -the PreprocessorDirective. So, time to write that function: +the preprocessor directive. So, time to write that function: sub preprocess { my %params=@_; @@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ And let's change the `preprocess` sub to use it: Feel free to try it out with a simple page like this: - [[fib ]], [[fib ]], [[fib ]], [[fib ]], [[fib ]] + [[!fib ]], [[!fib ]], [[!fib ]], [[!fib ]], [[!fib ]] Looks like it works ok, doesn't it? That creates a page that lists: @@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ a page that uses fib. Now the inlined page will have one set of numbers, and the standalone page another. The numbers might even skip over part of the sequence in some cases. -Obviously, using a global `$last` veriable was a bad idea. It would +Obviously, using a global `$last` variable was a bad idea. It would work ok in a more regular cgi-based wiki, which only outputs one page per run. But since ikiwiki is a wiki *compiler*, things are a bit more complicated. It's not very hard to fix, though, if we do want the sequence @@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ Ok, one more enhancement. Just incrementing the numbers is pretty boring. It would be nice to be able to jump directly to a given point in the sequence: - \[[fib seed=20]], [[fib ]], [[fib ]] + \[[!fib seed=20]], [[!fib ]], [[!fib ]] Just insert these lines of code inside `preprocess`, in the appropriate spot: @@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ be a guard on how high it will go. } my $num=$last{$page}++; if ($num > 25) { - return "[[fib will only calculate the first 25 numbers in the sequence]]"; + error "can only calculate the first 25 numbers in the sequence"; } return fib($num); } @@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ does for numbers less than 1. Or for any number that's not an integer. In either case, it will run forever. Here's one way to fix that: if (int($num) != $num || $num < 1) { - return "[[fib positive integers only, please]]"; + error "positive integers only, please"; } As these security problems have demonstrated, even a simple input from the