X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/2c05a34be17c805d929f0ad563acf857eba1d46b..3d82d47e1896b8e64c1e22b09a05968fc481aebf:/doc/plugins/write.mdwn diff --git a/doc/plugins/write.mdwn b/doc/plugins/write.mdwn index 4dc55e302..686f7e518 100644 --- a/doc/plugins/write.mdwn +++ b/doc/plugins/write.mdwn @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ written to extend ikiwiki in many ways. Despite the length of this page, it's not really hard. This page is a complete reference to everything a plugin might want to do. There is also a quick [[tutorial]]. -[[toc levels=2]] +[[!toc levels=2]] ## Types of plugins @@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ 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 "destpage" parameters are the same as for a preprocess hook. The "template" -parameter is a [[cpan HTML::Template]] object that is the template that +parameter is a [[!cpan HTML::Template]] object that is the template that will be used to generate the page. The function can manipulate that template object. @@ -216,6 +216,17 @@ modify the body of a page after it has been fully converted to html. The function is passed named parameters: "page", "destpage", and "content", and should return the sanitized content. +### postscan + + hook(type => "postscan", id => "foo", call => \&postscan); + +This hook is called once the full page body is available (but before the +format hook). The most common use is to update search indexes. Added in +ikiwiki 2.54. + +The function is passed named parameters "page" and "content". Its return +value is ignored. + ### format hook(type => "format", id => "foo", call => \&format); @@ -314,7 +325,7 @@ It can modify the content as desired, and should return the content. hook(type => "formbuilder_setup", id => "foo", call => \&formbuilder_setup); hook(type => "formbuilder", id => "foo", call => \&formbuilder); -These hooks allow tapping into the parts of ikiwiki that use [[cpan +These hooks allow tapping into the parts of ikiwiki that use [[!cpan CGI::FormBuilder]] to generate web forms. These hooks are passed named parameters: `cgi`, `session`, `form`, and `buttons`. These are, respectively, the `CGI` object, the user's `CGI::Session`, a `CGI::FormBuilder`, and a @@ -337,6 +348,56 @@ This hook is called whenever ikiwiki normally saves its state, just before the state is saved. The function can save other state, modify values before they're saved, etc. +## renamepage + + hook(type => "renamepage", id => "foo", call => \&renamepage); + +This hook is called by the [[plugins/rename]] plugin when it renames +something. The hook is passed named parameters: `page`, `oldpage`, +`newpage`, and `content`, and should try to modify the content to reflect +the name change. For example, by converting links to point to the new page. + +### getsetup + + hook(type => "getsetup", id => "foo", call => \&getsetup); + +This hooks is not called during normal operation, but only when setting up +the wiki, or generating a setup file. Plugins can use this hook to add +configuration options. + +The hook is passed no parameters. It returns data about the configuration +options added by the plugin. It can also check if the plugin is usable, and +die if the plugin is not available, which will cause the plugin to not be +offered in the configuration interface. + +The data returned is a list of `%config` options, followed by a hash +describing the option. For example: + + return + option_foo => { + type => "boolean", + description => "enable foo", + safe => 1, + rebuild => 1, + }, + option_bar => { + type => "string", + example => "hello", + description => "what to say", + safe => 1, + rebuild => 0, + }, + +* `type` can be "boolean", "string", "integer", "internal" (used for values + that are not user-visible). The type is the type of the leaf values; + the `%config` option may be an array or hash of these. +* `example` can be set to an example value. +* `description` is a short description of the option. +* `safe` should be false if the option should not be displayed in unsafe + configuration methods, such as the web interface. Anything that specifies + a command to run, a path on disk, or a regexp should be marked as unsafe. +* `rebuild` should be true if changing the option will require a wiki rebuild. + ## Plugin interface To import the ikiwiki plugin interface: @@ -422,7 +483,7 @@ the entire wiki build and make the wiki unusable. #### `template($;@)` -Creates and returns a [[cpan HTML::Template]] object. The first parameter +Creates and returns a [[!cpan HTML::Template]] object. The first parameter is the name of the file in the template directory. The optional remaining parameters are passed to `HTML::Template->new`. @@ -562,12 +623,15 @@ time. This is the standard gettext function, although slightly optimised. -#### `urlto($$)` +#### `urlto($$;$)` Construct a relative url to the first parameter from the page named by the second. The first parameter can be either a page name, or some other destination file, as registered by `will_render`. +If the third parameter is passed and is true, an absolute url will be +constructed instead of the default relative url. + #### `targetpage($$)` Passed a page and an extension, returns the filename that page will be @@ -624,4 +688,5 @@ when imported, populate `$IkiWiki::Setup::raw_setup` with a reference to a hash containing all the config items. By the way, to parse a ikiwiki setup file, a program just needs to -do something like `use IkiWiki::Setup; my %setup=IkiWiki::Setup::load($filename)` +do something like: +`use IkiWiki::Setup; my %setup=IkiWiki::Setup::load($filename)`