X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/59ba938822ba0752e8d97e769c0d14f2eb0bbeb3..651cdd4b2a85f4e5f9d298a7eea7d0e6d94442b1:/doc/templates.mdwn?ds=sidebyside diff --git a/doc/templates.mdwn b/doc/templates.mdwn index 07531ae98..378e579ba 100644 --- a/doc/templates.mdwn +++ b/doc/templates.mdwn @@ -1,93 +1,100 @@ -[[!meta robots="noindex, follow"]] -[[!if test="enabled(template)" -then="This wiki has templates **enabled**." -else="This wiki has templates **disabled**." -]] +[[Ikiwiki]] uses many templates for many purposes. By editing its templates, +you can fully customise its appearance, and avoid duplicate content. -Templates are files that can be filled out and inserted into pages in the -wiki. +Ikiwiki uses the HTML::Template module as its template engine. This +supports things like conditionals and loops in templates and is pretty +easy to learn. All you really need to know to modify templates is this: -[[!if test="enabled(template) and enabled(inline)" then=""" +* To insert the value of a template variable, use ``. +* To make a block of text conditional on a variable being set use + `text`. +* To use one block of text if a variable is set and a second if it's not, + use `textother text` -These templates are available for inclusion onto other pages in this -wiki: +[[!if test="enabled(template) or enabled(edittemplate)" then=""" +## template pages -[[!inline pages="templates/* and !*/discussion" feeds=no archive=yes -sort=title template=titlepage]] +Template pages are regular wiki pages containing a +[[!iki ikiwiki/directive/templatebody desc="templatebody directive"]], +used as templates for other pages. The parts of the template +page outside the directive can be used to document it. """]] -## Using a template - -Using a template works like this: - - \[[!template id=note text="""Here is the text to insert into my note."""]] - -This fills out the [[note]] template, filling in the `text` field with -the specified value, and inserts the result into the page. - -Generally, a value can include any markup that would be allowed in the wiki -page outside the template. Triple-quoting the value even allows quotes to -be included in it. Combined with multi-line quoted values, this allows for -large chunks of marked up text to be embedded into a template: +[[!if test="enabled(template)" then=""" +The [[!iki ikiwiki/directive/template desc="template directive"]] allows +template pages to be filled out and inserted into other pages in the wiki. +"""]] - \[[!template id=foo name="Sally" color="green" age=8 notes=""" - * \[[Charley]]'s sister. - * "I want to be an astronaut when I grow up." - * Really 8 and a half. - """]] +[[!if test="enabled(edittemplate)" then=""" +The [[!iki ikiwiki/directive/edittemplate desc="edittemplate directive"]] can +be used to make new pages default to containing text from a template +page, which can be filled out as the page is edited. +"""]] -## Creating a template +[[!if test="(enabled(template) or enabled(edittemplate)) +and enabled(inline)" then=""" +These template pages are currently available: -To create a template, simply add a template directive to a page, and the -page will provide a link that can be used to create the template. The template -is a regular wiki page, located in the `templates/` subdirectory inside -the source directory of the wiki. +[[!inline pages="templates/* and !*.tmpl and !templates/*/* and !*/discussion" +feeds=no archive=yes sort=title template=titlepage +rootpage=templates postformtext="Add a new template page named:"]] +"""]] -(Alternatively, templates can be stored in a directory outside the wiki, -as files with the extension ".tmpl". -By default, these are searched for in `/usr/share/ikiwiki/templates`; -the `templatedir` setting can be used to make another directory be searched -first.) +If the template does not contain a `templatebody` directive, the entire +source of the page is used for the template. This is deprecated. + +## template files + +Template files are unlike template pages in that they have the extension +`.tmpl`. Template files are used extensively by Ikiwiki to generate html. +They can contain html that would not normally be allowed on a wiki page. + +Template files are located in `/usr/share/ikiwiki/templates` by default; +the `templatedir` setting can be used to make another directory be +searched first. Customised template files can also be placed inside the +"templates/" directory in your wiki's source -- files placed there override +ones in the `templatedir`. + +Here is a full list of the template files used: + +* `page.tmpl` - Used for displaying all regular wiki pages. This is the + key template to customise to change the look and feel of Ikiwiki. + [[!if test="enabled(pagetemplate)" then=""" + (The [[!iki ikiwiki/directive/pagetemplate desc="pagetemplate directive"]] + can be used to make a page use a different template than `page.tmpl`.)"""]] +* `rsspage.tmpl` - Used for generating rss feeds for blogs. +* `rssitem.tmpl` - Used for generating individual items on rss feeds. +* `atompage.tmpl` - Used for generating atom feeds for blogs. +* `atomitem.tmpl` - Used for generating individual items on atom feeds. +* `inlinepage.tmpl` - Used for displaying a post in a blog. +* `archivepage.tmpl` - Used for listing a page in a blog archive page. +* `titlepage.tmpl` - Used for listing a page by title in a blog archive page. +* `microblog.tmpl` - Used for showing a microblogging post inline. +* `blogpost.tmpl` - Used for a form to add a post to a blog (and rss/atom links) +* `feedlink.tmpl` - Used to add rss/atom links if `blogpost.tmpl` is not used. +* `aggregatepost.tmpl` - Used by the aggregate plugin to create + a page for a post. +* `searchform.tmpl`, `googleform.tmpl` - Used by the search plugin + and google plugin to add search forms to wiki pages. +* `searchquery.tmpl` - This is a Omega template, used by the + search plugin. +* `comment.tmpl` - Used by the comments plugin to display a comment. +* `change.tmpl` - Used to create a page describing a change made to the wiki. +* `recentchanges.tmpl` - Used for listing a change on the RecentChanges page. +* `autoindex.tmpl` - Filled in by the autoindex plugin to make index pages. +* `autotag.tmpl` - Filled in by the tag plugin to make tag pages. +* `calendarmonth.tmpl`, `calendaryear.tmpl` - Used by ikiwiki-calendar to + make calendar archive pages. +* `trails.tmpl` - Used by the trail plugin to generate links on each page + that is a member of a trail. +* `notifyemail.tmpl` - Used by the notifymail plugin to generate mails about + changed pages. +* `editpage.tmpl`, `editconflict.tmpl`, `editcreationconflict.tmpl`, + `editfailedsave.tmpl`, `editpagegone.tmpl`, `pocreatepage.tmpl`, + `editcomment.tmpl` `commentmoderation.tmpl`, `renamesummary.tmpl`, + `passwordmail.tmpl`, `emailauth.tmpl`, `login-selector.tmpl`, + `revert.tmpl` - Parts of ikiwiki's user interface; do not normally need + to be customised. -The template uses the syntax used by the [[!cpan HTML::Template]] perl -module, which allows for some fairly complex things to be done. Consult its -documentation for the full syntax, but all you really need to know are a -few things: -* Each parameter you pass to the template directive will generate a - template variable. There are also some pre-defined variables like PAGE - and BASENAME. -* To insert the value of a variable, use ``. Wiki markup - in the value will first be converted to html. -* To insert the raw value of a variable, with wiki markup not yet converted - to html, use ``. -* To make a block of text conditional on a variable being set use - `text`. -* To use one block of text if a variable is set and a second if it's not, - use `textother text` - -Here's a sample template: - - - Name: \[[]]
- Age:
- - Favorite color:
- - No favorite color.
- - -
- - - - -The filled out template will be formatted the same as the rest of the page -that contains it, so you can include WikiLinks and all other forms of wiki -markup in the template. Note though that such WikiLinks will not show up as -backlinks to the page that uses the template. - -Note the use of "raw_name" inside the [[ikiwiki/WikiLink]] generator. This -ensures that if the name contains something that might be mistaken for wiki -markup, it's not converted to html before being processed as a -[[ikiwiki/WikiLink]]. +[[!meta robots="noindex, follow"]]