X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/7960031135e74f6d36abc4294dbadb687117222c..c5642119f7fafdafdaff05c0d37e787de221e9e2:/doc/plugins/calendar.mdwn diff --git a/doc/plugins/calendar.mdwn b/doc/plugins/calendar.mdwn index 784e949a0..d695762b7 100644 --- a/doc/plugins/calendar.mdwn +++ b/doc/plugins/calendar.mdwn @@ -1,53 +1,15 @@ -[[template id=plugin name=calendar author="[[ManojSrivastava]]"]] -[[tag type/chrome]] +[[!template id=plugin name=calendar author="[[ManojSrivastava]]"]] +[[!tag type/chrome]] -This plugin displays a calendar, similar to the typical calendars shown on +This plugin provides a [[ikiwiki/directive/calendar]] [[ikiwiki/directive]]. +The directive displays a calendar, similar to the typical calendars shown on some blogs. -# examples +Since ikiwiki is a wiki compiler, to keep the calendar up-to-date, +wikis that include it need to be periodically refreshes, typically by cron +at midnight. Example crontab: - \[[calendar ]] - - \[[calendar type="month" pages="blog/* and !*/Discussion"]] - - \[[calendar type="year" year="2005" pages="blog/* and !*/Discussion"]] - -This plugin is inspired by the calendar plugin for Blosxom, but -derives no code from it. This plugin is essentially a fancy front end -to archives of previous pages, usually used for blogs. It can produce -a calendar for a given month, or a list of months for a given year. - -The tricky part of this is that while calendar defaults to showing the -current day and month, ikiwiki is a wiki compiler, which only rebuilds -pages if they have changed. So to keep the calendar up-to-date, wikis that -include it need to be periodically rebuilt, typically by cron at midnight. - -The month format calendar simply links to any page posted on each -day of the month. The year format calendar links to archive pages, with -names like `archives/2007` (for all of 2007) and `archives/2007/01` -(for January, 2007). For this to work, you'll need to create these archive -pages. They typically use [[inline]] to display or list pages created in -the given time frame. - -## usage - -* `type` - Used to specify the type of calendar wanted. Can be one of - "month" or "year". The default is a month view calendar. -* `pages` - Specifies the [[ikiwiki/PageSpec]] of pages to link to from the - month calendar. Defaults to "*". -* `archivebase` - Configures the base of the archives hierarchy. The - default is "archives". Note that this default can also be overridden - for the whole wiki by setting `archivebase` in ikiwiki's setup file. -* `year` - The year for which the calendar is requested. Defaults to the - current year. -* `month` - The numeric month for which the calendar is requested, in the - range 1..12. Used only for the month view calendar, and defaults to the - current month. -* `week_start_day` - A number, in the range 0..6, which represents the day - of the week that the month calendar starts with. 0 is Sunday, 1 is Monday, - and so on. Defaults to 0, which is Sunday. -* `months_per_row` - In the annual calendar, number of months to place in - each row. Defaults to 3. + 0 0 * * * ikiwiki -setup ~/ikiwiki.setup -refresh ## CSS @@ -58,7 +20,7 @@ customization. * `month-calendar-head` - The head of the month calendar (ie,"March"). * `month-calendar-day-head` - A column head in the month calendar (ie, a day-of-week abbreviation). -* `month-calendar-day-noday`, `month-calendar-day-link`, +* `month-calendar-day-noday`, `month-calendar-day-link`, `month-calendar-day-nolink`, `month-calendar-day-future`, `month-calendar-day-this-day` - The day squares on the month calendar, for days that are not in the month (before or after the month itself), that