X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/8f8959c96ecc69ecc75b5e5c76b52345afce94d8..9fa2294d4ecdd2ec8efa698c2396c6cfe452019d:/doc/plugins/template.mdwn diff --git a/doc/plugins/template.mdwn b/doc/plugins/template.mdwn index 8b089d904..98188d7dc 100644 --- a/doc/plugins/template.mdwn +++ b/doc/plugins/template.mdwn @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -[[template id=plugin name=template included=1 author="[[Joey]]"]] +[[template id=plugin name=template author="[[Joey]]"]] [[tag type/format]] With this plugin, you can set up templates, and cause them to be filled out @@ -25,11 +25,12 @@ large chunks of marked up text to be embedded into a template: To create a template, make a page in the wiki named `template/foo`. Note that this is a different location than the directory used for the -[[templates]] used to build the wiki itself, which is not inside the wiki. +[[templates]] used to build the wiki itself, which is not part of the wiki. -The template uses the syntax used by the 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: +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: * To insert the value of a variable, use ``. * To make a block of text conditional on a variable being set use @@ -52,3 +53,8 @@ Here's a sample template: + +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.