X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/9d7375c3b263e77da29a5db22af480db8b99d990..4e1782fb78da29b6d2f2b1b32657ca31ca9aec74:/doc/plugins/template.mdwn diff --git a/doc/plugins/template.mdwn b/doc/plugins/template.mdwn index 9e2ab0891..3485fe64c 100644 --- a/doc/plugins/template.mdwn +++ b/doc/plugins/template.mdwn @@ -1,49 +1,7 @@ -[[template id=plugin name=template included=1 author="""[[Joey]]"""]] -[[tag type/format]] +[[!template id=plugin name=template author="[[Joey]]"]] +[[!tag type/format]] +This plugin provides the [[ikiwiki/directive/template]] [[ikiwiki/directive]]. With this plugin, you can set up templates, and cause them to be filled out -and inserted into pages in the wiki. Using a template works like this: - - \[[template id=foo name="Charley" color="red" age=11]] - -This fills out the template `templates/foo`, filling in the `color` and `age` -fields on it with the specified values, and inserts the result into the page. - -If a value is triple-quoted, it can include any markup that would be -allowed in the wiki page outside the template. Combined with multi-line -quoted values, this allows for large chunks of marked up text to be -embedded into a template: - - \[[template id=foo name="Sally" color="green" age=8 notes=""" - * \[[Charley]]'s sister. - * Really 8 and a half. - * Wants to be an astronaut when she grows up. - """]] - -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. - -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: - -* To insert the value of a variable, use ``. -* To make a block of text conditional on a variable being set use - `text`. - -Here's a sample template: - - - Name:
- Age:
- - Favorite color:
- - No favorite color.
-
- -
- -
-
+and inserted into pages in the wiki. It's documented and existing templates +are listed in the [[templates]] page.