X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/d4ca3b3f50027d0dfd052f77ddcc4290ab0e6a81..1d46ebef52412b3b93e547ce124d813cf34e3b56:/doc/plugins/template.mdwn diff --git a/doc/plugins/template.mdwn b/doc/plugins/template.mdwn index 6f38e554e..8d17e2825 100644 --- a/doc/plugins/template.mdwn +++ b/doc/plugins/template.mdwn @@ -1,54 +1,7 @@ -[[template id=plugin name=template included=1 author="""[[Joey]]"""]] -[[tag type/format]] +[[!template id=plugin name=template author="[[Joey]]"]] +[[!tag type/widget]] +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. - -(Note that if the template doesn't exist, the page will provide a link that -can be used to create it.) - -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: - - \[[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. - """]] - -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 `<TMPL_VAR variable>`. -* To make a block of text conditional on a variable being set use - `<TMPL_IF NAME="variable">text</TMPL_IF>`. -* To use one block of text if a variable is set and a second if it's not, - use `<TMPL_IF NAME="variable">text<TMPL_ELSE>other text</TMPL_IF>` - -Here's a sample template: - - <span class="infobox"> - Name: <TMPL_VAR name><br /> - Age: <TMPL_VAR age><br /> - <TMPL_IF NAME="color"> - Favorite color: <TMPL_VAR color><br /> - <TMPL_ELSE> - No favorite color.<br /> - </TMPL_IF> - <TMPL_IF NAME="notes"> - <hr /> - <TMPL_VAR notes> - </TMPL_IF> - </span> +and inserted into pages in the wiki. Existing templates are listed in the +[[templates]] page.