X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/ffec6806087981420eaf83c8d83cc4523a46d0de..5ec9c7af7579341a751de9ccbedc21438ea14be0:/doc/plugins/write.mdwn?ds=inline

diff --git a/doc/plugins/write.mdwn b/doc/plugins/write.mdwn
index 405876d58..696bc6bc3 100644
--- a/doc/plugins/write.mdwn
+++ b/doc/plugins/write.mdwn
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ adding or removing files from it.
 
 This hook is called early in the process of building the wiki, and is used
 as a first pass scan of the page, to collect metadata about the page. It's
-mostly used to scan the page for WikiLinks, and add them to `%links`.
+mostly used to scan the page for [[WikiLinks|ikiwiki/WikiLink]], and add them to `%links`.
 Present in IkiWiki 2.40 and later.
 
 The function is passed named parameters "page" and "content". Its return
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ htmlize the page) along with the rest of the page.
 
 	hook(type => "linkify", id => "foo", call => \&linkify);
 
-This hook is called to convert [[WikiLinks|WikiLink]] on the page into html
+This hook is called to convert [[WikiLinks|ikiwiki/WikiLink]] on the page into html
 links. The function is passed named parameters "page", "destpage", and
 "content". It should return the linkified content.  Present in IkiWiki 2.40
 and later.
@@ -189,9 +189,14 @@ The function is passed named parameters: "page" and "content" and should
 return the htmlized content.
 
 If `hook` is passed an optional "keepextension" parameter, set to a true
-value, then this extension will not be stripped from the source filename when
+value, then the extension will not be stripped from the source filename when
 generating the page.
 
+If `hook` is passed an optional "noextension" parameter, set to a true
+value, then the id parameter specifies not a filename extension, but
+a whole filename that can be htmlized. This is useful for files
+like `Makefile` that have no extension.
+
 ### pagetemplate
 
 	hook(type => "pagetemplate", id => "foo", call => \&pagetemplate);
@@ -303,7 +308,7 @@ can check if the session object has a "name" parameter set.
 
 ### canedit
 
-	hook(type => "canedit", id => "foo", call => \&pagelocked);
+	hook(type => "canedit", id => "foo", call => \&canedit);
 
 This hook can be used to implement arbitrary access methods to control when
 a page can be edited using the web interface (commits from revision control
@@ -321,6 +326,26 @@ This hook should avoid directly redirecting the user to a signin page,
 since it's sometimes used to test to see which pages in a set of pages a
 user can edit.
 
+### checkcontent
+	
+	hook(type => "checkcontent", id => "foo", call => \&checkcontent);
+
+This hook is called to check the content a user has entered on a page,
+before it is saved, and decide if it should be allowed.
+
+It is passed named parameters: `content`, `page`, `cgi`, and `session`. If
+the content the user has entered is a comment, it may also be passed some
+additional parameters: `author`, `url`, and `subject`. The `subject`
+parameter may also be filled with the user's comment about the change.
+
+Note: When the user edits an existing wiki page, the passed `content` will
+include only the lines that they added to the page, or modified.
+
+The hook should return `undef` on success. If the content is disallowed, it
+should return a message stating what the problem is, or a function
+that can be run to perform whatever action is necessary to allow the user
+to post the content.
+
 ### editcontent
 
 	hook(type => "editcontent", id => "foo", call => \&editcontent);
@@ -414,7 +439,7 @@ describes the plugin as a whole. For example:
 * `example` can be set to an example value.
 * `description` is a short description of the option.
 * `link` is a link to further information about the option. This can either
-  be a wikilink, or an url.
+  be a [[ikiwiki/WikiLink]], or an url.
 * `advanced` can be set to true if the option is more suitable for advanced
   users.
 * `safe` should be false if the option should not be displayed in unsafe
@@ -609,6 +634,16 @@ A failure to write the file will result in it dying with an error.
 
 If the destination directory doesn't exist, it will first be created.
 
+The filename and directory are separate parameters because of
+some security checks done to avoid symlink attacks. Before writing a file,
+it checks to make sure there's not a symlink with its name, to avoid
+following the symlink. If the filename parameter includes a subdirectory
+to put the file in, it also checks if that subdirectory is a symlink, etc.
+The directory parameter, however, is not checked for symlinks. So,
+generally the directory parameter is a trusted toplevel directory like
+the srcdir or destdir, and any subdirectories of this are included in the
+filename parameter.
+
 #### `will_render($$)`
 
 Given a page name and a destination file name (not including the base
@@ -650,7 +685,7 @@ a wiki page name.
 #### `linkpage($)`
 
 This converts text that could have been entered by the user as a
-[[WikiLink]] into a wiki page name.
+[[ikiwiki/WikiLink]] into a wiki page name.
 
 #### `srcfile($;$)`
 
@@ -715,7 +750,7 @@ are collected together to form the RecentChanges page, for example.
 
 To make an internal use page, register a filename extension that starts
 with "_". Internal use pages cannot be edited with the web interface,
-generally shouldn't contain wikilinks or preprocessor directives (use
+generally shouldn't contain [[WikiLinks|ikiwiki/WikiLink]] or preprocessor directives (use
 either on them with extreme caution), and are not matched by regular
 PageSpecs glob patterns, but instead only by a special `internal()`
 [[ikiwiki/PageSpec]].
@@ -884,7 +919,7 @@ or wrap one of the functions.
 For example, your plugin might want to override `displaytime`, to change
 the html markup used when displaying a date. Or it might want to override
 `IkiWiki::formattime`, to change how a date is formatted. Or perhaps you
-want to override `bestlink` and change how ikiwiki deals with WikiLinks.
+want to override `bestlink` and change how ikiwiki deals with [[WikiLinks|ikiwiki/WikiLink]].
 
 By venturing into this territory, your plugin is becoming tightly tied to
 ikiwiki's internals. And it might break if those internals change. But