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authorJoey Hess <joey@kodama.kitenet.net>2008-07-10 00:36:57 -0400
committerJoey Hess <joey@kodama.kitenet.net>2008-07-10 00:36:57 -0400
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@@ -46,11 +46,13 @@ being edited.
Plugins should, when imported, call `hook()` to hook into ikiwiki's
processing. The function uses named parameters, and use varies depending on
-the type of hook being registered -- see below. Note that a plugin can call
-the function more than once to register multiple hooks. All calls to
-`hook()` should be passed a "type" parameter, which gives the type of
-hook, a "id" paramter, which should be a unique string for this plugin, and
-a "call" parameter, which tells what function to call for the hook.
+the type of hook being registered -- see below. A plugin can call
+the function more than once to register multiple hooks.
+
+All calls to `hook()` should be passed a "type" parameter, which gives the
+type of hook, a "id" parameter, which should be a unique string for this
+plugin, and a "call" parameter, which tells what function to call for the
+hook.
An optional "last" parameter, if set to a true value, makes the hook run
after all other hooks of its type. Useful if the hook depends on some other
@@ -99,6 +101,18 @@ built when the wiki is refreshed. The function is passed a reference to an
array of pages that will be rebuilt, and can modify the array, either
adding or removing files from it.
+### scan
+
+ hook(type => "scan", id => "foo", call => \&scan);
+
+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`.
+Present in IkiWiki 2.40 and later.
+
+The function is passed named parameters "page" and "content". Its return
+value is ignored.
+
### filter
hook(type => "filter", id => "foo", call => \&filter);
@@ -154,23 +168,11 @@ and later.
Plugins that implement linkify must also implement a scan hook, that scans
for the links on the page and adds them to `%links`.
-### scan
-
- hook(type => "scan", id => "foo", call => \&scan);
-
-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`.
-Present in IkiWiki 2.40 and later.
-
-The function is passed named parameters "page" and "content". Its return
-value is ignored.
-
### htmlize
hook(type => "htmlize", id => "ext", call => \&htmlize);
-Runs on the raw source of a page and turns it into html. The id parameter
+Runs on the source of a page and turns it into html. The id parameter
specifies the filename extension that a file must have to be htmlized using
this plugin. This is how you can add support for new and exciting markup
languages to ikiwiki.
@@ -258,9 +260,9 @@ state is loaded, and with no session information.
hook(type => "auth", id => "foo", call => \&auth);
-This hook can be used to implement a different authentication method than
-the standard web form. When a user needs to be authenticated, each registered
-auth hook is called in turn, and passed a CGI object and a session object.
+This hook can be used to implement an authentication method. When a user
+needs to be authenticated, each registered auth hook is called in turn, and
+passed a CGI object and a session object.
If the hook is able to authenticate the user, it should set the session
object's "name" parameter to the authenticated user's name. Note that
@@ -331,7 +333,7 @@ called. It can be used to validate the form, but should not display it.
hook(type => "savestate", id => "foo", call => \&savestate);
-This hook is called wheneven ikiwiki normally saves its state, just before
+This hook is called whenever ikiwiki normally saves its state, just before
the state is saved. The function can save other state, modify values before
they're saved, etc.
@@ -339,7 +341,7 @@ they're saved, etc.
To import the ikiwiki plugin interface:
- use IkiWiki '1.00';
+ use IkiWiki '2.00';
This will import several variables and functions into your plugin's
namespace. These variables and functions are the ones most plugins need,
@@ -411,8 +413,8 @@ function that is called after the error message is printed, to do any final
cleanup.
Note that while any plugin can use this for a fatal error, plugins should
-try to avoid dying on bad input, as that will halt the entire wiki build
-and make the wiki unusable. So for example, if a
+try to avoid dying on bad input when building a page, as that will halt
+the entire wiki build and make the wiki unusable. So for example, if a
[[ikiwiki/PreProcessorDirective]] is passed bad parameters, it's better to
return an error message, which can appear on the wiki page, rather than
calling error().