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diff --git a/doc/plugins/write.mdwn b/doc/plugins/write.mdwn index 0c5ad4540..be01605e8 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); @@ -470,7 +475,7 @@ 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 @@ -665,6 +670,16 @@ 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 @@ -706,7 +721,7 @@ a wiki page name. #### `linkpage($)` This converts text that could have been entered by the user as a -[[WikiLink]] into a wiki page name. +[[ikiwiki/WikiLink]] into a wiki page name. #### `srcfile($;$)` @@ -771,7 +786,7 @@ 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]]. @@ -940,7 +955,7 @@ 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 |