[[template id=plugin name=template included=1 author="[[Joey]]"]] [[tag type/format]] 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 [[cpan 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`. * To use one block of text if a variable is set and a second if it's not, use `textother text` Here's a sample template: Name:
Age:
Favorite color:
No favorite color.