[[template id=plugin name=template 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 part of 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.

The filled out template will be formatted the same as the rest of the page that contains it, so you can include WikiLinks and all other forms of wiki markup in the template. Note though that such WikiLinks will not show up as backlinks to the page that uses the template.