Revert po vs. template kludges.

[ikiwiki.git] / doc / plugins / write.mdwn

diff --git a/doc/plugins/write.mdwn b/doc/plugins/write.mdwn
index 9128c7f5453bd14b679e37ea31fdd14510a3b58b..bb80123423453c5d01a558569f48924e05fbba55 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/plugins/write.mdwn
+++ b/doc/plugins/write.mdwn
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ built.
 Now that it knows what pages it needs to build, ikiwiki runs two
 compile passes. First, it runs `scan` hooks, which collect metadata about
 the pages. Then it runs a page rendering pipeline, by calling in turn these
-hooks: `filter`, `preprocess`, `linkify`, `htmlize`, `postscan`,
+hooks: `filter`, `preprocess`, `linkify`, `htmlize`, `indexhtml`,
 `pagetemplate`, `sanitize`, `format`.
 
 After all necessary pages are built, it calls the `change` hook. Finally,
@@ -282,16 +282,16 @@ like `Makefile` that have no extension.
 If `hook` is passed an optional "longname" parameter, this value is used
 when prompting a user to choose a page type on the edit page form.
 
-### postscan
+### indexhtml
 
-       hook(type => "postscan", id => "foo", call => \&postscan);
+       hook(type => "indexhtml", id => "foo", call => \&indexhtml);
 
 This hook is called once the page has been converted to html (but before
 the generated html is put in a template). The most common use is to
 update search indexes. Added in ikiwiki 2.54.
 
-The function is passed named parameters "page" and "content". Its return
-value is ignored.
+The function is passed named parameters "page", "destpage", and "content".
+Its return value is ignored.
 
 ### pagetemplate
 
@@ -319,6 +319,15 @@ should return the name of the template file to use (relative to the
 template directory), or undef if it doesn't want to change the default
 ("page.tmpl").
 
+### pageactions
+
+       hook(type => "pageactions", id => "foo", call => \&pageactions);
+
+This hook allows plugins to add arbitrary actions to the action bar on a
+page (next to Edit, RecentChanges, etc). The hook is passed a "page"
+parameter, and can return a list of html fragments to add to the action
+bar.
+
 ### sanitize
 
        hook(type => "sanitize", id => "foo", call => \&sanitize);
@@ -586,7 +595,10 @@ describes the plugin as a whole. For example:
        hook(type => "genwrapper", id => "foo", call => \&genwrapper);
 
 This hook is used to inject C code (which it returns) into the `main`
-function of the ikiwiki wrapper when it is being generated.
+function of the ikiwiki wrapper when it is being generated. 
+
+The code runs before anything else -- in particular it runs before
+the suid wrapper has sanitized its environment.
 
 ## Exported variables
 
@@ -701,9 +713,11 @@ the entire wiki build and make the wiki unusable.
 
 ### `template($;@)`
 
-Creates and returns a [[!cpan HTML::Template]] object. The first parameter
-is the name of the template file. The optional remaining parameters are
-passed to `HTML::Template->new`.
+Creates and returns a [[!cpan HTML::Template]] object. (In a list context,
+returns the parameters needed to construct the obhect.) 
+
+The first parameter is the name of the template file. The optional remaining
+parameters are passed to `HTML::Template->new`.
 
 Normally, the template file is first looked for in the templates/ subdirectory
 of the srcdir. Failing that, it is looked for in the templatedir.
@@ -936,13 +950,16 @@ search for files.
 If the directory name is not absolute, ikiwiki will assume it is in
 the parent directory of the configured underlaydir.
 
-### `displaytime($;$)`
+### `displaytime($;$$)`
 
 Given a time, formats it for display.
 
 The optional second parameter is a strftime format to use to format the
 time.
 
+If the third parameter is true, this is the publication time of a page.
+(Ie, set the html5 pubdate attribute.)
+
 ### `gettext`
 
 This is the standard gettext function, although slightly optimised.
@@ -1037,16 +1054,20 @@ token, that will be passed into `rcs_commit` when committing. For example,
 it might return the current revision ID of the file, and use that
 information later when merging changes.
 
-#### `rcs_commit($$$;$$)`
+#### `rcs_commit(@)`
+
+Passed named parameters: `file`, `message`, `token` (from `rcs_prepedit`),
+and `session` (optional).
 
-Passed a file, message, token (from `rcs_prepedit`), user, and ip address.
 Should try to commit the file. Returns `undef` on *success* and a version
 of the page with the rcs's conflict markers on failure.
 
-#### `rcs_commit_staged($$$)`
+#### `rcs_commit_staged(@)`
+
+Passed named parameters: `message`, and `session` (optional).
 
-Passed a message, user, and ip address. Should commit all staged changes.
-Returns undef on success, and an error message on failure.
+Should commit all staged changes. Returns undef on success, and an
+error message on failure.
 
 Changes can be staged by calls to `rcs_add`, `rcs_remove`, and
 `rcs_rename`.
@@ -1089,7 +1110,9 @@ The data structure returned for each change is:
 
        {
                rev => # the RCSs id for this commit
-               user => # name of user who made the change,
+               user => # user who made the change (may be an openid),
+               nickname => # short name for user (optional; not an openid),
+               
                committype => # either "web" or the name of the rcs,
                when => # time when the change was made,
                message => [