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authorintrigeri <intrigeri@boum.org>2009-03-08 09:50:27 +0100
committerintrigeri <intrigeri@boum.org>2009-03-08 09:50:27 +0100
commitae474d8e14631ff519ed7d54bb64eaa0538f56d9 (patch)
tree09637db5faf2632b67b581cf04463fe4493584d4 /doc/plugins/write.mdwn
parent0314ed459ba1c49fad9170a54cc05f1c9e9c96bf (diff)
parent08e4472fc469c630ebef93e16a66a5a69d9cb33a (diff)
Merge commit 'upstream/master' into prv/po
Conflicts: IkiWiki/Plugin/editpage.pm debian/control debian/copyright doc/todo/need_global_renamepage_hook.mdwn Signed-off-by: intrigeri <intrigeri@boum.org>
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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