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| author | Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2010-04-23 15:02:07 -0400 |
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| committer | Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2010-04-23 15:02:07 -0400 |
| commit | 78fd3b35a2805489185a14e00b53b450eec961f1 (patch) | |
| tree | bfe42959228eb1e50bbf90e4679eefe56fafe9e3 /doc | |
| parent | ee8d237f98b2c82b441dc7c26f6ce8545362cb73 (diff) | |
allow template pages to not be under templates/
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/plugins/write.mdwn | 14 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/doc/plugins/write.mdwn b/doc/plugins/write.mdwn index 1407b5a12..00b54bdd3 100644 --- a/doc/plugins/write.mdwn +++ b/doc/plugins/write.mdwn @@ -705,12 +705,14 @@ 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`. -The template file is first looked for in the templates/ subdirectory of the -srcdir. Failing that, it is looked for in the templatedir. Typically -the filename will have a ".tmpl" extension. If a filename with no extension -is passed, a wiki page in templates/ with its name is used as the template. -That should only be done for templates which it is safe to let wiki users -edit. +Normally, the template file is first looked for in the templates/ subdirectory +of the srcdir. Failing that, it is looked for in the templatedir. + +Wiki pages can be used as templates. This should be done only for templates +which it is safe to let wiki users edit. Enable it by passing a filename +with no ".tmpl" extension. Template pages are normally looked for in +the templates/ directory. If the page name starts with "/", a page +elsewhere in the wiki can be used. ### `template_depends($$;@)` |