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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/ikiwiki-transition.mdwn | 12 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/index/discussion.mdwn | 36 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/tips/inside_dot_ikiwiki.mdwn | 65 |
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diff --git a/doc/ikiwiki-transition.mdwn b/doc/ikiwiki-transition.mdwn index 118050a6c..da3b3a8d5 100644 --- a/doc/ikiwiki-transition.mdwn +++ b/doc/ikiwiki-transition.mdwn @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ ikiwiki-transition - transition ikiwiki pages to new syntaxes # SYNOPSIS -ikiwiki-transition prefix_directives page.mdwn... +ikiwiki-transition type ... # DESCRIPTION @@ -12,8 +12,8 @@ ikiwiki-transition prefix_directives page.mdwn... there's a major change in ikiwiki syntax. Currently only one such transition is handled, the `prefix_directives` mode -converts an ikiwiki page from the old preprocessor directive syntax, -requiring a space, to the new syntax, prefixed by '!'. +converts the specified ikiwiki page from the old preprocessor directive +syntax, requiring a space, to the new syntax, prefixed by '!'. Preprocessor directives which already use the new syntax will remain unchanged. @@ -22,6 +22,12 @@ Note that if the page contains wiki links with spaces, which some older versions of ikiwiki accepted, the prefix_directives transition will treat these as preprocessor directives and convert them. +One other transition is handled, the `indexdb` mode handles converting +a plain text `.ikiwiki/index` file to a binary `.ikiwiki/indexdb`. In this +mode, you should specify the srcdir of the wiki as the second parameter. +You do not normally need to run `ikiwiki-transition indexdb`; ikiwiki will +automatically run it as necessary. + # AUTHOR Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org> diff --git a/doc/index/discussion.mdwn b/doc/index/discussion.mdwn index df4e57aba..3d17ddb2a 100644 --- a/doc/index/discussion.mdwn +++ b/doc/index/discussion.mdwn @@ -337,42 +337,6 @@ Clicking on an old "?" or going to a create link but new Markdown content exists ---- -# User database tools? - -Any tool to view user database? - -Any tool to edit the user database? - -> No, but it's fairly easy to write such tools in perl. For example, to -> list all users in the user database: - - joey@kodama:~/src/joeywiki/.ikiwiki>perl -le 'use Storable; my $userinfo=Storable::retrieve("userdb"); print $_ foreach keys %$userinfo' - http://joey.kitenet.net/ - foo - -> To list each user's email address: - - joey@kodama:~/src/joeywiki/.ikiwiki>perl -le 'use Storable; my $userinfo=Storable::retrieve("userdb"); print $userinfo->{$_}->{email} foreach keys %$userinfo' - - joey@kitenet.net - -> Editing is simply a matter of changing values and calling Storable::store(). -> I've not written actual utilities to do this yet because I've only needed -> to do it rarely, and the data I've wanted has been different each time. -> --[[Joey]] - ->> Thanks for these examples -- I have been using them. I don't know the ->> Storable yet. Can someone share an example of removing a user? (I now ->> setup account\_creation\_password and I have some spammer with different ->> login names that I have banned that I might as well remove from the ->> userdb.) - ->>> Let's see, you could do something like this: ->>> perl -le 'use Storable; my $userinfo=Storable::retrieve("userdb"); delete $$userinfo{"joey"}; Storable::lock_store($userinfo, "userdb")' ->>> I suppose I should stop being lame and create a command line tool wrapping up these operations.. --[[Joey]] - ----- - # Spaces in WikiLinks? Hello Joey, diff --git a/doc/tips/inside_dot_ikiwiki.mdwn b/doc/tips/inside_dot_ikiwiki.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..69083a9a5 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/tips/inside_dot_ikiwiki.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,65 @@ +[[meta title="inside .ikiwiki"]] + +The `.ikiwiki` directory contains ikiwiki's internal state. Normally, +you don't need to look in it, but here's some tips for how to do so if +you need/want to. + +## the index + +`.ikiwiki/indexdb` contains a cache of information about pages, as well +as all persisitant state about pages. It used to be a (semi) human-readable +text file, but is not anymore. + +To dump the contents of the file, enter a perl command like this. + + joey@kodama:~/src/joeywiki/.ikiwiki> perl -le 'use Storable; my $index=Storable::retrieve("indexdb"); use Data::Dumper; print Dumper $index' | head + $VAR1 = { + 'index' => { + 'ctime' => 1199739528, + 'dest' => [ + 'index.html' + ], + 'mtime' => 1199739528, + 'src' => 'index.mdwn', + 'links' => [ + 'index/discussion', + +## the user database + +`.ikiwiki/userdb` is the user database, which records preferences of all +web users. + +To list all users in the database, enter a perl command like this. +Note that the output can include both registered users, and known +openids. + + joey@kodama:~/src/joeywiki/.ikiwiki> perl -le 'use Storable; my $userinfo=Storable::retrieve("userdb"); print $_ foreach keys %$userinfo' + http://joey.kitenet.net/ + foo + +To list each user's email address: + + joey@kodama:~/src/joeywiki/.ikiwiki> perl -le 'use Storable; my $userinfo=Storable::retrieve("userdb"); print $userinfo->{$_}->{email} foreach keys %$userinfo' + + joey@kitenet.net + +To dump the entire database contents: + + joey@kodama:~/src/joeywiki/.ikiwiki> perl -le 'use Storable; my $userinfo=Storable::retrieve("userdb"); use Data::Dumper; print Dumper $userinfo' + $VAR1 = { + 'http://joey.kitenet.net/' => { + 'email' => 'joey@kitenet.net', + [...] + +Editing values is simply a matter of changing values and calling Storable::nstore(). +So to change a user's password: + + joey@kodama:~/src/joeywiki/.ikiwiki> perl -le 'use Storable; my $userinfo=Storable::retrieve("userdb"); $userinfo->{"foo"}->{email}=q{foo@bar}; Storable::lock_nstore($userinfo, "underdb")' + +To remove that user: + + joey@kodama:~/src/joeywiki/.ikiwiki> perl -le 'use Storable; my $userinfo=Storable::retrieve("userdb"); delete $userinfo->{"foo"}; Storable::lock_nstore($userinfo, "underdb")' + +I've not written actual utilities to do this yet because I've only needed +to do it rarely, and the data I've wanted has been different each time. +--[[Joey]] |