template: Search for templates in the templatedir, if they are not found as pages...

diff --git a/IkiWiki/Plugin/template.pm b/IkiWiki/Plugin/template.pm
index 3e024c5f81b11db1c7791fe8ef214d06f186cb09..36282055a5274987747026b284609e45f793208c 100644 (file)
--- a/IkiWiki/Plugin/template.pm
+++ b/IkiWiki/Plugin/template.pm
@@ -37,7 +37,13 @@ sub preprocess (@) {
        my $template_page="templates/$params{id}";
        add_depends($params{page}, $template_page);
 
-       my $template_file=$pagesources{$template_page};
+       my $template_file;
+       if (exists $pagesources{$template_page}) {
+               $template_file=srcfile($pagesources{$template_page});
+       }
+       else {
+               $template_file=template_file("$params{id}.tmpl")
+       }
        return sprintf(gettext("template %s not found"),
                htmllink($params{page}, $params{destpage}, "/".$template_page))
                        unless defined $template_file;
@@ -50,7 +56,7 @@ sub preprocess (@) {
                                $$text_ref=&Encode::decode_utf8($$text_ref);
                                chomp $$text_ref;
                        },
-                       filename => srcfile($template_file),
+                       filename => $template_file,
                                die_on_bad_params => 0,
                        no_includes => 1,
                        blind_cache => 1,

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index adf0dfed6133f028937a55103f3cfadac6108654..362ba54ab6adeb57e103a10f7589ee4a288542d3 100644 (file)
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -26,6 +26,8 @@ ikiwiki (3.20100324) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
   * page.tmpl: Add Cache-Control must-revalidate to ensure that users
     (especially of Firefox) see fresh page content.
   * htmlscrubber: Allow colons in urls after '?'
+  * template: Search for templates in the templatedir, if they are not
+    found as pages in the wiki.
 
  -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat, 13 Mar 2010 14:48:10 -0500
 

diff --git a/doc/templates.mdwn b/doc/templates.mdwn
index eff0e15e93d5930821677833ce4de8619658fb44..07531ae98811442280467ee61e47822b6c3354c0 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/templates.mdwn
+++ b/doc/templates.mdwn
@@ -43,6 +43,12 @@ page will provide a link that can be used to create the template. The template
 is a regular wiki page, located in the `templates/` subdirectory inside
 the source directory of the wiki.
 
+(Alternatively, templates can be stored in a directory outside the wiki,
+as files with the extension ".tmpl".
+By default, these are searched for in `/usr/share/ikiwiki/templates`;
+the `templatedir` setting can be used to make another directory be searched
+first.)
+
 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

diff --git a/doc/todo/user-defined_templates_outside_the_wiki.mdwn b/doc/todo/user-defined_templates_outside_the_wiki.mdwn
index 880ad64938c6861be4d6d04734ee44def7e9780e..1d72aa6a7e270fe4577c10a6d0494eae5c4b014d 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/todo/user-defined_templates_outside_the_wiki.mdwn
+++ b/doc/todo/user-defined_templates_outside_the_wiki.mdwn
@@ -6,3 +6,5 @@ source, but also looks in the system templates directory (the one with
 invoked via `\[[!template]]`, but don't have to "work" as wiki pages in their
 own right. I think the normal [[plugins/template]] plugin could benefit from
 this functionality.
+
+[[done]] --[[Joey]] 

diff --git a/doc/wikitemplates.mdwn b/doc/wikitemplates.mdwn
index 6c0480cea0630d2183efea5435d81204f8bd0cc1..6e5a7261daaf2d6ef7cd1be919e1e315232d9674 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/wikitemplates.mdwn
+++ b/doc/wikitemplates.mdwn
@@ -5,7 +5,8 @@ to learn.
 The aim is to keep almost all html out of ikiwiki and in the templates.
 
 It ships with some basic templates which can be customised. These are
-located in /usr/share/ikiwiki/templates by default.
+located in `/usr/share/ikiwiki/templates` by default; the `templatedir`
+setting can be used to make another directory be searched first.
 
 * `page.tmpl` - Used for displaying all regular wiki pages.
 * `misc.tmpl` - Generic template used for any page that doesn't
@@ -43,7 +44,8 @@ The [[plugins/pagetemplate]] plugin can allow individual pages to use a
 different template than `page.tmpl`.
 
 The [[plugins/template]] plugin also uses templates, though those
-[[templates]] are stored in the wiki and inserted into pages.
+[[templates]] are typically stored as pages in the wiki, and are inserted
+into pages.
 
 The [[plugins/edittemplate]] plugin is used to make new pages default to
 containing text from a template, which can be filled as out the page is