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SimpleRecipeTemplate

Questions answered by this recipe

How do I write a PmWiki recipe? Is there a blueprint I can use? Are there any recipe examples?

Description

This recipe provides a simple recipe template that illustrates and implements some PmWiki recipe concepts.

The recipe provides a multiline directive with parameters that implements a printable and hexadecimal character display of all text within the directive. The form of such a directive is

It also provides a singleline directive that implements a display of some internal PmWiki variables. The form of such a directive is

PmWiki Developers

 This recipe illustrates some simple features of PmWiki recipes.

• \Markup (): markup, illustrating (:directive parm=value:) text (:directiveend:)
• \ParseArgs (): PmWiki function to create key value array from directive parameters
• \Keep (): PmWiki function to return HTML rather than wiki markup for page
• \SDV (): override default values from a configuration file
• $MessageFmt: log messages to the default PmWiki logging mechanism and displayed by the (:messages:) directive
• $HTMLStylesFmt: insert CSS for the recipe into the page
• $HTMLHeaderFmt: insert into HTML metadata element
• dmsg: local function providing a way to debug a recipe
• $RecipeInfo: publish recipe version for PmWiki Site Analyzer and Recipe Check
• $FmtPV: create a page text variable enabling version display on a page

The recipe uses the following PHP features:

• Type hints
• Strict typing mode for argument and return values This assists with determining that the code behaves as expected
• Namespaces This assists with avoiding name collisions

Installation

• download simplerecipetemplate-2022-06-11.phpΔ
• copy to the /cookbook/ directory as simplerecipetemplate.php
• add to config.php the line
  include_once($FarmD/cookbook/simplerecipetemplate.php);

Usage

Place the directive, as described below, in your PmWiki page.

The recipe provides a page variable {$SimpleRecipeVersion} which contains the current version, and page variable {$SimpleRecipe} for a (:if enabled SimpleRecipe:) recipe installation check.

SimpleRecipe output

Configuration

(:simplerecipe len=# :) arbitrary text (:simplerecipeend:)

• len= -- number of characters to display per line, defaults to 16

Parameters are case-insensitive.

VerySimpleRecipe output (truncated)

A second example is (:verysimplerecipe:) If no parameters are supplied this directive will display the directives it accepts. You can use this recipe to display some internal PmWiki arrays. These include:

• $RecipeInfo
• $Conditions
• $CustomSyntax
• $FmtPV, $FmtV
• $HandleActions, $HandleAuth
• $MarkupExpr
• $HTMLStylesFmt, $HTMLHeaderFmt, $HTMLFooterFmt
• PHPinfo (requires admin login)
• $_SERVER (requires admin login)
• $UploadExts, $UploadExtSize, $UploadBlacklist
• $WikiStyle
• a number of internal PmWiki variables including: $Author, $AuthorGroup, $CategoryGroup, $CookiePrefix, $DefaultGroup, $DefaultName, $DefaultPage, $GroupFooterFmt, $GroupHeaderFmt, $HandleImageTplFmt, $Skin, $SiteAdminGroup, $SiteGroup, $UploadDir, $UploadDirQuota, $UploadMaxSize, $UploadPrefixFmt, $UploadPrefixQuota, $UploadUrlFmt, $Version

config.php settings

You can change the following in config.php. For example

Change log / Release notes

See also

• PHP Standards Recommendations
• Userland Naming Guide
• SimpleRecipe home
• test SimpleRecipe

On PmWiki

From the PmWiki developer category:

• Complex Recipes Guidelines for people who want to share complex cookbook recipes with other PmWiki user
• Module Guidelines Guidelines for creating, distributing, and maintaining a recipe for the Cookbook.
• Debugging For Cookbook Authors Share tips and tricks with other authors about PmWiki specific debugging

Contributors

Special thanks to Petko and the PmWiki documenters.

Comments

See discussion at SimpleRecipeTemplate-Talk?