[Phpwiki-talk] Is there a PhpWiki plugin writing guide?

[Whit B. <wh...@tr...>]

Hi,

Are there instructions somewhere about how PhpWiki plugins work, or style
guidelines for them, or ...? I'm looking for something at a level that
assumes the reader knows PHP fairly well, but is new to PhpWiki and not too
familiar with plugin architectures, let alone how PhpWiki instantiates one.

What I want to be able to do is add an option where a page can include a
subclass of its "children" in the page output, so that a class of links from
a page to new pages which are intended as comments on it can afford an
option of displaying those comments (other pages) integrated into the page -
or not. Combine that with the new login and permissions scheme, and it might
make for a useful addition to range of ways it can be used for collaboration
on works-in-progress.

This is something I'd like to be able to demo before April, so it looks like
the best strategy to learn to build it as a plugin for the development
version, rather than take an arbitrary timeslice of it and make a bunch of
ugly hacks to get the desired behavior. But I haven't found where the
PhpWiki plugin interface and design goals are spelled out yet.

Thanks,
Whit