Empty TWiki Plugin

Introduction

This is an empty plugin. Use it as a template to build your own TWikiPlugins. This plugin does nothing, but is ready to be extended and used.

To create your own plugin:

• Copy file lib/TWiki/Plugins/EmptyPlugin.pm to <name>Plugin.pm and customize the plugin. Add your own code; remove all handlers you do not plan to use.
• Create a <name>Plugin documentation topic in the TWiki05x01 web. Do so by visiting http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Plugins/PluginPackageHowTo and starting a new topic to get the default plugin topic text (don't save the topic on twiki.org yet). Customize your plugin topic to your needs.
• Please consider contributing your plugin back to the TWiki community by publishing it in the Plugins web on twiki.org.
• See details in TWikiPlugins.

Syntax Rules

%EXAMPLEVAR{"..."}%

Examples

• %EXAMPLEVAR{}% expands to: %EXAMPLEVAR{}%

Plugin Installation Instructions

Note: You do not need to install anything on the browser to use this plugin. The following instructions are for the administrator who installs the plugin on the TWiki server.

• For an automated installation, run the configure script and follow "Find More Extensions" in the in the Extensions section.

• Or, follow these manual installation steps:
  • Download the ZIP file from the Plugins home (see below).
  • Unzip EmptyPlugin.zip in your twiki installation directory. Content:

    File:	Description:
    data/TWiki/EmptyPlugin.txt	Plugin topic
    data/TWiki/VarEXAMPLEVAR.txt	Variable documentation topic
    lib/TWiki/Plugins/EmptyPlugin.pm	Plugin Perl module
    lib/TWiki/Plugins/EmptyPlugin/Config.spec	Plugin Config spec

  • Set the ownership of the extracted directories and files to the webserver user.
  • Install the dependencies (if any).

• Plugin configuration and testing:
  • Run the configure script and enable the plugin in the Plugins section
  • Configure additional plugin settings in the Extensions section if needed.
  • Test if the installation was successful: See example above.

Plugin Info

• One line description, is shown in the TextFormattingRules topic:
  • Set SHORTDESCRIPTION = Empty Plugin used as a template for new plugins

Related Topics: VarEXAMPLEVAR, TWikiPlugins, TWikiFuncDotPm, DeveloperDocumentationCategory, AdminDocumentationCategory, TWikiPreferences