SID-00215: Publish::initPlugin is not defined - PublishContrib Issue

Status:	Answered	TWiki version:	4.1.1	Perl version:	5.8.8
Category:	PublishContrib	Server OS:	LINUX 2.6.18-8	Last update:	16 years ago

I'm trying to use the PublishContrib plugin to create a static view (HTML files) of our TWiki.

Per TWiki.pm the version and release we are on is:

$VERSION = '$Date: 2007/02/13 15:30:43 $ $Rev: 12770 $ ';
$RELEASE = 'TWiki-4.1.1';

When I hit the /twiki/bin/view/TWiki/InstalledPlugins page I get the following error:

"Plugins: could not fully register Publish, no plugin topic TWiki::Plugins::Publish::initPlugin is not defined"

I see that various other plugins that have been installed on our system have this function defined but not Publish.pm.

What's going on here?

Neither Google or the Q&A search here yielded anything obvious. I might add that I've never administered a TWiki environment before attempting to add this plugin. More to the point I could very well be lacking "tribal knowledge" that is par for the course once someone has a bit of experience with TWiki.

-- MarioPacheco - 24 Mar 2009

Discussion and Answer

Contribs and Plugins are not the same. Plugins live in the twiki/lib/TWiki/Plugins directory. A FooBarPlugin for example needs to have a twiki/lib/TWiki/Plugins/FooBarPlugin.pm module that contains an initPlugin function, and twiki/data/TWiki/FooBarPlugin.txt topic. Contribs are not that strict. Not sure why the author of the PublishContrib chose to mix contrib and plugin spec.

I suggest looking into the PublishWebPlugin. As an example, content of http://www.twiki.net/ fully maintained in the intranet TWiki using this plugin to push content to the website with a custom publish skin.

-- PeterThoeny - 24 Mar 2009

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-- PeterThoeny - 2009-05-02

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