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CGI::Kwiki - A Quickie Wiki that's not too Tricky
> mkdir cgi-bin/my-kwiki
> cd cgi-bin/my-kwiki
> kwiki-install
Kwiki software installed! Point your browser at this location.
The Offficial Kwiki Home is at http://www.kwiki.org. This site is a Kwiki itself. It contains much more information about Kwiki than the distributed docs.
A Wiki is a website that allows its users to add pages, and edit any existing pages. It is one of the most popular forms of web collaboration. If you are new to wiki, visit http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WelcomeVisitors which is possibly the oldest wiki, and has lots of information about how wikis work.
There are dozens of wiki implementations in the world, and many of those are written in Perl. As is common with many Perl hacks, they are rarely modular, and almost never released on CPAN. One major exception is CGI::Wiki. This is a wiki framework that is extensible and is actively maintained.
Another exception is this module, CGI::Kwiki. CGI::Kwiki focuses on simplicity and extensibility. You can create a new kwiki website with a single command. The module has no prerequisite modules, except the ones that ship with Perl. It doesn't require a database backend, although it could be made to use one. The default kwiki behaviour is fairly full featured, and includes support for html tables. Any behaviour of the kwiki can be customized, without much trouble.
CGI::Kwiki will come with some fancy addons not found in most wiki implementations. This comes with the promise that they will not interfere with the sheer simplicity of the default kwiki interface.
Check http://http://www.kwiki.org/index.cgi?KwikiFeatures from time to time to see what hot features have been added.
You can create an entire PowerPoint-like slideshow, in a single kwiki page. There is Javascript magic for advancing slides, etc. See the sample page KwikiSlideShow.
CGI::Kwiki is completely Object Oriented. You can easily override every last behaviour by subclassing one of its class modules and overriding one or more methods. This is generally accomplished in just a few lines of Perl.
The best way to describe this is with an example. Start with the config
file. The default config file is called config.yaml. It contains a
set of lines like this:
config_class: CGI::Kwiki::Config
driver_class: CGI::Kwiki::Driver
cgi_class: CGI::Kwiki::CGI
cookie_class: CGI::Kwiki::Cookie
database_class: CGI::Kwiki::Database
metadata_class: CGI::Kwiki::Metadata
display_class: CGI::Kwiki::Display
edit_class: CGI::Kwiki::Edit
formatter_class: CGI::Kwiki::Formatter
template_class: CGI::Kwiki::Template
search_class: CGI::Kwiki::Search
changes_class: CGI::Kwiki::Changes
prefs_class: CGI::Kwiki::Prefs
pages_class: CGI::Kwiki::Pages
slides_class: CGI::Kwiki::Slides
javascript_class: CGI::Kwiki::Javascript
style_class: CGI::Kwiki::Style
scripts_class: CGI::Kwiki::Scripts
This is a list of all the classes that make up the kwiki. You can change anyone of them to be a class of your own.
Let's say that you wanted to change the BOLD format indicator from
*bold* to '''bold'''. You just need to override the bold()
method of the Formatter class. Start by changing config.yaml.
formatter_class: MyKwikiFormatter
Then write a module called MyKwikiFormatter.pm. You can put this
module right in your kwiki installation directory if you want. The
module might look like this:
package MyKwikiFormatter;
use base 'CGI::Kwiki::Formatter';
sub bold {
my ($self, $text) = @_;
$text =~ s!'''(.*?)'''!<b>$1</b>!g;
return $text;
}
1;
Not too hard, eh? You can change all aspects of CGI::Kwiki like this, from the database storage to the search engine, to the main driver code. If you come up with a set of classes that you want to share with the world, just package them up as a distribution and put them on CPAN.
By the way, you can even change the configuration file format from the
YAML default. If you wanted to use say, XML, just call the file
config.xml and write a module called CGI::Kwiki::Config_xml.
All of the rest of the documentation for CGI::Kwiki is available within your own Kwiki installation. Just install a Kwiki and follow the links! If you're having trouble or just want to see a Kwiki in action, visit http://www.kwiki.org first.
Brian Ingerson <INGY@cpan.org>
Copyright (c) 2003. Brian Ingerson. All rights reserved.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
See http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html
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package CGI::Kwiki; $VERSION = '0.18'; @EXPORT = qw(attribute); @CHAR_CLASSES = qw($ADMIN $UPPER $LOWER $ALPHANUM $WORD $WIKIWORD); @EXPORT_OK = (@CHAR_CLASSES, qw(encode decode escape unescape)); %EXPORT_TAGS = (char_classes => [@CHAR_CLASSES]); use strict; use base 'Exporter'; use CGI qw(-no_debug); use vars qw($ADMIN); $ADMIN ||= 0; use vars qw($UPPER $LOWER $ALPHANUM $WORD $WIKIWORD); if ($] < 5.008) { $UPPER = "A-Z\xc0-\xde"; $LOWER = "a-z\xdf-\xff"; $ALPHANUM = "A-Za-z0-9\xc0-\xff"; $WORD = "A-Za-z0-9\xc0-\xff_"; $WIKIWORD = $WORD; } else { $UPPER = '\p{UppercaseLetter}'; $LOWER = '\p{LowercaseLetter}'; $ALPHANUM = '\p{Letter}\p{Number}'; $WORD = '\p{Letter}\p{Number}\p{ConnectorPunctuation}'; $WIKIWORD = "$UPPER$LOWER\\p{Number}\\p{ConnectorPunctuation}"; } # All classes defined by CGI::Kwiki sub classes { qw( new config config_yaml driver cgi cookie database metadata backup display edit formatter template plugin search changes prefs pages slides javascript style scripts blog i18n import ) } # Traditional CGI runner sub run_cgi { eval "use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser)"; die $@ if $@; my $cgi_class = (eval { require CGI::Fast; 1 } ? 'CGI::Fast' : 'CGI'); while (my $cgi = $cgi_class->new) { my $driver = load_driver(); $CGI::Kwiki::user_name = $ENV{REMOTE_USER} || CGI->remote_host(); my $html = $driver->drive; if (ref $html) { print CGI::redirect($html->{redirect}); } else { my $header = $driver->cookie->header; $driver->encode($header); $driver->encode($html); print $header, $html; } last if $cgi_class eq 'CGI'; } } # Speedy mod_perl runner sub handler { my ($r) = @_; my $base_directory = $r->location; chdir($base_directory) or die "Can't chdir to '$base_directory'\n"; eval "use Apache::Constants qw(OK REDIRECT)"; die $@ if $@; my $driver = load_driver(); $CGI::Kwiki::user_name = $ENV{REMOTE_USER} || $r->get_remote_host || $r->connection->remote_ip; my $html = $driver->drive; if (ref $html) { $r->method('GET'); $r->headers_in->unset('Content-length'); $r->header_out('Location' => $html->{redirect}); $r->status(&REDIRECT); $r->send_http_header; } else { $r->print($driver->cookie->header, $html); $r->status(&OK); } return; } # A generic class attribute set/get method generator sub attribute { my ($attribute) = @_; my $pkg = caller; no strict 'refs'; local $SIG{__WARN__} = sub {}; # shut up 'redefined' warnings *{"${pkg}::$attribute"} = sub { my $self = shift; return $self->{$attribute} unless @_; $self->{$attribute} = shift; return $self; }; } # The most basic attributes inherited by almost all classes attribute 'driver'; attribute 'config'; attribute 'cgi'; attribute 'plugin'; attribute 'template'; attribute 'formatter'; attribute 'database'; attribute 'metadata'; attribute 'backup'; attribute 'prefs'; attribute 'i18n'; # Constructor inherited by most classes sub new { my ($class, $driver) = @_; my $self = bless {}, $class; $self->driver($driver); $self->config($driver->config); $self->cgi($driver->cgi); $self->plugin($driver->plugin); $self->template($driver->template); $self->formatter($driver->formatter); $self->database($driver->database); $self->metadata($driver->metadata); $self->backup($driver->backup); $self->prefs($driver->prefs); return $self; } sub load_driver { require CGI::Kwiki::Config; my $config = CGI::Kwiki::Config->new; my $driver_class = $config->driver_class; eval qq{ require $driver_class }; die $@ if $@; my $driver = $driver_class->new($config); $config->driver($driver); return $driver; } # I run a development Kwiki in the mykwiki/ subdirectory of CGI-Kwiki's # development directory. I edit all the data files and templates in # there, and then I use this rebuild method to pack them into the DATA # sections of their respective modules. sub rebuild { my $filename = $0; my $module = $filename; $module =~ s/.*lib\/(?=CGI)//; $module =~ s/\.pm$//; $module =~ s/\//::/g; my $self = $module->new(load_driver); my $data = ''; my ($directory) = $self->directory; for my $file (sort glob("mykwiki/$directory/*")) { my $label = $file; $label =~ s/.*\///; $label =~ s/\.\w+$//; next if $label =~ /^%/; # XXX exclude Chinese pages $data .= "__${label}__\n"; open FILE, $file or die $!; $data .= do {local $/; <FILE>}; close FILE; } $data =~ s/^=/^=/gm; open MODULE, $filename or die $!; my $module_text = do {local $/;<MODULE>}; close MODULE; unless ($module_text =~ /^(.*__DATA__\n.*=cut\n\n)/s) { die "Can't parse $filename\n"; } $module_text = $1 . $data; open MODULE, "> $filename" or die "Can't open $filename of output:\n$!"; print MODULE $module_text; close MODULE; print "$filename updated\n"; exit 0; } # Support for unpacking the DATA files attached to many CGI::Kwiki classes sub create_files { my ($self) = @_; umask 0000; my $package = ref($self); my @files = split /^__([$WORD\/]+)__\n/m, $self->data; die $@ if $@; shift @files; my %files = @files; for my $file (keys %files) { my ($directory, $perms) = $self->directory($file); $perms ||= 0755; if (not -d $directory) { mkdir($directory, $perms); } $self->create_file( "$directory/" . $self->name($file) . $self->suffix($file), $self->render_template($files{$file}) ); } } sub create_file { my ($self, $file_path, $content) = @_; open FILE, "> $file_path" or die "Can't open $file_path for output:\n$!"; print FILE $content; close FILE; $self->perms($file_path); } sub directory { '.' } sub suffix { '' } sub name { $_[1] } sub render_template { $_[1] } sub perms {} sub data { my ($self) = @_; my $package = ref($self); local $/; my $data = eval "package $package; <DATA>"; die $@ if $@; return $data; } sub decode { my ($self) = @_; utf8::decode($_[1]) if $self->use_utf8 and defined $_[1]; return $_[1] if defined wantarray; } sub encode { my ($self) = @_; utf8::encode($_[1]) if $self->use_utf8 and defined $_[1]; return $_[1] if defined wantarray; } sub escape { my ($self, $data) = @_; $self->encode($data); return CGI::Util::escape($data); } sub unescape { my ($self, $data) = @_; $data = CGI::Util::unescape($data); $self->decode($data); return $data; } my $use_utf8; sub use_utf8 { my ($self) = @_; $use_utf8 = $_[1] if @_ > 1; return $use_utf8 if defined($use_utf8); return($use_utf8 = 0) if $] < 5.008; return 1 unless $self->config; return($use_utf8 = (lc($self->config->encoding) =~ /^utf-?8$/)); } sub loc { my ($self) = shift; my $i18n_class = $self->config->{i18n_class} or die; eval "use $i18n_class; 1" or return $_[0]; $i18n_class->initialize($self->use_utf8 || 0); return $i18n_class->loc(@_); } 1; __END__