Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 09:53:18 +0200
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PhpWiki lets you extend it with new functionality via a plugin
mechanism. In short, you extend a PHP class we provide and customize
it to print out the content you want. For more information see
WikiPlugin, HelloWorldPlugin, and view the source of the files in
<tt>lib/plugin</tt>.

If there is no example page for the plugin, or you need more
information, the best place to go is the source of the plugin. Under
your wiki's root directory, the folder <tt>lib/plugin</tt> contains all the PHP
files for the plugins.

! External Requirements
Some plugins require correctly configured PLUGIN_CACHED and external libraries 
not provided with PhpWiki or PHP, such as 
* [PHP with GD support | php-function:ref.image] for the text2png plugin, 
* [LaTeX2HTML | ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/support/latex2html ] for the TexToPngPlugin and TeX2pngPlugin,
* [graphviz | http://graphviz.org/] for the GraphVizPlugin and VisualWikiPlugin, 
* [ploticus | http://ploticus.sourceforge.net/] for the PloticusPlugin, 
* [phpweather | http://phpweather.sf.net] for the PhpWeatherPlugin,
* [highlight | http://www.andre-simon.de/] for the SyntaxHighlighterPlugin,
* a browser with [<iframe> support|http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/html/iframe.html] for the TranscludePlugin,
* USE_DB_SESSION = true (default for the peardb, adodb or dba backends) for the WhoIsOnline plugin,
* --with-xml support (with expat or libxml2) for the ~RssFeed plugin (ProjectSummary, RecentReleases) and 
  HtmlParser support (ImportHtml, HtmlAreaEditing),
* PHP Mail functionality (php.ini: SMTP + sendmail_from on Windows or sendmail_path) for email 
  PageChangeNotifications and ModeratedPage's,
* a [Google license key | http://www.google.com/apis/] for the GooglePlugin, 
* optionally an external recommender engine (none yet, php only so far) and the wikilens theme for the RateIt plugin,
* optionally apache/mod_log_{my}sql for fast, external log analysis if ACCESS_LOG_SQL=1 (Referer, Abuse Prevention).
  See <tt>lib/Request.php</tt> and http://www.outoforder.cc/projects/apache/mod_log_sql/

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PhpWikiDocumentation WikiPlugin