[dokuwiki] Re: new plugin combining and generalizing the graphviz and gnuplot plugins

Jason Grout wrote:


My questions are:
* Is there a way to have user-editable configuration variables that are arrays? (I think the answer to this is no. If the answer is yes, then that takes care of the next question too.) I'd like the administrator to be able to specify any number of external programs, each with their own parameters for each different mode with which a page is rendered.
Not at present. The configuration setting side of the config plugin is extendable. Each setting type is managed by a php class. That class acts as an interface between the information displayed on the screen in the config plugin and the information that is written to the settings file. Plugins can provide classes to manage new settings types required by their own config settings. 

So yes, if you roll your own :)
* Is there a way to have the user enter a number of parameters an unspecified number of times? I'd like the user to be able to specify as many external tools as they want, with all the configuration settings for each external tool.
See above. You can also provide your plugin with an admin plugin component. That would give the plugin a menu item on the admin menu and the ability to display what ever you want on the page and handle the returned values any way you wanted.
* How exactly do I contribute this plugin to the dokuwiki project? I presume that I edit the wiki:plugins page to list this plugin and then create another page for the plugin. Is there a template that I can use to create the new page?
Yes. No template, other than copying someone else's page and replacing the plugin specific information with your own.
* Anyone have any suggestions? (This is my first plugin, and really more of a rewrite of the graphviz plugin than anything else.) 

-Jason




Cheers,

Chris
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