# Blosxom Plugin: theme # Author(s): Rael Dornfest # Version: 2003-08-26 # Documentation: See the bottom of this file or type: perldoc theme package theme; # --- Configurable variables ----- # Where do your themes live? my $theme_dir = "$blosxom::datadir/themes"; # What's the URL of your themes directory? # This is vital for those themes that employ images, stylesheets, or other # external content pulled in from outside the page itself. $theme_dir_url = "$blosxom::url/themes"; # Should I fall back to the blosxom template system, looking in $datadir # and paths beyond for template components? # 0 = no; 1 = yes (default) my $fallback_to_templates = 1; # -------------------------------- use FileHandle; my $fh = new FileHandle; my $cache = {}; sub start { return -r $theme_dir ? 1 : 0; } sub template { return sub { my ($path, $chunk, $flavour) = @_; $path =~ s!^/*!!; $path = "/$path"; # Return cached chunk, if available $cache->{$flavour}->{$chunk} and return $cache->{$flavour}->{$chunk}; # Glean, spindle, and cache the theme if (!keys %{$cache->{$flavour}} and $fh->open("$theme_dir/$flavour/page")) { my $in_chunk = ''; while (my $line = <$fh>) { $line =~ //; $1 and $2 and $cache->{$flavour}->{$1} = $2 and next; $1 and $in_chunk = $1 and next; $cache->{$flavour}->{$in_chunk} .= $line; } # Return the requested chunk $cache->{$flavour}->{$chunk} and return $cache->{$flavour}->{$chunk}; } # Fall back to standard blosxom templating (if $fallback_to_templates) $fallback_to_templates and do { $blosxom::others{"$blosxom::datadir$path/$chunk.$flavour"} and $fh->open("< $blosxom::datadir$path/$chunk.$flavour") and return join '', <$fh>; } while ($path =~ s/(\/*[^\/]*)$// and $1); # Finally, fall back to baked-in basic flavours return join '', ($blosxom::template{$flavour}{$chunk} || $blosxom::template{error}{$chunk} || ''); }; } 1; __END__ =head1 NAME Blosxom Plug-in: theme =head1 SYNOPSIS Build themes or use those built by others for your Blosxom-powered weblog. Themes consist of a directory named for your theme (e.g. "yellowish") containing a single template file ("page") and any supporting images, stylesheets, javascript source, etc. A typical theme directory structure looks something like: $theme_dir /page /images /background.gif /logo.gif /javascript /util.js The only bit that's required is that "page" file. The "page" file should define a content type, head, date, story, and foot --just as with Blosxom's default flavour template system [http://blosxom.sourceforge.net/documentation/users/flavour.html], except all in a single file rather than individual flavour files. Components are deliniated using comments. Here's a sample (over-simplified) page definition: my blosxom blog

my blosxom blog

$dw, $da $mo $yr

$title
$body
permanent link

Everything after a comment (until the next one) is part of the component. Notice the only exception is the content_type component, the content type for the document being defined in the comment itself; this is to assure only a single line is used for content type. The theme plugin overrides Blosxom's default template() subroutine, falling back to Blosxom's default flavour template system if the requested theme is not available. It falls further back to Blosxom's baked in default HTML and RSS flavours if no theme or flavour templates are available for the requested theme/flavour. =head1 INSTALLATION Drop the theme plugin into your Blosxom plugins folder. =head1 CONFIGURATION The plugin is preconfigured to assume a themes directory beneath your Blosxom data directory ($datadir, as configured in the blosxom.cgi script). Alter the $theme_dir configurable variable to have your themes live elsewhere. e.g. # Where do your themes live? my $theme_dir = "/somewhere/else/themes"; Wherever it lives, your themes directory should be Web-accessible since themes may (and probably do) employ images, stylesheets, and other content pulled in from outside the page itself. e.g. # What's the URL of your themes directory? my $theme_dir_url = "http://example.com/somewhere/else/themes"; By default, the theme plugin falls back to Blosxom's built-in flavour template system [http://blosxom.sourceforge.net/documentation/users/flavour.html]. You can turn this off by setting the $fallback_to_templates variable to 0. e.g. # Should I fall back to the blosxom template system, looking in $datadir # and paths beyond for template components? # 0 = no; 1 = yes (default) my $fallback_to_templates = 0; =head1 VERSION 2003-08-26 =head1 AUTHOR Rael Dornfest , http://www.raelity.org/ =head1 SEE ALSO Blosxom Home/Docs/Licensing: http://blosxom.sourceforge.net/ Blosxom Plugin User Documentation: http://blosxom.sourceforge.net/documentation/users/plugins.html Blosxom Plugin Developer Documentation: http://blosxom.sourceforge.net/documentation/developers/plugins.html =head1 BUGS Address bug reports and comments to the Blosxom mailing list [http://www.yahoogroups.com/group/blosxom]. =head1 LICENSE Blosxom and this Blosxom Plug-in Copyright 2003, Rael Dornfest Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.