DokuWiki Code Hacking

As you can see, I am using DokuWiki. It is a fabulous tool in the sense that everything is in a file, and no dependence on MySQL et al.

But it is quite big now and no big code is easy to learn — which means I have to spend time to understand it! So my journey starts here.

Copied from http://wiki.splitbrain.org/wiki:devel:dirlayout

• dokuwiki – DokuWiki root directory - maybe you named it differently
  • _darcs – darcs metadata, you have this only if you’re using a darcs checkout
  • _test – contains the Unit Test Suite
  • conf – Configuration data is stored here
  • data – All data that is written by DokuWiki is stored here, the changelog is placed here, too
    • attic – old page revisions are stored here, it contains namespace directories
    • cache – DokuWiki creates cachefiles to speed things up - cachefiles have md5 filenames and are stored inside 16 directories here, sorted by their first letter (0-f)
    • locks – This directory is used to create temporary locks (not pagelocks)
    • media – here are all image files stored, it contains namespace directories
    • meta – not used yet but will store meta data for pages, it contains namespace directories
    • pages – here are the raw pages stored, it contains namespace directories
  • inc – contains PHP libs – the core of DokuWiki
    • auth – authentication backends
    • geshi – The GeShi syntax highlighting language definitions
    • lang – DokuWiki’s translation files
    • magpie – The magpie RSS parser
    • parser – DokuWiki’s wiki:parser system
  • lib – Files that get called externally (from your browser)
    • exe – externally access PHP files (for AJAX)
    • images – Images files
      • interwiki – wiki:interwiki icons
      • smileys – wiki:smiley icons
      • toolbar – quickbutton icons
    • plugins – Plugins are stored here
      • acl – The ACL plugin
      • info – The Info plugin
      • config – The Configuration Settings plugin
      • plugin – The Plugin Manager
      • user – The User Manager
    • scripts – Javascript files
    • styles – CSS style files
    • tpl – Templates
      • default – The default template