Each plugin needs to provide some basic information about itself. This is done through a file called plugin.info.txt located in the plugin directory.
Here's an example how such a file should look like.
base example author My Full Name email me@example.com date 2010-01-17 name Example Plugin to do Stuff desc This is just an Example of how a plugin description looks like url http://www.dokuwiki.org/plugin:example
| Parameter | Description |
|---|---|
| base | The technical name of the plugin. Plugin Manager will install it into this directory. |
| author | The full name of the Plugin author |
| E-Mail to contact the plugin author about this plugin | |
| date | The date of the last update of this plugin in YYYY-MM-DD form. Don't forget to update this when you update your plugin! |
| name | The human readable name of the plugin |
| desc | A description of what the plugin does |
| url | URL to where more info about the plugin is available |
Note: the plugin.info.txt replaces the old getInfo() call in your plugin components for DokuWiki 2009-12-25 “Lemming” and later. getInfo() is now implemented in the base class and will read all info from this file. It no longer needs to be implemented in your sub classes.