Available Actions
Table of contents
Page actions are applied to wiki pages, as a query string appended to the URL. Security can be applied to all default actions, and script actions with one exception, but not diag actions, through the use of passwords.
Default Actions
- ?action=attr
- displays dialog for setting/changing password of the specified page or group of pages, see passwords, see also
$EnablePostAttrClearSession
if you do not want to have the session cleared after validating change General use of passwords
- ?action=browse
- display the specified page (default action if no
?action=
is present)
- ?action=crypt
- displays a form for generating hashed passwords out of clear text for usage in your config.php
- ?action=diff
- show a change history of the specified page, see page history History of previous edits to a page
- ?action=download&upname=file.ext
- retrieve the page's attachment named file.ext, see
$EnableDirectDownload
- ?action=edit
- edit the specified page, see basic editing PmWiki's basic edit syntax
- ?action=login
- prompt visitor for username/password, by default using Site.AuthForm
- ?action=logout
- remove author, password, and login information
- ?action=print
- display the specified page using the skin specified by
$ActionSkin
['print']
- ?action=refcount
- bring up the reference count form, which allows the user to generate a list of links (all, missing, existing or orphaned) in or from specified groups. See Ref Count Link references counts on pages . Part of the core distribution but must be enabled by the administrator.
- ?action=search
- displays searchbox on current page, see search Targeting and customising search results
- ?action=search&q=searchterm
- performs search with searchterm and displays results on current page
- ?action=source
- show page source
- ?action=atom
- ?action=rdf
- ?action=rss
- ?action=dc
- If web feeds are enabled, returns a syndication feed based on the contents of the page or other options provided by the url, see web feeds Web feed notification of changes
- ?setprefs=SomeGroup.CustomPreferences
- sets cookie to custom preferences page. See site preferences Customisable browser setting preferences: Access keys, edit form
- ?action=upload
- display a form to upload an attachment for the current group, see uploads
Actions enabled by $EnableDiag
The following actions are available only if you set
in your configuration file. They can be used for debugging and should not be set in a production environment.
$EnableDiag
= 1;
- ?action=ruleset
- displays a list of all markups in 3 columns:
- column 1 = markup-name (1. parameter of markup() )
- column 2 = when will rule apply (2. parameter of markup() )
- column 3 = PmWiki's internal sort key (derived from #2)
(see Custom Markup Using the Markup() function for custom wiki syntax ).
To see more than what
?action=ruleset
gives you, apply the Cookbook:MarkupRulesetDebugging recipe: it can also show the pattern and the replacement strings.
- doesn't make use of PmWiki's authorization mechanisms.
- ?action=phpinfo
- displays the output of phpinfo() and exits. no page will be processed
- doesn't make use of PmWiki's authorization mechanisms.
- ?action=diag
- displays a dump of all global vars and exits. no page will be processed
- doesn't make use of PmWiki's authorization mechanisms.
Actions enabled by PmWiki Scripts
- ?action=analyze
- see Site Analyzer and Analyze Results
- ?action=approvesites
- see Url approvals Require approval of Url links
- doesn't make use of PmWiki's authorization mechanisms.
Actions enabled by Cookbook recipes
(more information about Custom Actions)
- ?action=admin
- see Cookbook:UserAuth2
- ?action=backup
- see Cookbook:BackupPages
- ?action=clearsky
- see Cookbook:SearchCloud
- ?action=comment
- see Cookbook:CommentBox
- ?action=comments
- see Cookbook:Comments
- ?action=comment-rss
- see Cookbook:CommentDb
- ?action=convert
- see Cookbook:ROEPatterns
- ?action=converttable
- Cookbook:ConvertTable
- ?action=copy
- see Cookbook:MovePage
- ?action=downloaddeleted
- ?action=delattach
- ?action=undelattach
- Cookbook:Attachtable
- ?action=delete
- see Cookbook:DeleteAction
- ?action=discuss
- see Cookbook:DiscussionTab
- ?action=downloadman
- see Cookbook:DownloadManager
- ?action=expirediff
- see Cookbook:ExpireDiff
- ?action=import
- see Cookbook:ImportText
- ?action=move
- see Cookbook:MovePage
- ?action=PageUrl
- see Cookbook:CommentBoxPlus
- ?action=pageindex
- see Cookbook:ListCategories
- ?action=pdf
- see Cookbook:GeneratePDF or Cookbook:PmWiki2PDF
- ?action=publish
- see Cookbook:PublishPDF
- ?action=purgeqns
- see Cookbook:ASCIIMath
- ?action=pwchange
- see Cookbook:UserAuth2
- ?action=imgtpl
- (the imgtpl action is called automatically and should not be called by a link in a wiki page)
- ?action=createthumb
- (the createthumb action is called automatically and should not be called by a link in a wiki page)
- ?action=mini
- (this action is called automatically and should not be called by a link in a wiki page)
- ?action=purgethumbs
- see Cookbook:ThumbList
see Cookbook:Mini - ?action=recipecheck
- see Cookbook:RecipeCheck
- ?action=regen
- see Cookbook:PageRegenerate
- ?action=rename
- ?action=links
- see Cookbook:RenamePage
- ?action=share
- ?action=unshare
- see Cookbook:SharedPages
- ?action=sitemapaddgroups
- ?action=sitemapupdate
- see Cookbook:Sitemapper
- ?action=totalcounter
- see Cookbook:TotalCounter
- ?action=trash
- ?action=untrash
- see Cookbook:Trash
- ?action=webadmin
- see Cookbook:WebAdmin
- ?action=zap
- see Cookbook:ZAP
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