Kwiki::Backlinks - Maintain and display a simple database of links to the current page
Kwiki::Backlinks uses the file system to keep track of which pages in a wiki link to which pages in the same wiki. That data is then used to display on every page in the wiki. This is considered a nice feature by some and an absolute requirement for enabling emergent understanding by others.
You can see Kwiki::Backlinks in action at http://www.burningchrome.com/wiki/
This code also happens to demonstrate a novel use of Spoon hooks.
The backlinks database may also be used as a generic database of linking activity in the wiki. Kwiki::Orphans uses the database to reveal pages which have no incoming links. The backlinks for any given page can be found the the following incantation:
@backlinks = $self->hub->backlinks->get_backlinks_for_page($page->id);
This returns a list of page ids.
Chris Dent, <cdent@burningchrome.com> Brian Ingerson, <ingy@ttul.org>
Thanks to Ricardo SIGNES for the idea and patch for showing backlinks on the edit page. Small price for very valuable gain.
Kwiki Spoon::Hooks
Copyright (C) 2005, Chris Dent
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
To install Kwiki::Backlinks, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm Kwiki::Backlinks
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install Kwiki::Backlinks
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.