NAME

Chronicle::Plugin::Snippets::Meta - Make meta information available to templates

DESCRIPTION

This module makes some meta-information available to chronicle templates, which includes:

The ate the blog was (re)built.

The time the blog was (re)built.

The version of chronicle.

The hostname of the system which built the blog.

The username of the builder.

These values can be used in templates like so:

This Blog was generated by Chronicle version
<!-- tmpl_var name='chronicle_version' --> on
<!-- tmpl_var name='build_date' --> at
<!-- tmpl_var name='build_time' -->.

METHODS

Now follows documentation on the available methods.

on_initiate

The on_initiate method is automatically invoked just before any on_generate methods which might be present.

This method updates the global variables, which are made available to all loaded templates to define meta variables such as chronicle_version containing the current release number, and build_date and build_time containing the date and time of when the blog was (re)build (respectivley).

LICENSE

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either:

a) the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version, or

b) the Perl "Artistic License".

AUTHOR

Stuart Skelton