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.
Also documented are all other URL queries.
PmWiki Actions
See also site page 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 and login
- ?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=search&q=link=pagename
- performs backlinks search with ‘’pagename’ 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
- ?action=upload
- display a form to upload an attachment for the current group, see uploads
Query string parameters
- ?from=page name
- use when a page is redirected
- ?n=page name
- display page
- ?setprefs=SomeGroup.CustomPreferences
- sets cookie to custom preferences page. See site preferences Customisable browser setting preferences: Access keys, edit form
The following actions are available only if you set $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=csv
- see CSVAction?
- ?action=downloaddeleted
-
- ?action=delattach
-
- ?action=delattach
-
- ?action=deldelattach
-
- ?action=fileinfo
-
- ?action=thumbnail
-
- ?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=postupload2
- see Cookbook:UploadForm
- ?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
Query string parameters enabled by Cookbook recipes
- ?color=colorscheme
-
:?setcolor=colorscheme
- ?skintheme=theme
-
- ?setskintheme=theme
- see Cookbook:ChoiceColorChanger {Cookbook/ChoiceColorChanger $:Summary}
- ?skin=skinname
-
- ?setskin=skinname
- see SkinChange
Custom actions
