From 39bceb982dfe14e33bca67f2ecfdbb3de5d14f5f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andreas Gohr <andi@splitbrain.org>
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2017 16:39:07 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Change plugin functionality into a trait

This allows for using the functionality in class hierarchies that can
not inherit from DokuWiki_Plugin.
---
 inc/Plugin.php                 |  11 ++
 inc/PluginInterface.php        | 158 +++++++++++++++++
 inc/PluginTrait.php            | 238 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 inc/load.php                   |   9 +-
 inc/plugin.php                 | 300 ---------------------------------
 inc/plugincontroller.class.php |   2 +-
 inc/pluginutils.php            |   2 +-
 7 files changed, 416 insertions(+), 304 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 inc/Plugin.php
 create mode 100644 inc/PluginInterface.php
 create mode 100644 inc/PluginTrait.php
 delete mode 100644 inc/plugin.php

diff --git a/inc/Plugin.php b/inc/Plugin.php
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..9cd0ae805
--- /dev/null
+++ b/inc/Plugin.php
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+<?php
+
+/**
+ * DokuWiki Plugin
+ *
+ * Most of DokuWiki's plugin types simply inherit from this. All it does is
+ * add the DokuWiki_PluginTrait to the class.
+ */
+class DokuWiki_Plugin implements DokuWiki_PluginInterface {
+    use DokuWiki_PluginTrait;
+}
diff --git a/inc/PluginInterface.php b/inc/PluginInterface.php
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..608989096
--- /dev/null
+++ b/inc/PluginInterface.php
@@ -0,0 +1,158 @@
+<?php
+/**
+ * DokuWiki Plugin Interface
+ *
+ * Defines the public contract all DokuWiki plugins will adhere to. The actual code
+ * to do so is defined in DokuWiki_PluginTrait
+ *
+ * @license    GPL 2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html)
+ * @author     Christopher Smith <chris@jalakai.co.uk>
+ */
+interface DokuWiki_PluginInterface {
+    /**
+     * General Info
+     *
+     * Needs to return a associative array with the following values:
+     *
+     * base   - the plugin's base name (eg. the directory it needs to be installed in)
+     * author - Author of the plugin
+     * email  - Email address to contact the author
+     * date   - Last modified date of the plugin in YYYY-MM-DD format
+     * name   - Name of the plugin
+     * desc   - Short description of the plugin (Text only)
+     * url    - Website with more information on the plugin (eg. syntax description)
+     */
+    public function getInfo();
+
+    /**
+     * The type of the plugin inferred from the class name
+     *
+     * @return string  plugin type
+     */
+    public function getPluginType();
+
+    /**
+     * The name of the plugin inferred from the class name
+     *
+     * @return string  plugin name
+     */
+    public function getPluginName();
+
+    /**
+     * The component part of the plugin inferred from the class name
+     *
+     * @return string component name
+     */
+    public function getPluginComponent();
+
+    /**
+     * Access plugin language strings
+     *
+     * to try to minimise unnecessary loading of the strings when the plugin doesn't require them
+     * e.g. when info plugin is querying plugins for information about themselves.
+     *
+     * @param   string $id id of the string to be retrieved
+     * @return  string in appropriate language or english if not available
+     */
+    public function getLang($id);
+
+    /**
+     * retrieve a language dependent file and pass to xhtml renderer for display
+     * plugin equivalent of p_locale_xhtml()
+     *
+     * @param   string $id id of language dependent wiki page
+     * @return  string parsed contents of the wiki page in xhtml format
+     */
+    public function locale_xhtml($id);
+
+    /**
+     * Prepends appropriate path for a language dependent filename
+     * plugin equivalent of localFN()
+     *
+     * @param string $id id of localization file
+     * @param  string $ext The file extension (usually txt)
+     * @return string wiki text
+     */
+    public function localFN($id, $ext = 'txt');
+
+    /**
+     * Reads all the plugins language dependent strings into $this->lang
+     * this function is automatically called by getLang()
+     *
+     * @todo this could be made protected and be moved to the trait only
+     */
+    public function setupLocale();
+
+    /**
+     * use this function to access plugin configuration variables
+     *
+     * @param string $setting the setting to access
+     * @param mixed $notset what to return if the setting is not available
+     * @return mixed
+     */
+    public function getConf($setting, $notset = false);
+
+    /**
+     * merges the plugin's default settings with any local settings
+     * this function is automatically called through getConf()
+     *
+     * @todo this could be made protected and be moved to the trait only
+     */
+    public function loadConfig();
+
+    /**
+     * Loads a given helper plugin (if enabled)
+     *
+     * @author  Esther Brunner <wikidesign@gmail.com>
+     *
+     * @param   string $name name of plugin to load
+     * @param   bool $msg if a message should be displayed in case the plugin is not available
+     * @return  DokuWiki_PluginInterface|null helper plugin object
+     */
+    public function loadHelper($name, $msg = true);
+
+    /**
+     * email
+     * standardised function to generate an email link according to obfuscation settings
+     *
+     * @param string $email
+     * @param string $name
+     * @param string $class
+     * @param string $more
+     * @return string html
+     */
+    public function email($email, $name = '', $class = '', $more = '');
+
+    /**
+     * external_link
+     * standardised function to generate an external link according to conf settings
+     *
+     * @param string $link
+     * @param string $title
+     * @param string $class
+     * @param string $target
+     * @param string $more
+     * @return string
+     */
+    public function external_link($link, $title = '', $class = '', $target = '', $more = '');
+
+    /**
+     * output text string through the parser, allows dokuwiki markup to be used
+     * very ineffecient for small pieces of data - try not to use
+     *
+     * @param string $text wiki markup to parse
+     * @param string $format output format
+     * @return null|string
+     */
+    public function render_text($text, $format = 'xhtml');
+
+    /**
+     * Allow the plugin to prevent DokuWiki from reusing an instance
+     *
+     * @return bool   false if the plugin has to be instantiated
+     */
+    public function isSingleton();
+}
+
+
+
diff --git a/inc/PluginTrait.php b/inc/PluginTrait.php
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..57b735e85
--- /dev/null
+++ b/inc/PluginTrait.php
@@ -0,0 +1,238 @@
+<?php
+
+/**
+ * Do not inherit directly from this class, instead inherit from the specialized
+ * ones in lib/plugin
+ */
+trait DokuWiki_PluginTrait {
+
+    protected $localised = false;        // set to true by setupLocale() after loading language dependent strings
+    protected $lang = array();           // array to hold language dependent strings, best accessed via ->getLang()
+    protected $configloaded = false;     // set to true by loadConfig() after loading plugin configuration variables
+    protected $conf = array();           // array to hold plugin settings, best accessed via ->getConf()
+
+    /**
+     * @see DokuWiki_PluginInterface::getInfo()
+     */
+    public function getInfo() {
+        $parts = explode('_', get_class($this));
+        $info = DOKU_PLUGIN . '/' . $parts[2] . '/plugin.info.txt';
+        if(file_exists($info)) return confToHash($info);
+
+        msg(
+            'getInfo() not implemented in ' . get_class($this) . ' and ' . $info . ' not found.<br />' .
+            'Verify you\'re running the latest version of the plugin. If the problem persists, send a ' .
+            'bug report to the author of the ' . $parts[2] . ' plugin.', -1
+        );
+        return array(
+            'date' => '0000-00-00',
+            'name' => $parts[2] . ' plugin',
+        );
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @see DokuWiki_PluginInterface::isSingleton()
+     */
+    public function isSingleton() {
+        return true;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @see DokuWiki_PluginInterface::loadHelper()
+     */
+    public function loadHelper($name, $msg = true) {
+        $obj = plugin_load('helper', $name);
+        if(is_null($obj) && $msg) msg("Helper plugin $name is not available or invalid.", -1);
+        return $obj;
+    }
+
+    // region introspection methods
+
+    /**
+     * @see DokuWiki_PluginInterface::getPluginType()
+     */
+    public function getPluginType() {
+        list($t) = explode('_', get_class($this), 2);
+        return $t;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @see DokuWiki_PluginInterface::getPluginName()
+     */
+    public function getPluginName() {
+        list(/* $t */, /* $p */, $n) = explode('_', get_class($this), 4);
+        return $n;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @see DokuWiki_PluginInterface::getPluginComponent()
+     */
+    public function getPluginComponent() {
+        list(/* $t */, /* $p */, /* $n */, $c) = explode('_', get_class($this), 4);
+        return (isset($c) ? $c : '');
+    }
+
+    // endregion
+    // region localization methods
+
+    /**
+     * @see DokuWiki_PluginInterface::getLang()
+     */
+    public function getLang($id) {
+        if(!$this->localised) $this->setupLocale();
+
+        return (isset($this->lang[$id]) ? $this->lang[$id] : '');
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @see DokuWiki_PluginInterface::locale_xhtml()
+     */
+    public function locale_xhtml($id) {
+        return p_cached_output($this->localFN($id));
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @see DokuWiki_PluginInterface::localFN()
+     */
+    public function localFN($id, $ext = 'txt') {
+        global $conf;
+        $plugin = $this->getPluginName();
+        $file = DOKU_CONF . 'plugin_lang/' . $plugin . '/' . $conf['lang'] . '/' . $id . '.' . $ext;
+        if(!file_exists($file)) {
+            $file = DOKU_PLUGIN . $plugin . '/lang/' . $conf['lang'] . '/' . $id . '.' . $ext;
+            if(!file_exists($file)) {
+                //fall back to english
+                $file = DOKU_PLUGIN . $plugin . '/lang/en/' . $id . '.' . $ext;
+            }
+        }
+        return $file;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @see DokuWiki_PluginInterface::setupLocale()
+     */
+    public function setupLocale() {
+        if($this->localised) return;
+
+        global $conf, $config_cascade; // definitely don't invoke "global $lang"
+        $path = DOKU_PLUGIN . $this->getPluginName() . '/lang/';
+
+        $lang = array();
+
+        // don't include once, in case several plugin components require the same language file
+        @include($path . 'en/lang.php');
+        foreach($config_cascade['lang']['plugin'] as $config_file) {
+            if(file_exists($config_file . $this->getPluginName() . '/en/lang.php')) {
+                include($config_file . $this->getPluginName() . '/en/lang.php');
+            }
+        }
+
+        if($conf['lang'] != 'en') {
+            @include($path . $conf['lang'] . '/lang.php');
+            foreach($config_cascade['lang']['plugin'] as $config_file) {
+                if(file_exists($config_file . $this->getPluginName() . '/' . $conf['lang'] . '/lang.php')) {
+                    include($config_file . $this->getPluginName() . '/' . $conf['lang'] . '/lang.php');
+                }
+            }
+        }
+
+        $this->lang = $lang;
+        $this->localised = true;
+    }
+
+    // endregion
+    // region configuration methods
+
+    /**
+     * @see DokuWiki_PluginInterface::getConf()
+     */
+    public function getConf($setting, $notset = false) {
+
+        if(!$this->configloaded) {
+            $this->loadConfig();
+        }
+
+        if(isset($this->conf[$setting])) {
+            return $this->conf[$setting];
+        } else {
+            return $notset;
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @see DokuWiki_PluginInterface::loadConfig()
+     */
+    public function loadConfig() {
+        global $conf;
+
+        $defaults = $this->readDefaultSettings();
+        $plugin = $this->getPluginName();
+
+        foreach($defaults as $key => $value) {
+            if(isset($conf['plugin'][$plugin][$key])) continue;
+            $conf['plugin'][$plugin][$key] = $value;
+        }
+
+        $this->configloaded = true;
+        $this->conf =& $conf['plugin'][$plugin];
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * read the plugin's default configuration settings from conf/default.php
+     * this function is automatically called through getConf()
+     *
+     * @return    array    setting => value
+     */
+    protected function readDefaultSettings() {
+
+        $path = DOKU_PLUGIN . $this->getPluginName() . '/conf/';
+        $conf = array();
+
+        if(file_exists($path . 'default.php')) {
+            include($path . 'default.php');
+        }
+
+        return $conf;
+    }
+
+    // endregion
+    // region output methods
+
+    /**
+     * @see DokuWiki_PluginInterface::email()
+     */
+    public function email($email, $name = '', $class = '', $more = '') {
+        if(!$email) return $name;
+        $email = obfuscate($email);
+        if(!$name) $name = $email;
+        $class = "class='" . ($class ? $class : 'mail') . "'";
+        return "<a href='mailto:$email' $class title='$email' $more>$name</a>";
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @see DokuWiki_PluginInterface::external_link()
+     */
+    public function external_link($link, $title = '', $class = '', $target = '', $more = '') {
+        global $conf;
+
+        $link = htmlentities($link);
+        if(!$title) $title = $link;
+        if(!$target) $target = $conf['target']['extern'];
+        if($conf['relnofollow']) $more .= ' rel="nofollow"';
+
+        if($class) $class = " class='$class'";
+        if($target) $target = " target='$target'";
+        if($more) $more = " " . trim($more);
+
+        return "<a href='$link'$class$target$more>$title</a>";
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @see DokuWiki_PluginInterface::render_text()
+     */
+    public function render_text($text, $format = 'xhtml') {
+        return p_render($format, p_get_instructions($text), $info);
+    }
+
+    // endregion
+}
diff --git a/inc/load.php b/inc/load.php
index 14f8db3f7..b9d54cf10 100644
--- a/inc/load.php
+++ b/inc/load.php
@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@ require_once(DOKU_INC.'inc/changelog.php');
 require_once(DOKU_INC.'inc/common.php');
 require_once(DOKU_INC.'inc/confutils.php');
 require_once(DOKU_INC.'inc/pluginutils.php');
-require_once(DOKU_INC.'inc/plugin.php');
 require_once(DOKU_INC.'inc/events.php');
 require_once(DOKU_INC.'inc/form.php');
 require_once(DOKU_INC.'inc/fulltext.php');
@@ -85,11 +84,17 @@ function load_autoload($name){
         'RemoteAPICore'         => DOKU_INC.'inc/RemoteAPICore.php',
         'Subscription'          => DOKU_INC.'inc/subscription.php',
 
+        'DokuWiki_PluginInterface' => DOKU_INC.'inc/PluginInterface.php',
+        'DokuWiki_PluginTrait'     => DOKU_INC.'inc/PluginTrait.php',
+        'DokuWiki_Plugin'          => DOKU_INC.'inc/Plugin.php',
+
+
         'DokuWiki_Action_Plugin' => DOKU_PLUGIN.'action.php',
         'DokuWiki_Admin_Plugin'  => DOKU_PLUGIN.'admin.php',
         'DokuWiki_Syntax_Plugin' => DOKU_PLUGIN.'syntax.php',
         'DokuWiki_Remote_Plugin' => DOKU_PLUGIN.'remote.php',
         'DokuWiki_Auth_Plugin'   => DOKU_PLUGIN.'auth.php',
+        'DokuWiki_CLI_Plugin'    => DOKU_PLUGIN.'cli.php',
 
         'Doku_Renderer'          => DOKU_INC.'inc/parser/renderer.php',
         'Doku_Renderer_xhtml'    => DOKU_INC.'inc/parser/xhtml.php',
@@ -141,7 +146,7 @@ function load_autoload($name){
     }
 
     // Plugin loading
-    if(preg_match('/^(auth|helper|syntax|action|admin|renderer|remote)_plugin_('.DOKU_PLUGIN_NAME_REGEX.')(?:_([^_]+))?$/',
+    if(preg_match('/^(auth|helper|syntax|action|admin|renderer|remote|cli)_plugin_('.DOKU_PLUGIN_NAME_REGEX.')(?:_([^_]+))?$/',
                   $name, $m)) {
         // try to load the wanted plugin file
         $c = ((count($m) === 4) ? "/{$m[3]}" : '');
diff --git a/inc/plugin.php b/inc/plugin.php
deleted file mode 100644
index 8a90c0a6e..000000000
--- a/inc/plugin.php
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,300 +0,0 @@
-<?php
-/**
- * DokuWiki Plugin base class
- *
- * @license    GPL 2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html)
- * @author     Christopher Smith <chris@jalakai.co.uk>
- */
-
-/**
- * Do not inherit directly from this class, instead inherit from the specialized
- * ones in lib/plugin
- */
-class DokuWiki_Plugin {
-
-    protected $localised = false;        // set to true by setupLocale() after loading language dependent strings
-    protected $lang = array();           // array to hold language dependent strings, best accessed via ->getLang()
-    protected $configloaded = false;     // set to true by loadConfig() after loading plugin configuration variables
-    protected $conf = array();           // array to hold plugin settings, best accessed via ->getConf()
-
-    /**
-     * General Info
-     *
-     * Needs to return a associative array with the following values:
-     *
-     * base   - the plugin's base name (eg. the directory it needs to be installed in)
-     * author - Author of the plugin
-     * email  - Email address to contact the author
-     * date   - Last modified date of the plugin in YYYY-MM-DD format
-     * name   - Name of the plugin
-     * desc   - Short description of the plugin (Text only)
-     * url    - Website with more information on the plugin (eg. syntax description)
-     */
-    public function getInfo(){
-        $parts = explode('_', get_class($this));
-        $info = DOKU_PLUGIN . '/' . $parts[2] . '/plugin.info.txt';
-        if(file_exists($info)) return confToHash($info);
-
-        msg(
-            'getInfo() not implemented in ' . get_class($this) . ' and ' . $info . ' not found.<br />' .
-            'Verify you\'re running the latest version of the plugin. If the problem persists, send a ' .
-            'bug report to the author of the ' . $parts[2] . ' plugin.', -1
-        );
-        return array(
-            'date' => '0000-00-00',
-            'name' => $parts[2] . ' plugin',
-        );
-    }
-
-    // plugin introspection methods
-    // extract from class name, format = <plugin type>_plugin_<name>[_<component name>]
-    /**
-     * @return string  plugin type
-     */
-    public function getPluginType() {
-        list($t) = explode('_', get_class($this), 2);
-        return $t;
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * @return string  plugin name
-     */
-    public function getPluginName() {
-        list(/* $t */, /* $p */, $n) = explode('_', get_class($this), 4);
-        return $n;
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * @return string  component name
-     */
-    public function getPluginComponent() {
-        list(/* $t */, /* $p */, /* $n */, $c) = explode('_', get_class($this), 4);
-        return (isset($c)?$c:'');
-    }
-
-    // localisation methods
-    /**
-     * getLang($id)
-     * use this function to access plugin language strings
-     * to try to minimise unnecessary loading of the strings when the plugin doesn't require them
-     * e.g. when info plugin is querying plugins for information about themselves.
-     *
-     * @param   string  $id     id of the string to be retrieved
-     * @return  string  string in appropriate language or english if not available
-     */
-    public function getLang($id) {
-        if (!$this->localised) $this->setupLocale();
-
-        return (isset($this->lang[$id]) ? $this->lang[$id] : '');
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * locale_xhtml($id)
-     *
-     * retrieve a language dependent file and pass to xhtml renderer for display
-     * plugin equivalent of p_locale_xhtml()
-     *
-     * @param   string $id id of language dependent wiki page
-     * @return  string     parsed contents of the wiki page in xhtml format
-     */
-    public function locale_xhtml($id) {
-        return p_cached_output($this->localFN($id));
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * Prepends appropriate path for a language dependent filename
-     * plugin equivalent of localFN()
-     *
-     * @param string $id id of localization file
-     * @param  string $ext The file extension (usually txt)
-     * @return string wiki text
-     */
-    public function localFN($id,$ext='txt') {
-        global $conf;
-        $plugin = $this->getPluginName();
-        $file = DOKU_CONF.'plugin_lang/'.$plugin.'/'.$conf['lang'].'/'.$id.'.'.$ext;
-        if (!file_exists($file)){
-            $file = DOKU_PLUGIN.$plugin.'/lang/'.$conf['lang'].'/'.$id.'.'.$ext;
-            if(!file_exists($file)){
-                //fall back to english
-                $file = DOKU_PLUGIN.$plugin.'/lang/en/'.$id.'.'.$ext;
-            }
-        }
-        return $file;
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * Reads all the plugins language dependent strings into $this->lang
-     * this function is automatically called by getLang()
-     */
-    function setupLocale() {
-        if($this->localised) return;
-
-        global $conf, $config_cascade; // definitely don't invoke "global $lang"
-        $path = DOKU_PLUGIN . $this->getPluginName() . '/lang/';
-
-        $lang = array();
-
-        // don't include once, in case several plugin components require the same language file
-        @include($path . 'en/lang.php');
-        foreach($config_cascade['lang']['plugin'] as $config_file) {
-            if(file_exists($config_file . $this->getPluginName() . '/en/lang.php')) {
-                include($config_file . $this->getPluginName() . '/en/lang.php');
-            }
-        }
-
-        if($conf['lang'] != 'en') {
-            @include($path . $conf['lang'] . '/lang.php');
-            foreach($config_cascade['lang']['plugin'] as $config_file) {
-                if(file_exists($config_file . $this->getPluginName() . '/' . $conf['lang'] . '/lang.php')) {
-                    include($config_file . $this->getPluginName() . '/' . $conf['lang'] . '/lang.php');
-                }
-            }
-        }
-
-        $this->lang = $lang;
-        $this->localised = true;
-    }
-
-    // configuration methods
-    /**
-     * getConf($setting)
-     *
-     * use this function to access plugin configuration variables
-     *
-     * @param string $setting the setting to access
-     * @param mixed  $notset  what to return if the setting is not available
-     * @return mixed
-     */
-    public function getConf($setting, $notset=false){
-
-        if (!$this->configloaded){ $this->loadConfig(); }
-
-        if(isset($this->conf[$setting])){
-            return $this->conf[$setting];
-        }else{
-            return $notset;
-        }
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * loadConfig()
-     * merges the plugin's default settings with any local settings
-     * this function is automatically called through getConf()
-     */
-    function loadConfig(){
-        global $conf;
-
-        $defaults = $this->readDefaultSettings();
-        $plugin = $this->getPluginName();
-
-        foreach ($defaults as $key => $value) {
-            if (isset($conf['plugin'][$plugin][$key])) continue;
-            $conf['plugin'][$plugin][$key] = $value;
-        }
-
-        $this->configloaded = true;
-        $this->conf =& $conf['plugin'][$plugin];
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * read the plugin's default configuration settings from conf/default.php
-     * this function is automatically called through getConf()
-     *
-     * @return    array    setting => value
-     */
-    protected function readDefaultSettings() {
-
-        $path = DOKU_PLUGIN.$this->getPluginName().'/conf/';
-        $conf = array();
-
-        if (file_exists($path.'default.php')) {
-            include($path.'default.php');
-        }
-
-        return $conf;
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * Loads a given helper plugin (if enabled)
-     *
-     * @author  Esther Brunner <wikidesign@gmail.com>
-     *
-     * @param   string $name   name of plugin to load
-     * @param   bool   $msg    if a message should be displayed in case the plugin is not available
-     * @return  DokuWiki_Plugin|null helper plugin object
-     */
-    public function loadHelper($name, $msg = true){
-        $obj = plugin_load('helper',$name);
-        if (is_null($obj) && $msg) msg("Helper plugin $name is not available or invalid.",-1);
-        return $obj;
-    }
-
-    // standard functions for outputing email addresses and links
-    // use these to avoid having to duplicate code to produce links in line with the installation configuration
-
-    /**
-     * email
-     * standardised function to generate an email link according to obfuscation settings
-     *
-     * @param string $email
-     * @param string $name
-     * @param string $class
-     * @param string $more
-     * @return string html
-     */
-    public function email($email, $name='', $class='', $more='') {
-        if (!$email) return $name;
-        $email = obfuscate($email);
-        if (!$name) $name = $email;
-        $class = "class='".($class ? $class : 'mail')."'";
-        return "<a href='mailto:$email' $class title='$email' $more>$name</a>";
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * external_link
-     * standardised function to generate an external link according to conf settings
-     *
-     * @param string $link
-     * @param string $title
-     * @param string $class
-     * @param string $target
-     * @param string $more
-     * @return string
-     */
-    public function external_link($link, $title='', $class='', $target='', $more='') {
-        global $conf;
-
-        $link = htmlentities($link);
-        if (!$title) $title = $link;
-        if (!$target) $target = $conf['target']['extern'];
-        if ($conf['relnofollow']) $more .= ' rel="nofollow"';
-
-        if ($class) $class = " class='$class'";
-        if ($target) $target = " target='$target'";
-        if ($more) $more = " ".trim($more);
-
-        return "<a href='$link'$class$target$more>$title</a>";
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * output text string through the parser, allows dokuwiki markup to be used
-     * very ineffecient for small pieces of data - try not to use
-     *
-     * @param string $text   wiki markup to parse
-     * @param string $format output format
-     * @return null|string
-     */
-    public function render_text($text, $format='xhtml') {
-        return p_render($format, p_get_instructions($text),$info);
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * Allow the plugin to prevent DokuWiki from reusing an instance
-     *
-     * @return bool   false if the plugin has to be instantiated
-     */
-    public function isSingleton() {
-        return true;
-    }
-}
diff --git a/inc/plugincontroller.class.php b/inc/plugincontroller.class.php
index 5bb07531e..fd8cd9663 100644
--- a/inc/plugincontroller.class.php
+++ b/inc/plugincontroller.class.php
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ class Doku_Plugin_Controller {
      * @param  $name     string name of the plugin to load
      * @param  $new      bool   true to return a new instance of the plugin, false to use an already loaded instance
      * @param  $disabled bool   true to load even disabled plugins
-     * @return DokuWiki_Plugin|DokuWiki_Syntax_Plugin|DokuWiki_Auth_Plugin|DokuWiki_Admin_Plugin|DokuWiki_Action_Plugin|DokuWiki_Remote_Plugin|null  the plugin object or null on failure
+     * @return DokuWiki_PluginInterface|null  the plugin object or null on failure
      */
     public function load($type,$name,$new=false,$disabled=false){
 
diff --git a/inc/pluginutils.php b/inc/pluginutils.php
index 60f79869f..a395be435 100644
--- a/inc/pluginutils.php
+++ b/inc/pluginutils.php
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ function plugin_list($type='',$all=false) {
  * @param  $name     string name of the plugin to load
  * @param  $new      bool   true to return a new instance of the plugin, false to use an already loaded instance
  * @param  $disabled bool   true to load even disabled plugins
- * @return DokuWiki_Plugin|null  the plugin object or null on failure
+ * @return DokuWiki_PluginInterface|null  the plugin object or null on failure
  */
 function plugin_load($type,$name,$new=false,$disabled=false) {
     /** @var $plugin_controller Doku_Plugin_Controller */
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