diff --git a/doku.php b/doku.php
index af71e1c651881c7524e3c2e553478dfa0c7a5db6..242d2e6c221c6e65bd26e6613b71a933e4544978 100644
--- a/doku.php
+++ b/doku.php
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
   if(!defined('DOKU_INC')) define('DOKU_INC',realpath(dirname(__FILE__)).'/');
   require_once(DOKU_INC.'inc/init.php');
   require_once(DOKU_INC.'inc/common.php');
+	require_once(DOKU_INC.'inc/events.php');
   require_once(DOKU_INC.'inc/pageutils.php');
   require_once(DOKU_INC.'inc/html.php');
   require_once(DOKU_INC.'inc/auth.php');
diff --git a/inc/events.php b/inc/events.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..59c1d904dd0a811fbdc1513e1a5a6e1437700f2f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/inc/events.php
@@ -0,0 +1,162 @@
+<?php
+/**
+ * DokuWiki Events
+ *
+ * @license    GPL 2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html)
+ * @author     Christopher Smith <chris@jalakai.co.uk>
+ */
+
+if(!defined('DOKU_INC')) define('DOKU_INC',realpath(dirname(__FILE__).'/../').'/');
+require_once(DOKU_INC.'inc/pluginutils.php');
+class event {
+
+  // public properties
+  var $name = '';           // event name, objects must register against this name to see the event
+  var $data = NULL;         // data relevant to the event, no standardised format (YET!)
+  var $result = NULL;       // the results of the event action, only relevant in "*_after" advise
+
+  // private properties
+  var $_default = true;     // whether or not to carry out the default action associated with the event
+  var $_continue = true;    // whether or not to continue propagating the event to other handlers
+  var $_action = NULL;      // the function executed to carry out the event
+
+  /**
+   * event constructor
+   */
+  function event($name, &$data, $fn=NULL) {
+
+    $this->name = $name;
+    $this->data =& $data;
+    $this->_action = $fn;
+
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * advise
+   *
+   * advise all registered handlers of this event
+   * any processing based on the event's _default property to be determined by the caller
+   *
+   * @return  results of processing the event, usually $this->_default
+   */
+  function advise() {
+    global $EVENT_HANDLER;
+
+    return $EVENT_HANDLER->process_event($this,'');
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * trigger
+   *
+   * advise all registered (<event>_before) handlers that this event is about to take place
+   * carry out the default action using $this->data based on $this->_default, all of which
+   * may have been modified by the event handlers
+   * if the action was carried out, advise all registered (<event>_after) handlers that the
+   * event has taken place
+   *
+   * @return  $event->results
+   *          the value set by any <event>_before or <event> handlers if the default action is prevented
+   *          or the results of the default action (as modified by <event>_after handlers)
+   *          or NULL no action took place and no handler modified the value
+   */
+  function trigger() {
+    global $EVENT_HANDLER;
+
+    $EVENT_HANDLER->process_event($this,'before');
+    if ($this->_continue) $EVENT_HANDLER->process_event($this,'');
+
+    if ($this->_default && is_callable($this->_action)) {
+		  if (is_array($this->_action)) {
+        list($obj,$method) = $this->_action;
+        $this->result = $obj->$method($this->data);
+			} else {
+        $fn = $this->_action;
+        $this->result = $fn($this->data);
+			}
+
+      $EVENT_HANDLER->process_event($this,'after');
+    } 
+
+    return $this->result;
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * stopPropagation
+   *
+   * stop any further processing of the event by event handlers
+   * this function does not prevent the default action taking place
+   */
+  function stopPropagation() { $this->_continue = false;  }  
+
+  /**
+   * preventDefault
+   *
+   * prevent the default action taking place
+   */
+  function preventDefault() { $this->_default = false;  }
+}
+
+class event_handler {
+
+  // public properties:  none
+
+  // private properties
+  var $_hooks = array();          // array of events and their registered handlers
+
+  /*
+   * event_handler
+   *
+   * constructor, loads all action plugins and calls their register() method giving them
+   * an opportunity to register any hooks they require
+   */
+  function event_handler() {
+
+    // load action plugins
+    $plugin = NULL;
+    $pluginlist = plugin_list('action');
+
+    foreach ($pluginlist as $plugin_name) {
+      $plugin =& plugin_load('action',$plugin_name);
+
+      if ($plugin !== NULL) $plugin->register($this);
+    }
+  }
+
+  /*
+   * register_hook
+   *
+   * register a hook for an event
+   *
+   * @PARAM  $event   (string)   name used by the event, (incl '_before' or '_after' for triggers)
+   * @PARAM  $obj     (obj)      object in whose scope method is to be executed, 
+   *                             if NULL, method is assumed to be a globally available function
+   * @PARAM  $method  (function) event handler function
+   * @PARAM  $param   (mixed)    data passed to the event handler
+   */ 
+  function register_hook($event, &$obj, $method, $param) {
+    $this->_hooks[$event][] = array($obj, $method, $param);
+  }
+
+  function process_event(&$event,$advise='') {
+
+    $evt_name = $event->name . ($advise ? '_'.$advise : '');
+
+    if (!empty($this->_hooks[$evt_name])) {
+      $hook = reset($this->_hooks[$evt_name]);
+      do {
+        list($obj, $method, $param) = $hook;
+        if (is_null($obj)) {
+          $method($param, $event);
+        } else {
+          $obj->$method($param, $event);
+        }
+
+      } while ($event->_continue && $hook = next($this->_hooks[$evt_name]));
+    }
+
+    return $event->_default;
+  }
+}
+
+// create the event handler
+$EVENT_HANDLER = new event_handler();
diff --git a/inc/pluginutils.php b/inc/pluginutils.php
index d9cc848fecf29c37022721d5344a81ca9f0f22e3..4d3b5cbd6df37e4b58453f8b1ee0cb5aac5e63fe 100644
--- a/inc/pluginutils.php
+++ b/inc/pluginutils.php
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
  */
  
 // plugin related constants
-$plugin_types = array('admin','syntax');
+$plugin_types = array('admin','syntax','action');
  
 /**
  * Returns a list of available plugins of given type
diff --git a/lib/plugins/action.php b/lib/plugins/action.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..05d8735b9e618682c266e0311ac72096d2cb9b07
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/plugins/action.php
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+<?php
+/**
+ * Admin Plugin Prototype
+ * 
+ * @license    GPL 2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html)
+ * @author     Christopher Smith <chris@jalakai.co.uk>
+ */
+// must be run within Dokuwiki
+if(!defined('DOKU_INC')) die();
+
+if(!defined('DOKU_PLUGIN')) define('DOKU_PLUGIN',DOKU_INC.'lib/plugins/');
+require_once(DOKU_PLUGIN.'base.php');
+
+/**
+ * All DokuWiki plugins to extend the admin function
+ * need to inherit from this class
+ */
+class DokuWiki_Action_Plugin extends DokuWiki_Plugin {
+
+  function register($controller) {
+    trigger_error('register() not implemented in '.get_class($this), E_USER_WARNING);
+  }
+
+}
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diff --git a/lib/plugins/admin.php b/lib/plugins/admin.php
index 7245a73eb26b0bf5110bdd13eb6048205df035ea..0cf12ad9340ab86ab8d32cbe79eaccc80c240e19 100644
--- a/lib/plugins/admin.php
+++ b/lib/plugins/admin.php
@@ -9,32 +9,13 @@
 if(!defined('DOKU_INC')) die();
 
 if(!defined('DOKU_PLUGIN')) define('DOKU_PLUGIN',DOKU_INC.'lib/plugins/');
+require_once(DOKU_PLUGIN.'base.php');
 
 /**
  * All DokuWiki plugins to extend the admin function
  * need to inherit from this class
  */
-class DokuWiki_Admin_Plugin {
-
-  var $localised = false;        // set to true by setupLocale() after loading language dependent strings
-  var $lang = array();           // array to hold language dependent strings, best accessed via ->getLang()
-  var $configloaded = false;     // set to true by loadConfig() after loading plugin configuration variables
-
-  /**
-   * General Info
-   *
-   * Needs to return a associative array with the following values:
-   *
-   * author - Author of the plugin
-   * email  - Email address to contact the author
-   * date   - Last modified date of the plugin in YYYY-MM-DD format
-   * name   - Name of the plugin
-   * desc   - Short description of the plugin (Text only)
-   * url    - Website with more information on the plugin (eg. syntax description)
-   */
-  function getInfo(){
-    trigger_error('getInfo() not implemented in '.get_class($this), E_USER_WARNING);
-  }
+class DokuWiki_Admin_Plugin extends DokuWiki_Plugin {
 
   function getMenuText($language) {
       $menutext = $this->getLang('menu');
@@ -56,160 +37,7 @@ class DokuWiki_Admin_Plugin {
   function html() {
     trigger_error('html() not implemented in '.get_class($this), E_USER_WARNING); 
   }
-  
-  // private methods (maybe a dokuwiki plugin base class is required for these)
-  
-  // plugin introspection methods
-  // extract from class name, format = <plugin type>_plugin_<name>[_<component name>]
-  function getPluginType() { list($t) = explode('_', get_class($this), 2); return $t;  }
-  function getPluginName() { list($t, $p, $n) = explode('_', get_class($this), 4); return $n; }
-  function getPluginComponent() { list($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   $id     id of the string to be retrieved
-   * @return  string  string in appropriate language or english if not available
-   */
-  function getLang($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   $id     id of language dependent wiki page
-   * @return  string  parsed contents of the wiki page in xhtml format
-   */
-  function locale_xhtml($id) {
-    return p_cached_xhtml($this->localFN($id));
-  }
-  
-  /**
-   * localFN($id)
-   * prepends appropriate path for a language dependent filename
-   * plugin equivalent of localFN()
-   */
-  function localFN($id) {
-    global $conf;
-    $plugin = $this->getPluginName();
-    $file = DOKU_PLUGIN.$plugin.'/lang/'.$conf['lang'].'/'.$id.'.txt';
-    if(!@file_exists($file)){
-      //fall back to english
-      $file = DOKU_PLUGIN.$plugin.'/lang/en/'.$id.'.txt';
-    }
-    return $file;
-  }
-  
-  /**
-   *  setupLocale() 
-   *  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;            // 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');    
-    if ($conf['lang'] != 'en') @include($path.$conf['lang'].'/lang.php');
-    
-    $this->lang = $lang;
-    $this->localised = true;
-  }
-  
-  // configuration methods
-  /**
-   * getConf($id)
-   * 
-   * use this function to access plugin configuration variables
-   */
-  function getConf($id){
-    global $conf;
     
-    $plugin = $this->getPluginName();
-    
-    if (!$this->configloaded){
-      if ($pconf = $this->loadConfig() !== false){
-        foreach ($pconf as $key => $value){
-          if (isset($conf['plugin'][$plugin][$key])) continue;
-          $conf['plugin'][$plugin][$key] = $value;
-        }
-        $this->configloaded = true;
-      }
-    }
-
-    return $conf['plugin'][$plugin][$id];
-  }
-  
-  /**
-   * loadConfig()
-   * reads all plugin configuration variables into $this->conf
-   * this function is automatically called by getConf()
-   */
-  function loadConfig(){
-        
-    $path = DOKU_PLUGIN.$this->getPluginName().'/conf/';
-    $conf = array();
-    
-    if (!@file_exists($path.'default.php')) return false;
-    
-    // load default config file
-    include($path.'default.php');
-    
-    return $conf;
-  }
-  
-  // standard functions for outputing email addresses and links
-  // use these to avoid having to duplicate code to produce links in line with the installation configuration
-  function email($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>";
-  }
-  
-  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>$title</a>";
-  }
-                
-  // output text string through the parser, allows dokuwiki markup to be used
-  // very ineffecient for small pieces of data - try not to use
-  function render($text, $format='xhtml') {
-    return p_render($format, p_get_instructions($text),$info); 
-  }
-  
-  // deprecated functions
-  function plugin_localFN($id) { return $this->localFN($id); }
-  function plugin_locale_xhtml($id) { return $this->locale_xhtml($id); }
-  function plugin_email($e, $n='', $c='', $m='') { return $this->email($e, $n, $c, $m); }
-  function plugin_link($l, $t='', $c='', $to='', $m='') { return $this->external_link($l, $t, $c, $to, $m); }
-  function plugin_render($t, $f='xhtml') { return $this->render($t, $f); }
   
 }
 //Setup VIM: ex: et ts=4 enc=utf-8 :
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diff --git a/lib/plugins/base.php b/lib/plugins/base.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7f27942aa116cbb3bebba312c2405d70720ab381
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/plugins/base.php
@@ -0,0 +1,190 @@
+<?php
+/**
+ * Admin Plugin Prototype
+ * 
+ * @license    GPL 2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html)
+ * @author     Christopher Smith <chris@jalakai.co.uk>
+ */
+// must be run within Dokuwiki
+if(!defined('DOKU_INC')) die();
+
+if(!defined('DOKU_PLUGIN')) define('DOKU_PLUGIN',DOKU_INC.'lib/plugins/');
+
+/**
+ * All DokuWiki plugins to extend the admin function
+ * need to inherit from this class
+ */
+class DokuWiki_Plugin {
+
+  var $localised = false;        // set to true by setupLocale() after loading language dependent strings
+  var $lang = array();           // array to hold language dependent strings, best accessed via ->getLang()
+  var $configloaded = false;     // set to true by loadConfig() after loading plugin configuration variables
+
+  /**
+   * General Info
+   *
+   * Needs to return a associative array with the following values:
+   *
+   * author - Author of the plugin
+   * email  - Email address to contact the author
+   * date   - Last modified date of the plugin in YYYY-MM-DD format
+   * name   - Name of the plugin
+   * desc   - Short description of the plugin (Text only)
+   * url    - Website with more information on the plugin (eg. syntax description)
+   */
+  function getInfo(){
+    trigger_error('getInfo() not implemented in '.get_class($this), E_USER_WARNING);
+  }
+  
+  // plugin introspection methods
+  // extract from class name, format = <plugin type>_plugin_<name>[_<component name>]
+  function getPluginType() { list($t) = explode('_', get_class($this), 2); return $t;  }
+  function getPluginName() { list($t, $p, $n) = explode('_', get_class($this), 4); return $n; }
+  function getPluginComponent() { list($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   $id     id of the string to be retrieved
+   * @return  string  string in appropriate language or english if not available
+   */
+  function getLang($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   $id     id of language dependent wiki page
+   * @return  string  parsed contents of the wiki page in xhtml format
+   */
+  function locale_xhtml($id) {
+    return p_cached_xhtml($this->localFN($id));
+  }
+  
+  /**
+   * localFN($id)
+   * prepends appropriate path for a language dependent filename
+   * plugin equivalent of localFN()
+   */
+  function localFN($id) {
+    global $conf;
+    $plugin = $this->getPluginName();
+    $file = DOKU_PLUGIN.$plugin.'/lang/'.$conf['lang'].'/'.$id.'.txt';
+    if(!@file_exists($file)){
+      //fall back to english
+      $file = DOKU_PLUGIN.$plugin.'/lang/en/'.$id.'.txt';
+    }
+    return $file;
+  }
+  
+  /**
+   *  setupLocale() 
+   *  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;            // 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');    
+    if ($conf['lang'] != 'en') @include($path.$conf['lang'].'/lang.php');
+    
+    $this->lang = $lang;
+    $this->localised = true;
+  }
+  
+  // configuration methods
+  /**
+   * getConf($id)
+   * 
+   * use this function to access plugin configuration variables
+   */
+  function getConf($id){
+    global $conf;
+    
+    $plugin = $this->getPluginName();
+    
+    if (!$this->configloaded){
+      if ($pconf = $this->loadConfig() !== false){
+        foreach ($pconf as $key => $value){
+          if (isset($conf['plugin'][$plugin][$key])) continue;
+          $conf['plugin'][$plugin][$key] = $value;
+        }
+        $this->configloaded = true;
+      }
+    }
+
+    return $conf['plugin'][$plugin][$id];
+  }
+  
+  /**
+   * loadConfig()
+   * reads all plugin configuration variables into $this->conf
+   * this function is automatically called by getConf()
+   */
+  function loadConfig(){
+        
+    $path = DOKU_PLUGIN.$this->getPluginName().'/conf/';
+    $conf = array();
+    
+    if (!@file_exists($path.'default.php')) return false;
+    
+    // load default config file
+    include($path.'default.php');
+    
+    return $conf;
+  }
+	
+  // standard functions for outputing email addresses and links
+  // use these to avoid having to duplicate code to produce links in line with the installation configuration
+  function email($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>";
+  }
+  
+  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>$title</a>";
+  }
+                
+  // output text string through the parser, allows dokuwiki markup to be used
+  // very ineffecient for small pieces of data - try not to use
+  function render($text, $format='xhtml') {
+    return p_render($format, p_get_instructions($text),$info); 
+  }
+  
+  // deprecated functions
+  function plugin_localFN($id) { return $this->localFN($id); }
+  function plugin_locale_xhtml($id) { return $this->locale_xhtml($id); }
+  function plugin_email($e, $n='', $c='', $m='') { return $this->email($e, $n, $c, $m); }
+  function plugin_link($l, $t='', $c='', $to='', $m='') { return $this->external_link($l, $t, $c, $to, $m); }
+  function plugin_render($t, $f='xhtml') { return $this->render($t, $f); }
+}
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