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This plugin helps you use a consistent permanent link format by generating permanent links for you. It does this by exporting two variables, $permalink::story and $permalink::category, which contain the permanent link for the current story and category, respectively. It also provides a function permalink::get_link() which can be used by other plugins when they wish to get a permanent link for a file.
I also have some patches for blosxom.cgi and some other plugins that make them use permalink:
Documentation is available here.
March 22nd, 2006 at 10:15 am
[...] Getting Blosxom to generate the new URLs took several plugins. The main one is permalink, which provides permalinks for stories and can be used by other plugins when they need a URL generated. Some files, like binary files and directories, can’t contain metadates and since the new scheme needs dates for everything, I wrote the metadate plugin. It lets metadates reside in an external file, so I can use metadates for all my categories. Finally, I patched the absolute plugin so I can easily reference other stories/files/categories. [...]