* George Herbert <george.herbert(a)gmail.com> [Fri, 4 Sep 2009 20:03:03
-0700]:
I'm not at all familiar with the magic words
handling stuff; I have a
desire to be able to hide lower level headings absolutely (toclimit-3
for example) so I can use level 5 or 6 headings for a particular UI
purpose without them showing up in the TOC.
According to a response on
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Template_talk:TOClimit#What_…
the effect is actually relative (i.e., a level 6
header directly
under a level 1 header counts as "2 deep" not 6) rather than absolute.
Wanting to see what's under the hood I downloaded 1.15.1 and started
wandering around trying to figure out the magic words parsing and am
immediately confused.
I know PHP acceptably well but this particular set of stuff is not
giving me a good place to start figuring out the TOC formatting. I
looked in ImagePage.php and at MediaWiki:Common.css and am not seeing
where to start particularly - just grepping for "TOC" in * and
following stuff down from there didn't help much so far.
Where do I need to start looking to understand how the TOC is actually
produced?
I remember that when I've been parsed the page, some javascript was
insterted into it to generate the TOC.
Perhaps that code would help:
skins/common/prefs.js
// generate toc from prefs form, fold sections
// XXX: needs testing on IE/Mac and safari
// more comments to follow
function tabbedprefs() {
...
this is taken from 1.14.1
Dmitriy