Jim,
I tried that, but unless I'm just way off base, that method greatly
increases the amount of code that has to be maintained in the extension,
which increases the chance of compatability issues with future MediaWiki
versions.
I'd prefer to keep it as simple as possible.
Lisa Ridley
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Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2007 10:31:46 -0500
From: Jim Hu <jimhu(a)tamu.edu>
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Hook request for EditPage.php
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Can you just Hook at AlternateEdit and put your functionality in a
class that subclasses EditPage?
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Jim Hu
Associate Professor
Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics
2128 TAMU
Texas A&M Univ.
College Station, TX 77843-2128
979-862-4054
On Mar 3, 2007, at 8:39 AM, Lisa Ridley wrote:
I'd like to request a hook addition for
EditPage.php.
I'm working on some extensions to modify the user interface for the
edit
page in MediaWiki (specifically, to present the user with data form
fields in addition to the standard Mediawiki free-form edit box. The
information captured in the data fields will be saved in the article
created in a template format and displayed using a template
specific for
the data). EditPage.php has a hook at the very beginning of the
source
code; however, I'd like to leverage the existing code as much as
possible without having to use an "include" statement or recreate the
code in my extension. I'm currently modifying EditPage.php to place a
hook at the end of the EditPage::edit() function, right above this
line:
$this->showEditForm();
That is similar in function to the one at the beginning of the
function:
if ( ! wfRunHooks( 'AlternateEdit', array( &$this ) ) )
return;
but calling it 'AlternateEditForm' instead. It functions in a
similar
manner. This allows me to leverage the existing code in
EditPage:edit().
Ideally, I'd like to place this even further down, but I haven't
found a
better place for it yet.
If this could be formally added to the MediaWiki source code without
requiring users to modify it, that would be wonderful!
Thanks for your consideration .
Lisa Ridley
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