You could probably make a template like
[[{{#include:index|prev-{{{PAGENAME}}}}}|Prev]]
[[{{#include:index|next-{{{PAGENAME}}}}}|Next]]
Then supress the links at the end by making the first & last pages link back to
themselves,
and avoid duplicate names by indexing the name in multiple sections, i.e.
<section begin="next-First Page"/><section begin="prev-Third
Page"/>Second Page....
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Labeled_Section_Transclusion
On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 23:10:55 +0200, Jean-Marc van Leerdam wrote:
Hi,
I have been trying to create a maintainable way of grouping pages together
and allowing readers to page through them in sequence. Most samples I've
seen use templates that require you to supply the 'previous' and 'next'
page. This however results in three page edits to insert a new page
between two existing pages and does not guarantee that your prev-sequence
is identical to the next-sequence...
Being a programmer, that is way too much duplicate and error-prone work
for me ;-) There must be a better way to do this and I was hoping to solve
it with a plain MW installation (with ParserFunctions and DynamicPageList
at the moment).
Given an 'index' page that holds a list of all page titles in the
preferred order, isn't it possible to create a template that selects the
correct previous and next page title given the current page title?
I get stuck in getting the correct lines from the index page. DPL can
select based on section name (= page title), but then the contents of that
index section must be the prev/next links themselves:
=First Page=
Prev [[Second Page|Next]]
=Second Page=
[[First Page|Prev]] [[Third Page|Next]] =Third Page=
.. etc.
This works, except that it is still a lot of duplication of page names
(but the edits are contained in a single page, big plus).
I hoped to simplify the index page by creating a template that writes the
section header and prev/next links, but then DPL no longer recognizes the
sections :-( Apparently DPL 'sees' the page text before the templates are
called ({{Page|Prev page|Page title|Next page}}:
{{Page||First Page|Second Page}}
{{Page|First Page|Second Page|Third Page}} {{Page|Second Page|Third
Page|Fourth Page}}
Basically my questions are:
1. Am I completely off track here?
2. Can DPL be coerced to evaluate templates before looking at the page 3.
Can DPL (or another extension) select the text from a section before/after
a matched section?
4. Is it possible to determine the section sequence number given the
section name (so 'Second Page' results in 2, allowing me to use DPL to
retrieve the name of section 2 -/- 1 and 2 + 1 to create the prev/next
links?
Apologies for the long post, hopefully someone can point me to some good
resources (I've been to Meta, Wikibooks,
Medawiki.org but could very well
have overlooked something there as the amount of info is a bit
overwhelming and it is difficult to judge how up to date it is).