Hello there,
I tried to add to my wiki (Mediawiki version 1.6; PHP 5.1.2) the
CharInsert-extension. I did the following:
1) Created a CharInsert.php-file in /extensions/CharInsert (copy-paste
from
http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/CharInsert/CharI…)
2) Replaced the javascript-code from skins/common/wikibits.js with the
javascript from
http://en.wikipedia.org/skins-1.5/common/wikibits.js?1.
3) Changed Mediawiki:Edittools to put in the charinsert-tags and other
wiki-code like in wikipedia in order to adapt the text beneith the
edit-box and give users the possibility to easily add special
characters. (I have to tell that in my wiki-setup,
$wgUseDatabaseMessages = false;).
4) Added require_once("$IP/extensions/CharInsert/CharInsert.php"); to
localsettings.php.
...unfortunately this returned a completely blank page, unless i
changed "require_once" into "include" (as is suggested on other
sites). Then the wiki was viewable again in the browser, but the
CharInsert-stuff still didn't work. So i tried to put the textmessages
with special characters into the copyrightwarning in messages.php (as
is also suggested on some sites), but unfortunately the text is not
parsed (the <charinsert>-tags are still there instead of being parsed).
I really can't see what i am doing wrong here. Does anyone have any idea
what should do the trick?
Thanks in advance!
It is possible that CharInsert is not backwards compatible anymore. In
that case, you can either upgrade to 1.7.x (seeing as you have php5) or
"downgrade" the extension (i.e. browse the SVN to find an earlier
version). Hope that helps
Filip