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/CharIn...) 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!
Kind regards, Birger