Re: [Mediawiki-l] {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} minus one - MediaWiki-l

Joshua Yeidel

15 Mar 15 Mar

10:38 p.m.

New subject: [Mediawiki-l] {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} minus one

I just found a way to compute the correct string in PHP. I don't know how to make it available as a "magic word". I looked at the "meta" site and the code, but I didn't find an easy solution. It is possible that a solution could come from the world of templates -- I'm not an expert, but it seems doable. For example, you could have an array that is indexed by {{CURRENTMONTH}} which gives the previous month's name. En.wikipedia.org has a DAYSUNTILSUNDAY template that might prove instructive. It does a lookup into an array that returns a string based on the day of the week. Yours would return a string based on the month number. You will also need to have (or add) Template:array from wikipedia to your wiki. That's about all I can do on this now. Perhaps someone else can add. -- Joshua On 3/15/06 2:38 AM, "Bierens,Gerard G.J.M." <G.Bierens(a)fontys.nl> wrote:

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Hello Joshua, That makes sense to me, but where do I add this code? -- Gerard Joshua Yeidel yeidel at wsu.edu <mailto:mediawiki-l%40Wikimedia.org?Subject=%5BMediawiki-l%5D%20%7B%7BCU RRENTMONTHNAME%7D%7D%20minus%20one&In-Reply-To=399E1B1730511340ACC9D56B8 48CFF652443D4%40KOOTENAY.medewerker.fontys.local> Sat Mar 11 02:23:17 UTC 2006 Try: $lastmonthname = date("F", mktime(0, 0, 0, date("m")-1, date("d"), date("Y"))); It may depend on your version of PHP; there have been changes to date/time functions, some of which are documented at: http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php <http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php> -- Joshua On 3/10/06 3:37 AM, "Bierens,Gerard G.J.M." <G.Bierens at fontys.nl <http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l> > wrote:

Just like {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} would give 'March', is it possible to automatically get the previous month? Thanks, Gerard

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Joshua Yeidel

12:45 a.m.

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This is a nice straightforward solution, especially since the range is limited to 12. That "array" template stuff I mentioned earlier in the thread can be mind-boggling. jj On 3/15/06 2:27 PM, "Rick DeNatale" <rick.denatale(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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On 3/15/06, Joshua Yeidel <yeidel(a)wsu.edu> wrote:

I just found a way to compute the correct string in PHP. I don't know how to make it available as a "magic word". I looked at the "meta" site and the code, but I didn't find an easy solution. It is possible that a solution could come from the world of templates -- I'm not an expert, but it seems doable. For example, you could have an array that is indexed by {{CURRENTMONTH}} which gives the previous month's name.

I do something similar on my wiki to provide an on-this-date feature on the home page. I've got a family of history templates with a master which has 366 template subpages for each day of the year. Adapting what I do to get a last month template would look something like this: 1st make a template called say LastMonth Template:LastMonth {{LastMonth/{{CURRENTMONTHNAME}}}} Then make 12 templates Template:LastMonth/January December Template:LastMonth/February January ... Template:LastMonth/December November voila! -- Rick DeNatale Visit the Project Mercury Wiki Site http://www.mercuryspacecraft.com/ _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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Hans Voss

12:02 p.m.

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You mean this is 'build in' into the calendar template? And here I was, hacking up your code to generate something similar (display "next week"). Darn. On 3/16/06, Christof Damian <christof(a)damian.net> wrote:

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You could also use my calendar extension: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Cdamian/calendar It allows to include pages based on dates. For example: == Last Month == <calendar> view=today date="-1 month" format="Calendar/%n.%Y" </calendar> == On this day == <calendar> view=today date="-1 month" format="Calendar/%j.%n" </calendar> It doesn't fit for every case, but have a look at the examples to see what is possible. christof On Wed, 15 Mar 2006, Rick DeNatale wrote:

On 3/15/06, Joshua Yeidel <yeidel(a)wsu.edu> wrote:

I just found a way to compute the correct string in PHP. I don't know how to make it available as a "magic word". I looked at the "meta" site and the code, but I didn't find an easy solution. It is possible that a solution could come from the world of templates -- I'm not an expert, but it seems doable. For example, you could have an array that is indexed by {{CURRENTMONTH}} which gives the previous month's name.

I do something similar on my wiki to provide an on-this-date feature on the home page. I've got a family of history templates with a master which has 366 template subpages for each day of the year. Adapting what I do to get a last month template would look something like this: 1st make a template called say LastMonth Template:LastMonth {{LastMonth/{{CURRENTMONTHNAME}}}} Then make 12 templates Template:LastMonth/January December Template:LastMonth/February January ... Template:LastMonth/December November voila!

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Hans Voss

17 Mar 17 Mar

12:12 p.m.

New subject: [Mediawiki-l] {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} minus one

Just goes to show that I never programmed PHP before that little hack I made in your extenstion. We live and learn :-) Thanks. On 3/16/06, Christof Damian <christof(a)damian.net> wrote:

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On Thu, 16 Mar 2006, Hans Voss wrote:

You mean this is 'build in' into the calendar template? And here I was, hacking up your code to generate something similar (display "next week"). Darn.

Well, I am just using the strtotime function for the calendar extension. So you can just use: <calendar> view=week date="next week" format="Sandbox/%j.%n.%Y" </calendar> or similar. Thats in the code since the 15.9.2005 version :-) christof -- Christof Damian christof(a)damian.net _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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