Thanks Greg, I think I understand. Can you take a peek at this and tell me if you see any glaring issues: $wgMyDivHTML = "<div class=MyTopLeftDiv><a id=MyTopLeftDivLink>text</div>"; $wgMyTopLeftDivFn = new MyTopLeftDivFn(); $wgHooks['OutputPageBeforeHTML'][] = $wgMyTopLeftDivFn; class MyTopLeftDivFn { public function onOutputPageBeforeHTML( OutputPage &$out, &$text ) { global $wgMyDIvHTML; $text = strtr( $text, $wgMyDivHTML ); return $out; } } _______________________________________ From: MediaWiki-l [mediawiki-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org] on behalf of Greg Rundlett (freephile) [greg(a)freephile.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2018 2:21 PM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] help with hook in localsettings Hi Rich, I'm not a hook expert, so not sure about this. But, the https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Hooks/OutputPageBeforeHTML manual shows that it acts on both $out and $text. Furthermore, the talk page says that using the first could lead to an infinite loop, so I'd suggest using $text for the '...tbd... There's also an example in the talk page. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual_talk:Hooks/OutputPageBeforeHTML Greg Rundlett https://eQuality-Tech.com https://freephile.org _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l