On 25/05/05, Crit Van Tuyl critster@gmail.com wrote:

What I am trying to do is add website info from Alexa Internet (traffic button) for the Template "Company_Info".

I do know my users and my intention is to only allow Admins the ability to add it. I did read a little on the extensions today. Not sure how it works yet. Any guidance or suggestions are welcome.

Only letting Admins add particular content is probably not going to work with the editting model of MediaWiki. People have thought before of only allowing such code to operate on protected pages, but this presents problems like someone tricking an admin into protecting a page which already has such content, or someone taking advantage of the template inclusion mechanism to manipulate the content of a protected page, etc.

Since you have a single specific purpose in mind, I strongly suggest that you use the extension approach, similar to the charInsert code I linked to in my last message - it should be far easier anyway. If you made it set a hook for the tag "alexa", and made the output something along the lines of "<script type='yadayada'>getAlexaInfo('$data')</script>" (obviously, "getAlexaInfo()" would be a JavaScript function defined in a site-wide file such as wikibits.js or the [[MediaWiki:monobook.js]] page), then users could simply type "<alexa>Company name</alexa>" anywhere they liked.

So based on CharInsert, the extension file (which you just "include()" in your LocalSettings.php file) could look something like the following: ----

if( !defined( 'MEDIAWIKI' ) ) { die(); }

$wgExtensionFunctions[] = 'setupAlexaJS';

function setupAlexaJS() { global $wgParser; $wgParser->setHook( 'alexa', 'insertAlexaJS' ); }

function insertAlexaJS($data) { # you'd want to add some "sanitizing" of the string passed in $data here # to make sure users couldn't trick their way into inserting arbitrary JavaScript # i.e. escape or remove anything that's not just plain text in JS's eyes return "<script type='yadayada'>getAlexaInfo('$data')</script>"; }

Hope this all makes sense!