Re: [Wikitech-l] Message system based HTML snippets

Right now we are about to implement some kind of basic template Engine to share HTML on the server side as well as on the client side in JavaScript. Basically this will be a bunch of HTML snippets which we will put into a resource loader module and send to the client. The snippets will need some kind of placeholder which can then be replaced with different content. The replacement would be done by some basic parser which had to be implemented in PHP as well as JS. One thought was to simply use the MW message system for this. The templates would of course get their own store, but the message parser could perhaps be reused. $1 etc. could be used as placeholders and even nice-to-haves such as PLURAL or {{int:}} would work out of the box. From a first look, it could be as easy as overwriting Message::fetchMessage in as subclass. Off course it had to be taken care of the JavaScript side as well. Doesn't seem like mw.Message would be a problem. Any thoughts on this or does anyone know about some similar implementation in any extensions? Cheers, Daniel -- Daniel Werner Software Engineer Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Obentrautstr. 72 | 10963 Berlin Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0 http://wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.