On 23/09/05, Tim Starling t.starling@physics.unimelb.edu.au wrote:
solution used in the MediaWiki API is to use the Title::getFullURL() function. Accordingly, I've implemented an interface to this function, {{fullurl:}}. So instead of the above, you can use:
I've updated http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Variable to mention this new variable; ugly page, but it might as well be up to date ish ;) [It might be an idea to mention which versions this works on; have you only committed it to head, or will it work on updates to 1.5 or 1.4 as well?]
For completeness, I also implemented {{fullurle:}}, but it has no practical applications that I can think of. Please use {{fullurl:}} and {{localurl:}} in wikitext, not the escaped counterparts. Escaped URLs only work in wikitext because of an ugly backwards-compatibility hack.
I've tried to mention this in the Help page too, because people have been wondering about it.
-- Rowan Collins BSc [IMSoP]