* Noman <nomang(a)gmail.com> [Tue, 3 Aug 2010 10:04:47 +0500]:
Hi,
i've installed mediawiki for a wiki project.
now we have 4 sections on main page . like there are on wikipedia main
page.
Now as its done in wikipedia these 4 boxes are tables and update on
date
criteria.
Now i want to do is to give some kind a navigation bar like drop down
or
paging.
so when user selects page from drop down the all 4 pages are updated
with
relevant articles.
to clear more. how the for parts of table can be updated . and how to
put
combo box ( which is already filled with page numbers / article
topics)
and
which user selects any page from drop down all the 4 table rows are
updated.
any body help me .
im new to media wiki searched alot. but didnot get any thing. or
material or
example.
if i ve to made my extension then how ill write . means what is will
the
flow. how it will be pluged in the mediawiki and runs
smoothly
any article example. e-book from where i can read step by step.
The simpliest (although not the prettiest) way is to use a set of
iframes and to load their src from select option value onchange event
handler:
http://lab.artlung.com/dropdown/
scroll down to "Dropdown Navigation to iFrame" example. One might choose
to pass "&printable=yes" to not recusrively include menus and user
interface into iframes.
Although I am not sure that iframe is not stripped by parser.
The harder (yet more proper) way would be to develop an extension which
will load the content of selected pages into div's via API AJAX calls. I
don't know whether such extension already exists.
Dmitriy