I will try the last possibility i guess. That seems to be the easiest to me right now. And also am doing these changes on a local wiki so i guess it should be fine.

Thanks a lot!. Will try it out.

Amruta

Quoting Ashar Voultoiz hashar@altern.org:

Amruta Lonkar wrote:

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I have written a page in extensions, that will enable a user to add

reference

...

information. However now i want to call this page in such a way that when a user is writing a new article at that time he can click on either a button like the ones located above the existing text editor which will call that page. I am trying to do this on my local wiki. Does anybody know how this

can

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be done?. Does anybody know what might be any other way to do it

Hello,

Three possibilities:

1/ The text editor buttons are in a <div id='toolbar'> so you can probably make a javascript that add new buttons.

-> might be a bit of troubles if you dont know javascript (like me)

2/ We could also add a hook so extensions can add new buttons easily (read without javascript hacking).

-> need a developer to add hooks and make them available in next 1.5. But it is in Release Candidate status and I dont think we add any new features in that branch. Might be for 1.6 (march-april 2006?).

3/ You can hack the source code: the function that build the editing toolbar is in ./include/EditPage.php , method getEditToolbar() .

-> it is the fastest way for you, but you will have to keep a patch of your changes for futures upgrades.

Maybe Avar can add the hooks, I am sure he likes them :p

cheers,

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I am still a little confused. I went through the getEditToolbar() method. From what i understand the buttons in this tool bar will add the appropriate tags when inserting/writing an article. What i was hoping to do was, when a user clicks on the button associated with references, it will pull up the page i have created in extensions. This is just a form where the user can enter relevant information related to a reference.

Ashar could you tell me how i should go about doing this. I am just a beginner so am stuck on these little things.

thanks, Amruta

Quoting Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason avarab@gmail.com:

On 10/5/05, Ashar Voultoiz hashar@altern.org wrote:

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Maybe Avar can add the hooks, I am sure he likes them :p

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