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Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 10:18:25 -0800
From: Jan Steinman <Jan(a)Bytesmiths.com>
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Re: Forcing template
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On 11 Mar 2005, at 10:18, Jan Steinman wrote:
I want to be
able to populate a page with different template texts.
If you mean the same URL with different texts at different times,
you're gonna run up against the "cache problem".
Thankfully, that is not my worry. I'm just trying to reduce some
typing. I need to let my users pick and choose which template
information to add.
> I'm using MediaWiki 1.4rc1. I see in
EditPage.php a function
called
> getEditToolbar(), that then has an array of
toolbar buttons.
>
> Question 1: would this be the best/correct place to add my template
> text?
I probably could have phrased that question better. I wonder if there
is another place where I would put my customization, instead of manually
editing the EditPage.php file. I assume that when the next version of
MediaWiki comes out, it won't merge the changes I made, it will just
replace my custom EditPage.php with the standard one. If there is a
place where I could place a file to be included, then my customization
wouldn't necessarily get wiped out with the next upgrade.
At least on Safari using 1.4 beta 5, the edit tool bar
*does not* put
the text in the edit box at the insertion point; it
puts it in the
little field above that, which you then have to copy-n-paste.
Cumbersome. It would be nicer if it could plop it at the insertion
point. (I have not seen this mentioned in the release notes for newer
versions; apologies if it's been fixed.)
> Question 2: Is it possible to get those edit buttons to prompt the
user
for data?
That's what the current buttons do -- did you try copying and
modifying
their code?
I did try copying and modifying the code - but only so far as to add a
new button and plop in the template text. That part works well enough.
I do not know how one would spawn a new screen at the moment, which
could prompt for particular pieces of data. If that part is too
complicated, I'll forego it, but if it isn't too hard, I would be happy
to try to learn it.
Thanks!
David Gerisch
<snip>
:::: We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our
house for fuel when we should be using nature's inexhaustible sources
of energy - sun, wind and tide. I'd put my money on the sun and solar
energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil
and coal run out before we tackle that.
-- Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)
:::: Jan Steinman <mailto:Jan@Bytesmiths.com/Item/80BF02>