[Mediawiki-l] CharInsert-extension problem

[Filip Maljkovic]

Birger wrote:
> Hello there,
>
> I tried to add to my wiki (Mediawiki version 1.6; PHP 5.1.2) the
> CharInsert-extension. I did the following:
>
> 1) Created a CharInsert.php-file in /extensions/CharInsert (copy-paste
> from http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/CharInsert/CharInsert.php)
> 2) Replaced the javascript-code from skins/common/wikibits.js with the
> javascript from
> http://en.wikipedia.org/skins-1.5/common/wikibits.js?1.
> 3) Changed Mediawiki:Edittools to put in the charinsert-tags and other
> wiki-code like in wikipedia in order to adapt the text beneith the
> edit-box and give users the possibility to easily add special
> characters. (I have to tell that in my wiki-setup,
> $wgUseDatabaseMessages = false;).
> 4) Added require_once("$IP/extensions/CharInsert/CharInsert.php"); to
> localsettings.php.
>
>
> ...unfortunately this returned a completely blank page, unless i
> changed "require_once" into "include" (as is suggested on other
> sites). Then the wiki was viewable again in the browser, but the
> CharInsert-stuff still didn't work. So i tried to put the textmessages
> with special characters into the copyrightwarning in messages.php (as
> is also suggested on some sites), but unfortunately the text is not
> parsed (the <charinsert>-tags are still there instead of being parsed).
>
> I really can't see what i am doing wrong here. Does anyone have any idea
> what should do the trick?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>   
It is possible that CharInsert is not backwards compatible anymore. In 
that case, you can either upgrade to 1.7.x (seeing as you have php5) or 
"downgrade" the extension (i.e. browse the SVN to find an earlier 
version). Hope that helps

Filip