[Mediawiki-l] {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} minus one

[Joshua Yeidel]

This is a nice straightforward solution, especially since the range is
limited to 12.  That "array" template stuff I mentioned earlier in the
thread can be mind-boggling.

jj


On 3/15/06 2:27 PM, "Rick DeNatale" <rick.denatale at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 3/15/06, Joshua Yeidel <yeidel at wsu.edu> wrote:
>> I just found a way to compute the correct string in PHP.  I don't know how
>> to make it available as a "magic word".  I looked at the "meta" site and the
>> code, but I didn't find an easy solution.
>> 
>> It is possible that a solution could come from the world of templates -- I'm
>> not an expert, but it seems doable.  For example, you could have an array
>> that is indexed by {{CURRENTMONTH}} which gives the previous month's name.
> 
> I do something similar on my wiki to provide an on-this-date feature
> on the home page.  I've got a family of history templates with a
> master which has 366 template subpages for each day of the year.
> 
> Adapting what I do to get a last month template would look something like
> this:
> 
> 1st make a template called say LastMonth
> Template:LastMonth
> {{LastMonth/{{CURRENTMONTHNAME}}}}
> 
> Then make 12 templates
> 
> Template:LastMonth/January
> December
> 
> Template:LastMonth/February
> January
> 
> ...
> 
> Template:LastMonth/December
> November
> 
> voila!
> 
> 
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> Rick DeNatale
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