[Mediawiki-l] problem with breaking out of frames JS using Short URLs???

[Richard Evans]

Hi,

In order to get an HTML "iframe" working in a custom skin I'm working on, 
I've disabled my MediaWiki's behavior of breaking out of frames using an 
equivalent act of adding "$wgBreakFrames=false;" in the LocalSettings file 
by simply modifying the /skins/common/wikibits.js file to comment out the 
code which checks for the parent frame (lines 65 & 66 in ver. 1.6.10) <- 
thanks Rob :-)

This works perfectly for long URLs which use the php post data to carry the 
article title

such as:     .../wiki/index.php?title=My_Title

but does NOT work with short URLs

such as:     ../wiki/index.php/My_Title

does anyone the mechanics of the "Short URL" programming well enough to help 
me come up with a solution that does not involve upgrading. I am stuck with 
1.6.10

please advise,
- rich (revansx)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rob Church" <robchur at gmail.com>
To: "MediaWiki announcements and site admin list" 
<mediawiki-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 2:03 PM
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] iframes problem in modified Monobook skin


> On 04/04/07, revansx at cox.net <revansx at cox.net> wrote:
>> I have modified my Monobook.php skin to include an "iframe" at the top 
>> (just above the article title). However, when I look at the page in my 
>> wiki, the wiki automatically goes to an article which is named what my 
>> iframe src= is pointed to. The iframe html code works fine in a page by 
>> itself. Can anyone help me understand why this is happening? ...and help 
>> me with a work around?
>
> The IFRAME source is a page on the wiki?
>
> If that's the case (it wasn't clear above), then this appears to be
> MediaWiki's behaviour of breaking out of frames. You can switch this
> off in newer versions of the software using $wgBreakFrames = false; in
> LocalSettings.php.
>
>
> Rob Church
>
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