[Mediawiki-l] TableEdit version 0.2

[Dave Sigafoos]

Jim,

Great hack.  I just saw this and it is a very nice move towards "inline
editing" of a page.

I am new to MW so please excuse me if this is a stupid question, but why
are you storing data external to the page?  It seems to me that this
would be fraught with peril.

We could discuss this on your discussion page if you would like.

THanks


DSig
David Tod Sigafoos | SANMAR Corporation

 


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[mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Jim Hu
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 21:14
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Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] TableEdit version 0.2

As I get ready for version 0.3, I realized that there is a  
potentially serious problem for users of my TableEdit extension (hey,  
I did mark it as experimental!!).  The problem is related to  
exporting and importing dumps.

While tables will be preserved when importing a dump from a wiki that  
uses TableEdit, when a user tries to click on the Edit link, bad  
things are likely to happen.  In the best case, the recipient wiki  
will not have TableEdit installed and there will just be a 404  
error.  If TableEdit is installed, the most likely outcome is that  
the box_id and pagename will not match what is stored in the database  
and TableEdit will refuse to do the edit on the imported page.

  This is because TableEdit stores box and row information in an  
external database and marks the position of the table in each page  
with comments <!--box id=N--> where N is the primary key in the box  
table of the wikibox_db external database.  The box table also stores  
the page_title and namespace, and checks that the page sending the  
edit request is the original home of the box.  Hmm...on reflection  
this means that moving the page will break it too.  I think I can fix  
that by following redirects and revising the database on the next  
save.  But the imported page problem has me stumped.

Suggestions for how to solve this are welcomed!

Jim

On Apr 6, 2007, at 4:29 PM, Jim Hu wrote:

> Version 0.2 (still experimental!!) of my Table Editing extension is
> now available
>
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:TableEdit
>
> For those who missed 0.1, TableEdit lets you put a tag in a wiki
> page, which is saved as a "Create Table Here" link to a Special page,
> where the user can use forms to build a table without worrying about
> wiki markup.  The tables that are put back in the wiki page have an
> Edit link that allows you to load the table back into the Special
> page for further editing.
>
> Changes:
> * Now uses $_SESSION for persistence prior to saving to the database
> instead of cluttering the page itself with serialized data.
> * Schema change to support edit conflict handling
> * Rudimentary edit conflict handling
> * Now allows you to rotate the table to switch headings to be either
> on top or on the left.
> * You can start with a table in either orientation by using
> <newTableEdit/> for headings on top or <newVTableEdit/> for headings
> on the side.
> * Various bug fixes...more probably introduced in the process.
>
> Works for me on MW 1.83 and MW 1.93 on MacOSX with the entropy (Marc
> Liyanage) php5.1.2 and MySQL 4.026 or MySQL 5.0.24-standard.
> Presumably works on other setups.
> =====================================
> Jim Hu
> Associate Professor
> Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics
> 2128 TAMU
> Texas A&M Univ.
> College Station, TX 77843-2128
> 979-862-4054
>
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Jim Hu
Associate Professor
Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics
2128 TAMU
Texas A&M Univ.
College Station, TX 77843-2128
979-862-4054