[Mediawiki-l] MediaWiki-l Digest, Vol 42, Issue 6

[Lisa Ridley]

Jim,

I tried that, but unless I'm just way off base, that method greatly 
increases the amount of code that has to be maintained in the extension, 
which increases the chance of compatability issues with future MediaWiki 
versions.

I'd prefer to keep it as simple as possible.

Lisa Ridley
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> Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2007 10:31:46 -0500
> From: Jim Hu <jimhu at tamu.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Hook request for EditPage.php
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> Can you just Hook at AlternateEdit and put your functionality in a  
> class that subclasses EditPage?
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> On Mar 3, 2007, at 8:39 AM, Lisa Ridley wrote:
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>   
>> I'd like to request a hook addition for EditPage.php.
>>
>> I'm working on some extensions to modify the user interface for the  
>> edit
>> page in MediaWiki (specifically, to present the user with data form
>> fields in addition to the standard Mediawiki free-form edit box.  The
>> information captured in the data fields will be saved in the article
>> created in a template format and displayed using a template  
>> specific for
>> the data).  EditPage.php has a hook at the very beginning of the  
>> source
>> code; however, I'd like to leverage the existing code as much as
>> possible without having to use an "include" statement or recreate the
>> code in my extension.  I'm currently modifying EditPage.php to place a
>> hook at the end of the EditPage::edit() function, right above this  
>> line:
>>
>>        $this->showEditForm();
>>
>> That is similar in function to the one at the beginning of the  
>> function:
>>
>>        if ( ! wfRunHooks( 'AlternateEdit', array( &$this  ) ) )
>>            return;
>>
>> but calling it 'AlternateEditForm' instead.   It functions in a  
>> similar
>> manner.  This allows me to leverage the existing code in  
>> EditPage:edit().
>>
>> Ideally, I'd like to place this even further down, but I haven't  
>> found a
>> better place for it yet.
>>
>> If this could be formally added to the MediaWiki source code without
>> requiring users to modify it, that would be wonderful!
>>
>> Thanks for your consideration .
>>
>> Lisa Ridley
>>
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