[Mediawiki-l] Adding onLoad scripts to a page

Tue Apr 1 23:42:26 UTC 2008

Hey, Mediawiki folks....

So I have what I think is a very simple problem that I can't quite figure
out. If anybody could help me, that'd be great.

I'd like to add a little bit of JavaScript to my wiki pages. Let's assume
I'm an idiot and want to include a pop-up alert every time somebody visits a
page.

I see that one way of doing this is to just edit my MonoBook.php file so
that I can add an "onLoad" function to my <body> tag. Something like this...

<body <?php if($this->data['body_ondblclick']) { ?>ondblclick="<?php
$this->text('body_ondblclick') ?>"<?php } ?>
<?php if($this->data['body_onload'    ]) { ?>onload="<?php
$this->text('body_onload')     ?>"<?php } ?>
 class="mediawiki <?php $this->text('nsclass') ?> <?php $this->text('dir')
?> <?php $this->text('pageclass') ?>"

onLoad = "alert('Hello world!');"

>

But this clearly doesn't seem like the right thing to do.

If I'm reading the code above it correctly, it looks like we've got a script
that's looking for any values associated with the "body_onload" key in an
associative array called "data". So it seems like the right thing to do is
to somehow add my awesome alert code into this array, but I can't figure out
how or where to do that, or if there's something else I should be doing
instead.

Can anybody help me out here?

--T

P.S. Yes, I know I should really be copying over the MonoSkin into a
separate skin so that everything doesn't get overwritten when I upgrade the
wiki. Just ignore that for now.