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* $title: the Title object of the wiki page
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* $text: the text that the link should display (text between the <a> tags)
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== How to control the browse page ==
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Using DynamicPageList2 (DPL):
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* http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:DynamicPageList

Revision as of 21:24, 4 July 2007

Because MediaWiki's documentation is very sparse and scattered it may be hard to handle sometimes. This page is intended for additional function documentation and short howto's on problems that took you a while to find a solution for. Please put them here, so we don't run into them twice.

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Resources

Some useful global variables

  • $wgSkin: the currently used skin
    • Use:
      • Get link objects
  • $wgUser: the current user
    • Use:
      • Get local time/date

Creating a link to a wiki page

Use the function Skin::makeKnownLinkObj(Title $title, String $text):

  • $title: the Title object of the wiki page
  • $text: the text that the link should display (text between the <a> tags)

How to control the browse page

Using DynamicPageList2 (DPL):

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