Extension:HideCategorizedOrphans

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HideCategorizedOrphans
Release status: unmaintained
Implementation MyWiki
Description Makes MediaWiki consider pages that belong to a category not be orphans
Author(s) Steven Orvis (Sorvistalk)
Latest version 0.2.0 (2014-06-09)
MediaWiki 1.23+
PHP 5.3+
Database changes No
License GNU General Public License 2.0 or later
Download See the code section

The HideCategorizedOrphans extension makes MediaWiki consider pages that belong to a category not be orphans. This is useful if you want to link to a category off of a page, but the links to that individual page show up nowhere else.

Installation edit

  • Copy the code into files and place the file(s) in a directory called HideCategorizedOrphans in your extensions/ folder.
  • Add the following code at the bottom of your LocalSettings.php file:
    require_once "$IP/extensions/HideCategorizedOrphans/HideCategorizedOrphans.php";
    
  •   Done – Navigate to Special:Version on your wiki to verify that the extension is successfully installed.

Code edit

HideCategorizedOrphans.php
<?php
/**
 * HideCategoizedOrphans extension
 *
 * For more info see https://mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:HideCategorizedOrphans
 *
 * @file
 * @ingroup Extensions
 * @author Steven Orvis, 2014
 * @license GNU General Public Licence 2.0 or later
 */

$wgExtensionCredits['other'][] = array(
        'path' => __FILE__,
        'name' => 'HideCategorizedOrphans',
        'author' => array(
                'Steven Orvis',
        ),
        'version'  => '0.2.0',
        'url' => 'https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:HideCategorizedOrphans',
        'descriptionmsg' => 'Hides orphaned pages that belong to a category',
);

/* Setup */

// Register files
$wgAutoloadClasses['HideCategorizedOrphansHooks'] = __DIR__ . '/HideCategorizedOrphans.hooks.php';

// Register hooks
$wgHooks['LonelyPagesQuery'][] = 'HideCategorizedOrphansHooks::onLonelyPagesQuery';


HideCategorizedOrphans.hooks.php
<?php
/**
 * Hooks for HideCategorizedOrphans extension
 *
 * @file
 * @ingroup Extensions
 */

class HideCategorizedOrphansHooks {

        /**
         * Add condition to LonelyPagesQuery to hide pages in categories
         */
        public static function onLonelyPagesQuery( &$tables, &$conds, &$joinConds) {
                $joinConds['categorylinks'] = array(
                        'LEFT JOIN', array(
                                'cl_from = page_id'
                        )
                );

                $tables[] = 'categorylinks';

                $conds[] = 'cl_from is null';
                return true;
        }
}