Manual:Skinning/Archive
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This page contains instructions on how to create a skin for MediaWiki.
Note: The term FooBar will be used as a placeholder for the newly-created skin's name.
(Notice the use of the uppercase FooBar
and the lowercase foobar
in different contexts.)
Note: There is also a more general walkthrough here.
File Locations
editAll skin files are located in the skins
subfolder of the MediaWiki installation directory (see $wgStylePath and $wgStyleDirectory for actual location.)
There are two files for each skin in that folder:
FooBar.php
: The main file, defining the page layout.FooBar.deps.php
: a workaround for a bug in the APC opcode cache on PHP 5
For all other files, a subfolder with the skin's name should be created - for example:
skins/foobar/main.css
: The FooBar skin's main style sheetskins/foobar/IE60Fixes.css
: browser-specific style sheet fixes
Code Structure and Elements
editThis section outlines the code structure of a typical MediaWiki skin.
The respective code portions have been extracted from MediaWiki's default MonoBook skin. For the full PHP code in its entirety, see /Vector/Example.
Dependencies
editThis section contains the dependency information about the skin to work around a caching bug in PHP 5.
<?php
/**
* [FooBar] skin dependencies
*/
if ( ! defined( 'MEDIAWIKI' ) )
die( 1 );
require_once( dirname( dirname( __FILE__ ) ) . '/includes/SkinTemplate.php');
Metadata
editThis section contains meta-information about the skin.
<?php
/**
* [FooBar] skin
*
* @file
* @ingroup Skins
* @version [#].[#].[#]
* @author [name] ([URL] / [E-Mail])
* @license [URL] [name]
*/
Initialization
editThis section sets up your skin to inherit from the main skin template class and shows the beginning of the template callback class. Here the required classes are defined. Instances of [FooBar]
and [foobar]
need to be replaced with the skin's name. Usually nothing else in this section needs to be altered.
// initialize
if( !defined( 'MEDIAWIKI' ) ){
die( "This is a skins file for mediawiki and should not be viewed directly.\n" );
}
// inherit main code from SkinTemplate, set the CSS and template filter
class Skin[FooBar] extends SkinTemplate {
var $useHeadElement = true;
function initPage( OutputPage $out ) {
parent::initPage( $out );
$this->skinname = '[foobar]';
$this->stylename = '[foobar]';
$this->template = '[FooBar]Template';
}
function setupSkinUserCss( OutputPage $out ) {
parent::setupSkinUserCss( $out );
// Append to the default screen common & print styles...
$out->addStyle( '[foobar]/main.css', 'screen' );
}
}
class [FooBar]Template extends QuickTemplate {
/**
* Template filter callback for this skin.
* Takes an associative array of data set from a SkinTemplate-based
* class, and a wrapper for MediaWiki's localization database, and
* outputs a formatted page.
*/
public function execute() {
global $wgRequest;
$skin = $this->data['skin'];
// suppress warnings to prevent notices about missing indexes in $this->data
wfSuppressWarnings();
$this->html( 'headelement' );
Page Elements
editThe following sections consist of page elements that your skin can use with an example usage. You can use page elements in whatever order you like or alter the way you use these elements. Elements presented below are in the order that the Monobook skin uses them.
[conditional]
<?php if( $this->data['sitenotice'] ) { ?><div id="siteNotice"><?php $this->html('sitenotice') ?></div><?php } ?>
Page Name
edit<h1 id="firstHeading"><?php $this->html('title'); ?></h1>
<div id="siteSub"><?php $this->msg('tagline') ?></div>
Page Subtitle
edit(e.g. redirect notice)
<div id="contentSub"><?php $this->html('subtitle') ?></div>
Undelete Notice
edit[conditional]
<?php if( $this->data['undelete'] ) { ?><div id="contentSub2"><?php $this->html('undelete') ?></div><?php } ?>
User-Messages Notification
edit[conditional]
<?php if( $this->data['newtalk'] ) { ?><div class="usermessage"><?php $this->html('newtalk') ?></div><?php } ?>
Jump-To Links
edit(intra-page navigation) [conditional], [optional]
<?php if( $this->data['showjumplinks'] ) { ?><div id="jump-to-nav"><?php $this->msg('jumpto') ?> <a href="#column-one"><?php $this->msg('jumptonavigation') ?></a>, <a href="#searchInput"><?php $this->msg('jumptosearch') ?></a></div><?php } ?>
Page Contents
edit<?php $this->html('bodytext') ?>
Category Links
edit[conditional]
<?php if( $this->data['catlinks'] ) { $this->html('catlinks'); } ?>
Page Toolbar
edit[iterative]
<div id="p-cactions" class="portlet">
<h5><?php $this->msg('views') ?></h5> <!-- Page Toolbar Label/Caption [optional] -->
<div class="pBody">
<ul><?php
foreach( $this->data['content_actions'] as $key => $tab ) {
echo '
<li id="', Sanitizer::escapeId( "ca-$key" ), '"';
if ( $tab['class'] ) {
echo ' class="', htmlspecialchars($tab['class']), '"';
}
echo '><a href="', htmlspecialchars($tab['href']), '"',
$skin->tooltipAndAccesskeyAttribs('ca-'.$key), '>',
htmlspecialchars($tab['text']),
'</a></li>';
}?>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
User Toolbar
edit[iterative]
<div class="portlet" id="p-personal">
<h5><?php $this->msg('personaltools') ?></h5> <!-- User Toolbar Label/Caption [optional] -->
<div class="pBody">
<ul>
<?php foreach( $this->data['personal_urls'] as $key => $item ) { ?>
<li id="<?php echo Sanitizer::escapeId( "pt-$key" ) ?>"<?php
if ($item['active']) { ?> class="active"<?php } ?>><a href="<?php
echo htmlspecialchars( $item['href'] ) ?>"<?php echo $skin->tooltipAndAccesskeyAttribs('pt-'.$key) ?><?php
if( !empty( $item['class'] ) ) { ?> class="<?php
echo htmlspecialchars( $item['class'] ) ?>"<?php } ?>><?php
echo htmlspecialchars( $item['text'] ) ?></a></li>
<?php } ?>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
Site Logo
edit<div class="portlet" id="p-logo">
<a href="<?php echo htmlspecialchars($this->data['nav_urls']['mainpage']['href']) ?>" <?php echo $skin->tooltipAndAccesskeyAttribs('n-mainpage') ?> >
<img src="<?php echo htmlspecialchars( $this->data['logopath'] ) ?>" border="0" />
</a>
</div>
<script type="<?php $this->text('jsmimetype') ?>"> if (window.isMSIE55) fixalpha(); </script> <!-- IE alpha-transparency fix -->
Sidebar Navigation
edit[iterative]
<?php foreach( $this->data['sidebar'] as $bar => $cont ) { ?>
<div class='portlet' id='p-<?php echo Sanitizer::escapeId( $bar ) ?>'<?php echo $skin->tooltip('p-'.$bar) ?>>
<h5><?php $out = wfMsg( $bar ); if( wfEmptyMsg( $bar, $out ) ) echo $bar; else echo $out; ?></h5>
<div class='pBody'>
<ul>
<?php foreach( $cont as $key => $val ) { ?>
<li id="<?php echo Sanitizer::escapeId( $val['id'] ) ?>"<?php
if( $val['active'] ) { ?> class="active" <?php }
?>><a href="<?php echo htmlspecialchars( $val['href'] ) ?>"<?php echo $skin->tooltipAndAccesskeyAttribs($val['id']) ?>><?php echo htmlspecialchars( $val['text'] ) ?></a></li>
<?php } ?>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<?php } ?>
Search
edit<div id="p-search" class="portlet">
<h5><label for="searchInput"><?php $this->msg('search') ?></label></h5>
<div id="searchBody" class="pBody">
<form action="<?php $this->text('searchaction') ?>" id="searchform"><div>
<input id="searchInput" name="search" type="text"<?php echo $skin->tooltipAndAccesskeyAttribs('search');
if( isset( $this->data['search'] ) ) {
?> value="<?php $this->text('search') ?>"<?php } ?> />
<input type='submit' name="go" class="searchButton" id="searchGoButton" value="<?php $this->msg('searcharticle') ?>"<?php echo $skin->tooltipAndAccesskeyAttribs( 'search-go' ); ?> />
<input type='submit' name="fulltext" class="searchButton" id="mw-searchButton" value="<?php $this->msg('searchbutton') ?>"<?php echo $skin->tooltipAndAccesskeyAttribs( 'search-fulltext' ); ?> />
</div></form>
</div>
</div>
Toolbox
edit <div class="portlet" id="p-tb">
<h5><?php $this->msg('toolbox') ?></h5>
<div class="pBody">
<ul>
<?php
if( $this->data['notspecialpage'] ) { ?>
<li id="t-whatlinkshere"><a href="<?php
echo htmlspecialchars($this->data['nav_urls']['whatlinkshere']['href'])
?>"<?php echo $skin->tooltipAndAccesskeyAttribs('t-whatlinkshere') ?>><?php $this->msg('whatlinkshere') ?></a></li>
<?php
if( $this->data['nav_urls']['recentchangeslinked'] ) { ?>
<li id="t-recentchangeslinked"><a href="<?php
echo htmlspecialchars($this->data['nav_urls']['recentchangeslinked']['href'])
?>"<?php echo $skin->tooltipAndAccesskeyAttribs('t-recentchangeslinked') ?>><?php $this->msg('recentchangeslinked') ?></a></li>
<?php }
}
if( isset( $this->data['nav_urls']['trackbacklink'] ) ) { ?>
<li id="t-trackbacklink"><a href="<?php
echo htmlspecialchars($this->data['nav_urls']['trackbacklink']['href'])
?>"<?php echo $skin->tooltipAndAccesskeyAttribs('t-trackbacklink') ?>><?php $this->msg('trackbacklink') ?></a></li>
<?php }
if( $this->data['feeds'] ) { ?>
<li id="feedlinks"><?php foreach($this->data['feeds'] as $key => $feed) {
?><span id="feed-<?php echo Sanitizer::escapeId($key) ?>"><a href="<?php
echo htmlspecialchars($feed['href']) ?>"<?php echo $skin->tooltipAndAccesskeyAttribs('feed-'.$key) ?>><?php echo htmlspecialchars($feed['text'])?></a> </span>
<?php } ?></li><?php
}
foreach( array( 'contributions', 'blockip', 'emailuser', 'upload', 'specialpages' ) as $special ) {
if( $this->data['nav_urls'][$special] ) {
?><li id="t-<?php echo $special ?>"><a href="<?php echo htmlspecialchars($this->data['nav_urls'][$special]['href'])
?>"<?php echo $skin->tooltipAndAccesskeyAttribs('t-'.$special) ?>><?php $this->msg($special) ?></a></li>
<?php }
}
if( !empty( $this->data['nav_urls']['print']['href'] ) ) { ?>
<li id="t-print"><a href="<?php echo htmlspecialchars($this->data['nav_urls']['print']['href'])
?>"<?php echo $skin->tooltipAndAccesskeyAttribs('t-print') ?>><?php $this->msg('printableversion') ?></a></li><?php
}
if( !empty( $this->data['nav_urls']['permalink']['href'] ) ) { ?>
<li id="t-permalink"><a href="<?php echo htmlspecialchars($this->data['nav_urls']['permalink']['href'])
?>"<?php echo $skin->tooltipAndAccesskeyAttribs('t-permalink') ?>><?php $this->msg('permalink') ?></a></li><?php
} elseif( $this->data['nav_urls']['permalink']['href'] === '' ) { ?>
<li id="t-ispermalink"<?php echo $skin->tooltip('t-ispermalink') ?>><?php $this->msg('permalink') ?></li><?php
}
wfRunHooks( 'SkinTemplateToolboxEnd', array( &$this ) );
?>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
Interlanguage Links
edit<?php if( $this->data['language_urls'] ) { ?>
<div id="p-lang" class="portlet">
<h5><?php $this->msg('otherlanguages') ?></h5>
<div class="pBody">
<ul>
<?php foreach( $this->data['language_urls'] as $langlink ) { ?>
<li class="<?php echo htmlspecialchars($langlink['class'])?>"><?php
?><a href="<?php echo htmlspecialchars($langlink['href']) ?>"><?php echo $langlink['text'] ?></a></li>
<?php } ?>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<?php } ?>
Footer
edit[iterative]
<div id="footer">
<?php
if ( $this->data['poweredbyico'] ) { ?>
<div id="f-poweredbyico"><?php $this->html('poweredbyico') ?></div>
<?php }
if ( $this->data['copyrightico'] ) { ?>
<div id="f-copyrightico"><?php $this->html('copyrightico') ?></div>
<?php }
// generate additional footer links
$footerlinks = array(
'lastmod', 'viewcount', 'numberofwatchingusers', 'credits', 'copyright',
'privacy', 'about', 'disclaimer', 'tagline',
);
?>
<ul id="f-list">
<?php
foreach ( $footerlinks as $aLink ) {
if ( isset( $this->data[$aLink] ) && $this->data[$aLink] ) {
?> <li id="<?php echo $aLink ?>"><?php $this->html( $aLink ) ?></li>
<?php }
}
?>
</ul>
</div>
Closing Trail
editThis last section simply closes any sections from above and usually does not need to be altered.
<!-- scripts and debugging information -->
<?php $this->html('bottomscripts'); /* JS call to runBodyOnloadHook */ ?>
<?php $this->html('reporttime') ?>
<?php if ( $this->data['debug'] ): ?>
<!-- Debug output:
<?php $this->text( 'debug' ); ?>
-->
<?php endif; ?>
</body>
</html>
<?php
wfRestoreWarnings();
} // end of execute() method
} // end of class
Example changes
editCategory List Fix
editThis is a fix for returning category links as a proper UL
element (instead of returning a mostly unordered string, which is the default behavior).
/* hijack category functions to create a proper list */
function getCategories() {
$catlinks = $this->getCategoryLinks();
if( !empty( $catlinks ) ) {
return "<ul id='catlinks'>{$catlinks}</ul>";
}
}
function getCategoryLinks() {
global $wgOut, $wgUseCategoryBrowser;
global $wgContLang;
if( count( $wgOut->mCategoryLinks ) == 0 )
return '';
# separator
$sep = '';
// use Unicode bidi embedding override characters,
// to make sure links don't smash each other up in ugly ways
$dir = $wgContLang->isRTL() ? 'rtl' : 'ltr';
$embed = "<li dir='$dir'>";
$pop = '</li>';
$t = $embed . implode( "{$pop} {$sep} {$embed}", $wgOut->mCategoryLinks ) . $pop;
$msg = wfMsgExt( 'pagecategories', array( 'parsemag', 'escape' ), count( $wgOut->mCategoryLinks ) );
$s = $this->makeLinkObj( Title::newFromText( wfMsgForContent( 'pagecategorieslink' ) ), $msg )
. $t;
# optional 'dmoz-like' category browser - will be shown under the list
# of categories an article belongs to
if( $wgUseCategoryBrowser ) {
$s .= '<br /><hr />';
# get a big array of the parents tree
$parenttree = $this->getTitle()->getParentCategoryTree();
# Skin object passed by reference because it can not be
# accessed under the method subfunction drawCategoryBrowser
$tempout = explode( "\n", $this->drawCategoryBrowser( $parenttree, $this ) );
# clean out bogus first entry and sort them
unset( $tempout[0] );
asort( $tempout );
# output one per line
$s .= implode( "<br />\n", $tempout );
}
return $s;
}
These functions need to be placed in the class that extends SkinTemplate in your template file. If you want to see the mediawiki versions of these functions, look for them in Skin.php.
See also
edit- Manual:Skins - MediaWiki skins in general
- Gallery of user styles - (non-official skins)
- Manual:Skinning/Vector - Extend Vector skin in MediaWiki 1.17
- Manual:Skinning/Tutorial
External
edit- MediaWiki Skins Design: Designing attractive skins and templates for your MediaWiki site by Richard Carter, ISBN 978-1847195203
- SiteGround Tutorial about MediaWiki Skins
- Creating a subskin for MediaWiki 1.18+ by Daniel Friesen under his employer Redwerks