User:Egingell/Uber Sidebar

Description

• Add dynamic content to the sidebar. This is not really an extension, it's more of a replacement.

Change Log

• Special pages produced an error when attempting to fetch the User's Sidebar. This has been fixed.

Features

• Dynamic User Links
  • Pulls sidebar formatted data from User:{username}/Sidebar and adds it to the sidebar.
• Namespace Based Links
  • Pulls sidebar formatted data from MediaWiki:Sidebar{namespace number} and adds it to the sidebar.
• Category Links
  • Adds "Category" section complete with links to the article's categories.
• Category Page Links
  • Adds "Sub Categories", "Articles in Category", and "Images in Category" sections complete with their respective content.
• Sorting
  • Sorts sections alphabetically (leaving the first section always first).
  • Sorts links alphabetically.
• Conditionals
  • use the following to create conditionals base on permissions in $wgGroupPermissions:
    • Note: Quotation marks (") in {section header or target}(|{text}) will kill the statement. Use MediaWiki:{msg} whenever you need to use them.

*(*) if ? ({permission type}) "{section header or target}(|{text})" ?

example (only show a link to MediaWiki:Sidebar if the user can edit the interface):

** if ? (editinterface) "MediaWiki:Sidebar|Sidebar" ?

Instructions

• Edit includes/Skin.php

Change

<?php
if ( ! defined( 'MEDIAWIKI' ) )
    die( 1 );

to

<?php
if ( ! defined( 'MEDIAWIKI' ) )
    die( 1 );

// Use a modded version of the Skin class
if (is_file('includes/LocalSkin.php')) {
    $localSkin = 'includes/LocalSkin.php';
} else if (is_file('LocalSkin.php')) {
    $localSkin = 'LocalSkin.php';
}
if ($localSkin) {
    require_once($localSkin);
    return;
}

• Create a new file called LocalSkin.php and place it in either the "includes" directory or in the top level directory (next to LocalSettings.php).
• Copy and paste the entire contents of my LocalSkin.php into your LocalSkin.php and save.
  • Note: Might be easier just to "edit" the page and Ctrl-A/Ctrl-C the edit box which is why I put it in a separate page (User:Egingell/Uber_Sidebar/LocalSkin.php).

See Also

• My local includes/Skin.php
• My local LocalSkin.php
• See it in Action

TALK Known Issues There are no known issues at this time. --Egingell (talk) 12:42, 4 August 2007 (UTC)