User:Proactive programming/Extension tutorial part 1

Welcome to the MediaWiki Extension tutorial. In this tutorial, you will learn how to make a basic extension without a special page. Creation of special pages and creating SQL tables will be covered in later tutorials.

Extension Title

Extension: PageInfoDeluxe

Extension Purpose

Purpose: To set and get several variables that will be stored on the page PageInformation page.

Technial Details

Technical Details: These variables are stored in the SQL table mw_page_props.

variable	gui title	Description
displaytitle	Display_title	the Pretty version of an article
page_image_free	Page_image	the featured image
short_desc	Local_description	the short description the appears in search results
summary	summary	Summary text that will appear in popup boxes.

Source code file tree

• PageInfoDeluxe/i18n/ -- stores language message strings
  • PageInfoDeluxe/i18n/en.json
• PageInfoDeluxe/includes/ -- stores the php files.
  • PageInfoDeluxe/includes/ApiQueryPageInfoDeluxe.php
  • PageInfoDeluxe/includes/PageInfoDeluxe.php
  • PageInfoDeluxe/includes/PageInfoDeluxe.class.php
  • PageInfoDeluxe/includes/PageInfoDeluxe.hooks.php
  • PageInfoDeluxe/includes/PageInfoDeluxe.settings.php
  • PageInfoDeluxe/includes/PageInfoDeluxe.db.php
  • PageInfoDeluxe/includes/PageInfoDeluxe.i18n.magic.php
• PageInfoDeluxe/resources/ -- stores resources like images, css, and js files
  • PageInfoDeluxe/resources/ext.PageInfoDeluxe.css
  • PageInfoDeluxe/resources/ext.PageInfoDeluxe.js
• PageInfoDeluxe/extension.json