Extension:Dynamic Category Map
From MediaWiki.org
 Release status: unknown |
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| Implementation | Tag |
| Description | provide add-on navigation ability across the whole site |
| MediaWiki | 1.5 |
| License | No license specified |
| Download | see below |
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check usage (experimental) |
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Contents |
[edit] Introduction
DynamicCategoryMap is a Mediawiki 1.5 extension. It is designed to provide add-on navigation ability across the whole site. It will list all categories of the first two levels (top categories with their children) dynamically and arrange their output in a user-friendly manner. Follow links of each category in the map, user could easily find all articles and sub-categories in it.
This extension is written with the help from Dynamic Page List.
[edit] Prerequisite
- PHP 5 or above is needed.
[edit] Installation
- Follow the links below to download source code.
- Copy the contents in pdf out, and create corresponding php source files.
- Copy DynamicCategoryMap.php to "extensions" folder.
- Copy CategoryTravelerBase.php , CategoryNode.php , CategoryMap.php to "includes" folder.
- Add a line require_once( "extensions/DynamicCategoryMap.php" ); into "LocalSettings.php".
[edit] Usage
[edit] Tag and its Parameters
| Tag Name | DynamicCategoryMap | |
| Parameters | title (optional) | Title of the output category map |
Note: the only parameter of Dynamic Category Map is "title", which could be omitted.
[edit] Samples
A sample snapshot of Dynamic Category Map is shown below.
m:Image:Sample Dynamic Category Map.png
The underlaying wiki codes are:
<DynamicCategoryMap> title=Find Information in the Topic Categories </DynamicCategoryMap>
