Extension:Guestbook
 Release status: stable |
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| Implementation | Special page |
| Description | Adds a guestbook as a specialpage. |
| Author(s) | Tino Reichardt |
| Last version | 0.13a (2009-07-23) |
| MediaWiki | >=1.6.0 |
| License | No license specified |
| Download | gbook.tar.bz2 README |
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Check usage (experimental) |
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Contents |
Overview
This MediaWiki extension adds a guestbook to your wiki installation.
It uses the following user preferences:
- language of currently logged in user
- German and English are currently supported
- the guestbook entry count per page is defined with the setting of:
- preferences -> search -> Hits per page
Installation
The installation requires following steps:
- extracting gbook.tar.gz to "$wiki/extensions/"
- enabling the extension in LocalSettings.php
- integrate Special:Guestbook into the MediaWiki:Sidebar or create some link
Installing the files
change to the /extensions/ directory
cd /home/www/example.org/Wiki/extensions/
download the tarball:
wget http://www.mcmilk.de/projects/wiki-gbook/gbook.tar.bz2
extract the archiv and delete it:
tar xjvf gbook.tar.bz2 rm -f gbook.tar.bz2
Adjust LocalSettings.php
Add this line at the end of LocalSettings.php:
require_once("extensions/gbook/gbook.php");
You can also adjust the moderating rights for the guestbook to some user groups. The default defines, that the user of the group sysop have the ability to moderate/delete guestbook entries. As default exist this setting in gbook.php.
$wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['gbook'] = true;
Linking the Special:Guestbook
The guestbook is a specialpage, which is not shown is the Special:Specialpages overview. You can create a link to the guestbook with [[Special:Guestbook]]... thats it ;)
Styling
The guestbook uses the following css styles:
- class successbox (creating a new entry was successful)
- class errorbox (for all error messages)
- class visualClear (directly after some error/success box)
- class gbook
- DIV Layer, which will be used around each entry
- the class gbook is is defined in "$wiki/extensions/gbook.css" and should be adjusted
Problems / FAQ
The Captcha isn't shown or some error message is there.
- this problem was reported by a lot of users
- it isn't the guestbook, its a missing funtion within PHP
- solution: build PHP yourself or install the appropriate GD package of your distribution
