Extension:MultiBoilerplate

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MultiBoilerplate Release status: stable

Implementation	User interface
Description	Allows a boilerplate to be selected from a drop down box located above the edit form when editing pages.
Author(s)	MinuteElectron ^Talk
Version	1.6
MediaWiki	1.11 or higher
License	GNU General Public License 2.0 or later
Download	Source Code README #Releases
Hooks used	EditPage::showEditForm:initial

The MultiBoilerplate extension allows a boilerplate to be selected from a drop down box located above the edit form when editing non-existant pages or optionally (based upon configuration variable $wgMultiBoilerplateOverwrite), load the template over the current contents. Any data inside <noinclude></noinclude> tags will not be loaded, and any data inside <includeonly></includeonly> will only be included (and the tags are stripped before include).

Bugs and feature requests should be added to MediaZilla under the 'MediaWiki extensions' product and 'MultiBoilerplate' component.

1 Installation
2 Usage
3 Releases
4 See Also

[edit] Installation

Place the MultiBoilerplate.php source code into extensions/MultiBoilerplate/MultiBoilerplate.php.
Place the MultiBoilerplate.i18n.php source code into extensions/MultiBoilerplate/MultiBoilerplate.i18n.php.
Add require_once( "$IP/extensions/MultiBoilerplate/MultiBoilerplate.php" ); to LocalSettings.php.
Enjoy!

[edit] Usage

Fill the $wgMultiBoilerplateOptions variable with a list of boilerplate names to templates.

$wgMultiBoilerplateOptions[ "My Boilerplate" ] = "Template:My Boilerplate";

Alternatively set the variable to false and use the MediaWiki:Multiboilerplate page to set options.

LocalSettings.php:

$wgMultiBoilerplateOptions = false;

MediaWiki:Multiboilerplate:

* My Boilerplate|Template:My Boilerplate

Optionally set whether or not the selection box is displayed on pages that already exist (defaults to false) using $wgMultiBoilerplateOverwrite.

$wgMultiBoilerplateOverwrite = true;

[edit] Releases

Version	Release date	Comments
1.1	2007-12-18	Original version.
1.2	2008-01-07	Refactor code, fix major bug that made the extension useless and add comments.
1.3	2008-01-19	Use Xml:: instead of manually created HTML, converted all double-quotes to single-quotes, added an optional message `multiboilerplate-label` to display a label before the drop-down box, and rename `multiboilerplate-select` to `multiboilerplate-legend` and `multiboilerplate-load` to `multiboilerplate-submit` to be less ambiguous.
1.4	2008-02-06	It is now (optionally) possible to specify boilerplates in a MediaWiki namespace message instead of a `LocalSettings.php` configuration variable. The extension now uses `descriptionmsg` (allowing description internationalisation). Part of the code that used direct database interfacing to check for article existence has been replaced with a call to the `$wgTitle` global. The `$wgMultiBoilerplateThings` global has been renamed to `$wgMultiBoilerplateOptions` for a greater level of self-explanation. The boilerplate selection box is no longer displayed if there are no options. Version number incremented from 1.3 to 1.4.
1.5	2008-02-06	Now handles `<noinclude>` and`<includeonly>` tags.
1.6	2008-02-26	Added README. ltrim() now used instead of preg_replace().