Extension:RedLinks

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RedLinks Release status: unknown
Implementation	Tag
Description	Display a list of red links (links that are not related to an existing page)
Author(s)	Luc Brunet (Lcnritalk)
License	No license specified
Download	No link
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What can this extension do?

Display a list of red links (links that are not related to an existing page). This is a beta version but seems to work on small wikis.

Usage

<redlinks v="my legend:" />

Download instructions

Copy the code below and place it in $IP/extensions/RedLinks/redlinks.php. Note: $IP stands for the root directory of your MediaWiki installation, the same directory that holds LocalSettings.php.

Installation

To install this extension, add the following to LocalSettings.php:

#add configuration parameters here
#setup user rights here
require_once("$IP/extensions/RedLinks/redlinks.php");

you must change these values according to your sql server configuration

$wgDBserver         = "myserver";
$wgDBname           = "my base";
$wgDBuser           = "username";
$wgDBpassword       = "password";

Code

Make this code into a redlinks.php file and save the file in $IP/extensions/Redlinks, where $IP is the installation path of MediaWiki.

  <?php 
 
# Confirm MW environment
if (defined('MEDIAWIKI')) {
 
# Credits
$wgExtensionCredits['parserhook'][] = array(
    'name'=>'RedLinks',
    'author'=>'Luc Brunet(luc.brunet at cnri.fr)',
    'url'=>'none',
    'description'=>'list all the red links',
    'version'=>'0.1'
);
 
# Register Extension initializer
$wgExtensionFunctions[] = "wfRedLinks";
 
# Extension initializer
function wfRedLinks() {
    global $wgParser;
    $wgParser->setHook( "redlinks", "renderRedLinks" );
 
}
 
/**
 * Callback function for embedding video.
 * @param String $input Text between open and close tags - should always be empty or null.
 * @param Array $params Array of tag attributes.
 * @param Parser $parser Instance of Parser performing the parse.
 */
function renderRedLinks( $input, $params, &$parser ) {
 
    $v = htmlspecialchars($params['v']);
$wgDBserver         = "myserver";
$wgDBname           = "my base";
$wgDBuser           = "username";
$wgDBpassword       = "password";
$chandle = mysql_connect($wgDBserver, $wgDBuser, $wgDBpassword) ;
mysql_select_db($wgDBname, $chandle);
$query1="SELECT pl_title FROM risk_pagelinks WHERE pl_title NOT IN ( SELECT page_title FROM risk_page )";
$result = mysql_query($query1);
 
$rl="";
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result, MYSQL_NUM)) {
$itm=$row[0];
   $rl.= "<a href=index.php?title=$itm target=_blank>$itm</a> ";
}
mysql_free_result($result);
 
    $url = "$v$rl";
    return $url;
}
 
} # Closing MW Environment wrapper