Extension:Tooltips

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Tooltips Release status: beta
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Implementation	Tag
Description	Add nice tooltips to wiki text
Author(s)	Paul Grinberg, Stanislav Egorkin
Last version	v0.0.1 (Feb. 13, 2011)
License	GPL
Download	link
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This extension provides the ability to add nice tooltips to wiki text. This is remake of Extension:Tooltip by Paul Grinberg: javascript code was fully rewritten, design is completely new. Basic javascript was taken from Wowhead project and adapted for general needs.

Installation

Step 1

Download the extension code and place it in the extensions directory.

Step 2

Add the following text to your LocalSettings.php

require_once( "$IP/extensions/Tooltip.php" );

Step 3

Replace in Parser.php:

if ( $isHTML ) { 
$text = "\n\n" . $this->insertStripItem( $text ); 
}

to

if ( $isHTML and $nowiki ) {
        $text = $this->insertStripItem( $text );
}
elseif ( $isHTML ) {
        $text = "\n\n" . $this->insertStripItem( $text ); 
}

Usage Instructions

There are two methods for using this extension in your wiki articles: via a Parser Function, and via a new Tag. These two methods are mutually exclusive and should NOT be interchanged on a given article in order to guarantee proper output.

<tooltip> Tag Format

Simply add the following text

<tooltip text="body text" image="link">tooltip text</tooltip>

directly inline with your article, where the "image=" (optional) is a name of the jpg image without '.jpg' (must be places in /extensions/Tooltip/images/).

{{#tooltip:}} Parser Function Format

Create a new Template called {{tooltip}} and add the following content to it

<includeonly>{{#tooltip: {{{1}}}|{{{2}}}}}|{{{3}}}</includeonly><noinclude>Usage: <nowiki>{{tooltip | base text | tooltip text | image}}</nowiki> ({{tooltip | base text | tooltip text}})</noinclude>

To use this extension on your wiki article, simply call the template like so

{{tooltip | base text | tooltip text | image }}