Extension:UrlGetParameters

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UrlGetParameters Release status: stable
Implementation	Parser function
Description	Provides a parserfunction {{#urlget:...}} which allows access to the url parameters in your page.  Note:Caching for the page you use this extension on should be disabled.
Author(s)	S.O.E. Ansems
Last version	1.3.0 (2012-01-19)
MediaWiki	1.10.x or higher
Database changes	no
License	No license specified
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Hooks used ParserFirstCallInit
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This extension enables you to use and/or display the "GET" parameters of the URL, i.e. the query string, on the wiki page.

Download

You can download the code, in .tgz format, here.

You can also download the code directly via Git from the MediaWiki source code repository. From a command line, call the following:

git clone https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/p/mediawiki/extensions/UrlGetParameters.git

To view the code online, including version history for each file, go here.

Installation

Once you have downloaded the extension, enable it by adding this line to your LocalSettings.php:

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

Usage

To display the value of a URL get parameter in your page, you might do this:

{{#urlget:parameter-name}}

Where parameter-name is the name of the parameter whose value you want. If the parameter is not found, the extension will result in nothing. Alternatively, you can also specify a default value as follows:

{{#urlget:parameter-name|default-value}}

When the parameter parameter-name is not available, then the value default-value is returned.

If the URL contains parameters of the form "A[B]=C", you can display the value "C" in a similar way, by calling:

{{#urlget:A[B]}}

Authors

This extension was written by S.O.E. Ansems. Important contributions were made by Ankit Garg and some anonymous editors.

Version history

Version	Date	Changes
1.0	February 21, 2008	Initial version
1.1	February 15, 2011	Page caching disabled Handling added for array parameters Security fix added using rawurlencode()
1.2	March 2, 2011	Code tidy up Improve hook calls