Extension talk:Newest Pages Blog

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Breaks all other extensions[edit]

I'm running mediawiki 1.11.0 on newest stable php 5.2.5 and mysql. I have newest 1.0 of semantic mediawiki and a bunch of other stable extensions. When i enable this extension, all other extensions get rendered with the notorious UNIQ - QINU string. There's something severely buggy in this extension.

  • its the same with mediawiki 1.93. when i write {{Special:NewestPagesBlog}} in the same articel like the other extensions, the others shows "�UNIQ7754b6b96077c082-calendar-00000004-QINU" (testet with "Extension:Newest_Pages" and "Extension:Calendar_%28Cdamian%29"). --85.232.27.244 20:04, 16 January 2008 (UTC)Reply
  • Same goes for me.?UNIQ13b0d7187fdd16ab-tagcloud-00000000-QINU? It's a shame 'cause it's a usefull extension.. Hope it will be fixed

Friso --89.96.31.24 15:30, 5 June 2008 (UTC)Reply

Doesn't show text from pages[edit]

Apparently, this extension doesn't include texts from pages in my MW 1.6.8 installment. It just links to the pages... Otherwise this looks promising. Would prefer to include the pages with a traditional extension, though, such as Extension:DynamicPageList2. Would be nice to allow wikimarkup and variables in the *entryformat* --MortenB 17:01, 25 July 2006 (UTC)Reply

Figured it out. It seems, if there is no endmarker on the page, nothing gets included. Wouldn't it make more sense to make this an "opt-in" solution? So that everything is included, unless there is a "endmarker" somewhere on the page - or simply use MW's own <noinclude></noinclude> functionality? Otherwise, nice work ! --MortenB 17:08, 25 July 2006 (UTC)Reply

Suggestions for improvement[edit]

  • It would be nice if, when selecting the "order=new" option, that the author named on top of the post would be the original user creating the article, and not subsequent ones updating it, who may only have added a comma. Using the "order=updated" logically displays the latest user updating the page.
  • A "stub" or "minor edit" filter would also be quite nice, for the listed pages not to be reordered every time someone corrects a comma, but only when proper new content has been added. A lot of admin work like moving pages around etc. seems to get in the way too easily.
  • I suggest including all messages in the database for internationalization. It is a bit messy that words such as "created" and "updated" are included directly in the extension, which means one cannot have different texts in the subheader for different languages.
  • I suggest sending back variables to MW, which are *not* preformatted as HTML links, but can be formatted to the users satisfaction in *entryformat* (if not in wikimarkup, then in HTML). For instance, one cannot format the title, which has already been transformed to a link, when returned to MW as $2. Same for other variables used.

--MortenB 17:25, 25 July 2006 (UTC)Reply

Source[edit]

This page fails to point out that the extension was based on code from Rob Church, see Newest Pages (extension).

redirects (even to deleted pages) are shown[edit]

from user Dan Shearer:

I edited page X, then later Moved it to Y. X showed up in Newpages as a redirect. Then I Deleted Y. X still showed up in Newpages.

Redirects (answer)[edit]

Look for the line with the SELECT query, and substitute this:

$querySQL = "SELECT page_namespace, page_title, page_id, page_latest FROM {$page},{$rev} WHERE {$page}.page_is_redirect = 0 AND {$page}.page_latest = {$rev}.rev_id AND {$nsf} {$authorWHERE} ORDER BY {$orderField} DESC LIMIT 0,{$this->limit}";

It worked for me. 92.243.182.121 16:46, 24 December 2009 (UTC)Reply

RSS[edit]

So I have it installed here but I tried to find the RSS for it and I can't find it. :( It gives me the following error:

XML Parsing Error: xml declaration not at start of external entity Location: http://www.fanhistory.com/index.php/Special:NewestPagesBlog/limit=20/format=rss/order=updated Line Number 1, Column 4: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> ---^

--99.151.166.225 21:33, 14 March 2008 (UTC)Reply

Me too. Apparently it is something to do with the extra blank line before the <?xml line, but I can't get rid of the blank line. Jonathan3 01:00, 2 December 2009 (UTC)Reply
Oops. It was an extra line space at the start of LocalSettings.php. Also apparently it can be caused by extra lines at the end of extensions.Jonathan3 01:10, 2 December 2009 (UTC)Reply

1.18[edit]

The extension doesn't work for me on 1.18. It breaks with the error: "Fatal error: Call to a member function addMessages() on a non-object in /f5/fastfreeporn/public/smut/extensions/NewestPagesBlog/NewestPagesBlog.php on line 55" Beta M (talk) 06:39, 10 March 2012 (UTC)Reply

Commented that line out (which has helped almost every other extension) but now the blog page generates rubbish. Beta M (talk) 14:19, 10 March 2012 (UTC)Reply