Extension talk:RequireCategory

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Unfortunately with 1.6.6 and with the patch Installed... the extension returns a 0 and not the message itself... any ideas? teddy

This extension does not work with section editing. It does not let you save the section without adding a category even though the category was added to the page.

Sue

Section edit

Does this mean, you cant save a section-edit, unless u insert a category in the section you are actually edit? --Nyks 18:16, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Yes. Patches are welcomed :-) Hendrik Brummermann 89.22.76.183 15:13, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

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I've started a try to fix this problem. RequireCategory

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Link to fix doesnt work

Does anybody have a working link to a version which fixes the section-problem?

Fix Section edit

To don't showing message when you are editing a partial page, change the editFilterRequireCategory function.

Do this:

if ($wgTitle->getNamespace() != NS_MAIN || $section) { return true; }

1.18+ Fix

$wgMessageCache->addMessage no longer works in 1.18+. To fix:

• create new file RequireCategory.i18n.php, populate with the message

<?php
/**
 * Internationalisation file for extension LdapAuthentication.
 *
 * @file
 * @ingroup Extensions
 */
$dir = dirname( __FILE__ ) . '/';
$wgExtensionMessagesFiles['RequireCategory'] = $dir . 'RequireCategory.i18n.php';
$messages = array();

/** English
 * @author Ryan Lane
 */
$messages['en'] = array(
        'category_required' => "'''NOTICE''': There '''must''' be at least one
'''[[Category:''something'']]''' link.<br>"
."Right click on the link and select ''\"Open in a new window\"'' to get a [[:Special:Categories list of all"
."available categories]].<br>Try to use an existing category if at all possible.<br>");
?>

• Remove requireCategorySetup function from from RequireCategory.php
• add line to RequireCategory.php

$dir = dirname( __FILE__ ) . '/';
$wgExtensionMessagesFiles['RequireCategory'] = $dir . 'RequireCategory.i18n.php';

1.18+ addition

I have changed the above code so that the extension calls a special page so that the message can be edited easily.

$messages['en'] = array(
        'category_required' => "{{MediaWiki:RequireCategory}}<br>"
."<br>");

Amblerllc (talk) 14:25, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

Need more info

Hi, can you give the full code, this still does not seem to be working for 1.18, gives me the following error: Warning: call_user_func() expects parameter 1 to be a valid callback, function not found or invalid function name in /opt/mediawiki/includes/Setup.php on line 496

Full Code for 1.19.2

The extension won't work for my Wiki, so I changed the code a little and thought I could share it with you. So here it is:

<?php
if ( ! defined( 'MEDIAWIKI' ) )
    die();
 
/**
 * Requires all edited pages to be at least in one category
 *
 * @author Hendrik Brummermann
 * @version 1.0
 */
 
 
$wgHooks['EditFilter'][] = 'editFilterRequireCategory';
 
 
function editFilterRequireCategory ( $editpage, $textbox, $section, &$error)  {
        global $wgTitle, $wgContLang;
        if ($wgTitle->getNamespace() != NS_MAIN) {
                return true;
        }
 
        preg_match_all( "/Category:/im", $textbox, $list, PREG_SET_ORDER );
        if( count($list) == 0) {
                $localCategory = $wgContLang->getNsText( NS_CATEGORY );
                preg_match_all( '/'.$localCategory.':/im', $textbox, $list, PREG_SET_ORDER );
                if( count($list) == 0) {
                        $error = '<br>{{MediaWiki:RequireCategory}}<br>';
                }
        }
        return true;
}
 
$wgExtensionCredits['other'][] = array(
        'name' => 'RequireCategory ',
        'version' => '1.0',
        'author' => 'Hendrik Brummermann',
        'url' => 'http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:RequireCategory',
        'description' => 'all saved pages must be in at least one category'
);
?>

The error message is now a special page like in a topic above. You have to create this page yourself for the error message to show up. I created it at "MediaWiki:RequireCategory" but you could also create it in the template namespace and change the code to that. If you're not familiar with templates you can use the one I created:

{| style="padding: 5px; border: 1px solid #bd3b3b; text-align: center; background: #ff8282; width: 100%;"
|-
| <span style="font-size: larger;">'''Please insert at least one category!'''</span>
|}

It should look like this:

Please insert at least one category!

Also you don't need to set up a *.i18n.php file.

Hope this post was helpful!

Cheers from Germany!