User:Egingell/Uber Sidebar

Description

 * Add dynamic content to the sidebar. This is not really an extension, it's more of a replacement.

Change Log

 * Special pages produced an error when attempting to fetch the User's Sidebar. This has been fixed.

Features
*(*) if ? ({permission type}) "{section header or target}(|{text})" ? example (only show a link to MediaWiki:Sidebar if the user can edit the interface): ** if ? (editinterface) "MediaWiki:Sidebar|Sidebar" ?
 * Dynamic User Links
 * Pulls sidebar formatted data from User:{username}/Sidebar and adds it to the sidebar.
 * Namespace Based Links
 * Pulls sidebar formatted data from MediaWiki:Sidebar{namespace number} and adds it to the sidebar.
 * Category Links
 * Adds "Category" section complete with links to the articles categories.
 * Category Page Links
 * Adds "Sub Categories", "Articles in Category", and "Images in Category" sections complete with their respective content.
 * Sorting
 * Sorts sections alphabetically (leaving the first section always first).
 * Sorts links alphabetically.
 * Conditionals
 * use the following to create conditionals base on permissions in $wgGroupPermissions:
 * Note: Quotation marks (") in {section header or target}(|{text}) will kill the statement. Use MediaWiki:{msg} whenever you need to use them.

Instructions
Change to
 * Edit includes/Skin.php
 * Create a new file called LocalSkin.php and place it in either the "includes" directory or in the top level directory (next to LocalSettings.php).
 * Copy and paste the entire contents of my LocalSkin.php into your LocalSkin.php and save.
 * Note: Might be easier just to "edit" the page and Ctrl-A/Ctrl-C the edit box which is why I put it in a separate page (User:Egingell/Uber_Sidebar/LocalSkin.php).

See it in Action
http://addons.wowkoe.com/