Extension talk:DynamicPageList (third-party)

There is a separate document for Feature Requests on the DPL demo website.

Please use that one. Putting a "mw:" prefix before your signature will link to your media wiki user page.''

Existing entries with feature requests on this page have been moved. --Algorithmix 08:45, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

=2007=

Recent Changes
For putting recent changes in a given namespace or category on a wiki page, there is also Extension:News -- Duesentrieb ⇌ 13:00, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

MediaWiki Version
This page says that DPL requires v. 1.7+ of MW, but the DPL wiki says 1.8+. Would be worth changing to whichever one is correct! I tried to install with 1.7 and it didn't work, which was disappointing. --16 November 2007

Conflict with RSSReader Extension
I've noted a conflict between the RSSReader Extension and DynamicPageList Extension when both are run on the same page. See Comment on RSS_Reader Extension for details. Any idea why this might be?

--C4duser 15:26, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

=2008=

Labeled Transclusion Sections with DPL 1.6.9
We just installed DPL 1.6.9 and noticed that our section transclusions are no longer working.

For example, we have

title=Article1

include=summary

And it used to work with the previous DPL version which displayed all text in the summary section but with DPL 1.6.9 nothing is being picked up. Any ideas? -alhui

99.249.236.178 18:01, 11 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Add the following after the line with inclusion of the extension in the file LocalSettings.php

$wgParserConf['class'] = 'Parser_OldPP';


 * This will force the mw-core to use the old parser. Jeblad 15:13, 13 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Having same problem and the OldPP hack doesn't seem to solve it. (MW 1.12; DPL 1.6.9; the labeled section extension has been deactivated, and the dpl2include seems to work because the "section" tag is listed in my MW spectial:version page). A page called Test1 with the text The book is Cien anos de soledad is never transcluded in a page Test2 with the code Nothing is output. The older version 08:32, 17 January 2008 works perfectly though. --Fxparlant 09:55, 14 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Try DPL 1.7.4. It runs on MW 1.12 and 1.13 as you can see on the dpldemo website. If you still have a problem, please demonstarte the effect on that website and we will have a look at it. 84.58.229.59 09:51, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

Problem with mediawiki 1.12
It seems that message file cause error on mediawiki 1.12 (see this thread). Could author of this extension make the update for us ? -- phkoech 26 april 2008


 * The dpldemo website is now running on MW 1.13. All problems should be solved. 84.58.229.59 09:48, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

labeled section only
How to list only the labeled sections, without the pages not containing the section: will list the pages of category Book, even if they do not have. The includematch cannot be used, because the include doesn't call the whole section, but only the content of the section tags. Any idea ? --Fxparlant 11:06, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

Catch a template parameter
I am looking for a way to use DPL to catch, not the title of a page, but the parameter of a template:

if a page calls the template  , how to catch the param3 in another page, with a query on the first parameter and the second ?

--Fxparlant 13:08, 7 August 2008 (UTC)


 * You can use phantom templates for that purpose. DPL will call the phantom template instead of the original one and pass all parameters to the phantom template in the same way as they were passed to the original template. And within the phantom template you can do whatever you like - which means that you can simply output the third parameter.


 * See the DPL manual for details. 84.58.229.59 09:47, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

New pages
Is there a way to get this to only return new pages (the pages in Special:Newpages)? Thanks 193.36.230.96 12:13, 17 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Yes
 * "ordermethod=firstedit" was the parameter I needed --18 August 2008


 * if you do not have too many updates such as daily or weekly news for which the Extension:News might be worth a try you can find an example and explanations on the steps necessary to update the main page almost automatically using DPL and Extension:Inputbox on the page User_talk:Ob.helm.--Ob.helm 16:51, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

Mediawiki Version 1.6.9
Hi,

Is there a way to get DPL running on a Mediawiki 1.6.9 ? If not, why exactly ?

Best regards --193.57.156.241 11:26, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

download from subversion
Can the download used the inclued mediawiki subversion system ? Crochet.david 19:00, 14 September 2008 (UTC)

Tweak to make DPL backward compatible with DynamicPageList2 parameter
I'm one of the admins at ChoralWiki (www.cpdl.org), a free Public Domain scores library, and we use DynamicPageList2 a lot in it with parameter set to 'true'. We were doing an upgrade test to the newest version of DynamicPageList and after the upgrade all our DPL queries started showing this warning:

%DPL-1.7.4-WARNING: Unknown parameter '$0' is ignored. Help: available parameters: suppresserrors.

After a quick research we realized that parameter is no longer supported by the new DPL versions. It would be a pain to edit all pages where it appears, so we decided to tweak the DPL code to recognize it and behave as expected. We made the changes below, tested it and it worked fine. So we decided to post it here in case someone else faces the same problem. All one needs to do is to add the following lines in red to file DinamicPageList2.php:

line 682:

/**        * noresultsheader / footer is some wiki text which will be output (instead of a warning message) * if the result set is empty; setting 'noresultsheader' to something like ' ' will suppress * the warning about empty result set. */       'suppresserrors'       => array('default' => 'false', 'true', 'no', 'yes', '0', '1', 'off', 'on'), 'noresultsheader'     => array('default' => ''), 'noresultsfooter'     => array('default' => ''),

line 1157:

$bSuppressErrors = self::argBoolean(self::$options['suppresserrors']['default']); $sResultsHeader  = self::$options['resultsheader']['default']; $sResultsFooter  = self::$options['resultsfooter']['default'];

line 2095: case 'noresultsheader': $sNoResultsHeader = $sArg; break; case 'suppresserrors': if( in_array($sArg, self::$options['suppresserrors'])) { $bSuppressErrors = self::argBoolean($sArg); if( $bSuppressErrors ) $sNoResultsHeader = ' '; }                   else $output .= $logger->msgWrongParam('suppresserrors', $sArg); break; case 'noresultsfooter': $sNoResultsFooter = $sArg; break;

After the change, if is used in the query and 0 pages are returned, it won't show any warning message; if  is also used, it will show the 'text' supplied. Capmo 13:40, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

Licence
http://semeb.com/dpldemo/index.php?title=Main_Page says that "All extensions are under GPL license". So this page could be updated regarding the license.

= 2009 =

Index (List of index-terms) for a book
I am experienced in editing wikipedia-articles. Now I want to use mediawiki on my server to write a book (around 1.000 articles). I want to mark index-terms in articles and have one page with a sorted index. The book will exist of 1.000 articles. So it is no problem to generate the article dynamicaly when I will open the index. Is DPL the right extension to do the job?

How to mark the index-terms in articles? Which -code do I need?

Or is there a better solution than DPL? Regards, jan--89.52.155.34 23:55, 13 January 2009 (UTC)