User:Diploid/ATS (Article Tagging System)/README.txt

Usage
This extenion adds a few functions to mediawiki for the purpose of rendering tag clouds for articles in which each tag represents a category which the article is automatically added to:
 * - creates a tag cloud for the article
 * - can be added to categories to add a dynamic ranking of articles tagged as the category

Note
All configurable variables start on line 13 of ATS_Body.php

Requirements

 * MySQL 5.0 or greater
 * MediaWiki 1.10 or greater
 * Meta Keywords Tag is optional but automatically adds
 * meta tags for each ATS tag

insert the following line into your LocalSettings.php:
require_once( "$IP/extensions/ATS/ATS.php" );

and move all files to:
(Your Media Wiki Directory)\extensions\ATS

then go to ATS_Body.php and change:

 * $dbuser - change to a mysql user with create, write, and read access to your mediawiki database
 * $dbpassword - change to the mysql user's password
 * $dbserver - make this your database server's domain name or IP
 * $dbname - make this your mediawiki database's name

Warning
This extension, more so then most other extensions which are written by practiced php programmers is made with no gaurentee of safety or usability. It has many limitations some of which are:
 * Only works with MySQL
 * May not be entirely secure