Extension:Call

Purpose
With the Call-extension you can create dynamic wiki pages by passing parameters. Write something like Special:Call/MyTemplate,size=big,color=green,good morning! Special:Call/:MyArticle,size=big,color=green in a wiki article or type http://mywiki/index.php?title=Special:Call/MyTemplate,size=big,color=green,hello! http://mywiki/index.php?title=Special:Call/MyTemplate&size=big&color=green,nice day http://mywiki/index.php?title=Special:Call/:MyArticle,size=big,color=green,see you later. http://mywiki/index.php?title=Special:Call/:MyArticle&size=big&color=blue&good night!

Within template 'MyTemplate' or within article 'MyArticle' you reference parameters (by name or number) in the normal way: ... arbitrary text ...                Size is, using  color. ... arbitrary text ... Why should one do this?


 * Think of a 'menu page' where the user selects an option and you want to forward him to a wiki page depending on that option.
 * Did you develop a wiki template? Call it directly from the browser command line and pass parameters to test it.
 * Think of an article which contains a form (combo boxes, user input fields). Once the user has filled in the form you perform the desired action and then call the same article again so that the user can modify his input and try a second time (a good example for this technique can be found on the dpldemo website.

Download information
The latest Version 1.2 is only usable for Mediawiki version < 1.18.0. If you use Mediawiki version >= 1.8 download http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:ExtensionDistributor/Call If you use an incompatible version you might get an error like 'PHP Fatal error: Call to a member function addMessages on a non-object in /var/www/clients/client8/web20/web/wiki/extensions/Call/Call_body.php on line 262'

Related extensions

 * Dynamic Page List