Extension talk:MsLinks/Archive

Direct Links
Is there a way to create a direct link to the file, instead of a link to the wiki-page for the file? Just want to reduce the number of clicks people make when using this. I notice the option for "dlink", which I thought might do this, but it doesn't seem to do anything.

You are right the option "dlink" should enable this feature but it seems to be not working properly. I will have a look at that. So far you can click on the file-extension icon to get directly to the file. --Ratin (talk) 12:07, 13 November 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for the quick response :) I can see now that the icon does provide a direct link - which will work in the interim. --194.176.105.150 12:32, 13 November 2012 (UTC)

Any news about the dlink issue?

Should be solved in V 3.1 --Ratin (talk) 12:42, 5 February 2013 (UTC)

Direct links (2)
In version 3.1 (which still seems to work fine on MW 1.19 btw), the dlink option is still working in a strange manner.

The extension always seems to create both a direct link to the file, and a link to the MediaWiki page. If the parser function is used in the standard way, the icon will point directly to the file, and the text will point to the files MediaWiki page. If the dlink option is used, these two are reversed.

On my wiki, I have altered the mslinks_body.php file, lines 56 - 63, the following way, so that the dlink option renders a direct link for both the icon and the text:

if ($typ == "dlink"){ $html = "[[Media:$url|$beschreibung]]"; $bild = "[[Media:$url|".$bild."]]"; } else { $html = "$beschreibung"; $bild = "[[Media:$url|".$bild."]]"; }
 * 1) 		$bild = "".$bild."";

This is what I think it should be.