Extension talk:Description2/Archive

Am i missing something else. On 1.17 PHP 5.3 i installed the extension and also enabled $wgEnableMetaDescriptionFunctions = true; however, using the parser   does not appear to do anything and in fact appears on the page as any text. Why is it showing up when it's a parser and why is it not working to set teh meta description. ANy help would be great.

Thanks Wikimanz 16:33, 23 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Link to the wiki please. Daniel Friesen (Dantman) 21:33, 23 October 2011 (UTC)

Never Mind, I apologize, downloaded and installed latest version from subversion and It works, perhaps I was dealing with an older version of this extension. Thanks for the extension and fast response.

Wikimanz

Thanks -- Working with 1.17
I got this extension to work properly with v1.17, but I had to download the "trunk" version, and go in and change the $wgEnableMetaDescriptionFunctions = true; inside the php code (it didn't seem to work properly if I just set it inside to true in LocalSetting.php). The website is http://wheretosee.org/wildlife/Main_Page


 * You shouldn't need to edit it at all. Did you make sure to set the $wg variable after your require_once line?
 * The REL1_17 code is a bit old yeah, it's 0.1.1 while the current is 0.2. We do need a better extension deployment system, most extension authors don't bother to update the versions of extensions in the old REL branches. The REL branches are mostly there for a guarantee of "This was what was around when this release was released, if you can't get the current version working, then this version has a better chance of being compatible." Daniel Friesen (Dantman) 19:22, 3 November 2011 (UTC)

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Hi I'm in the process of setting up a MediaWiki 1.16.5 WIP at www.financial-jargon.co.uk

Your extension is fantastic with auto descriptions but I couldn't get the override description to work I added $wgEnableMetaDescriptionFunctions = true; to localsettings.php as per the guidance However, the parser extensions (I've tried all 3) just show up as text on the page.

The only thing I can think of is that there as only an extension for 1.17.x and I'm using media wiki 1.16.5

Any help appreciated thank you


 * Did you make sure to download the trunk version of the extension and that the $wg was set after the require_once instead of before? Daniel Friesen (Dantman) 18:43, 10 November 2011 (UTC)

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Thanks Daniel. The trunk version (vs. 1.17x) worked a treat. Many thanks for your help. Stuart 23:54 16 November 2011 (UTC)

Two Feature Requests
Description2 works great on our site on the first try. There are two minor improvements that would be nice.


 * 1) If the paragraph that becomes the description or the block contains an HTML entity like "&amp;reg;", this becomes "&amp;amp;reg;" in the description, which seems incorrect.
 * 2) If a block is placed on a line by itself, it behaves like an extra blank line from the wikitext perspective, adding extra vertical whitespace. So if I put a right after the first heading, I end up with extra space between the first heading and the first paragraph. It would be nice if I could add and maybe even a blank line before it, without affecting the final layout.

Ncrutcher (Nat) 03:13, 24 May 2012 (UTC)