Extension:WikiForum (Original)

What can this extension do?
This extension will provide your wikipage a small forum which uses the usermangement of mediawiki. As there is already an forum extension "Extension:Forum_extension", but since it will be not further developed, I decided to create a new forum extension. This one has some more features, some more colors and a better restructured design. It uses css, so you can adopt the layout very fast. You can define categories and forums where the user can add threads. You can use icons and it supports multiple-languages (until now only english and german), but I would enjoy it, if you could help to extend this library.

Since version 1.1 you have an admin view where you can add, edit, delete and sort categorys and forums. Additionally you can make as admin threads sticky on top. Also new in Version 1.1 is the installation script which helps you to add/update the right mysql tables.

Download
You can download the complete package here: WikiForum_v1_1.zip

Installation
Start to extract the files in includes and extensions folder to your mediawiki main folder. To install this extension, add the following to LocalSettings.php: And add yourself to the WikiForumAdmin Usergroup (see SpecialPages).

As next step you need just to login and open the WikiForum Specialpage. The installation script will pop out automatically. Follow the inctruction given in the installer. (Make sure your MySQL account has CREATE rights, if not, you need to update your MySQL tables manually with the querys you can find in WikiForum.sql).

Update from 1.0 to 1.1
Start to extract the files in includes and extensions folder to your mediawiki main folder and overwrite all except of WikiForum.config.php, to keep your current settings. To update, add the following to LocalSettings.php: And add yourself to the WikiForumAdmin Usergroup (see SpecialPages).

As next step you need just to login and open the WikiForum Specialpage. The installation script will pop out automatically. Follow the inctruction given in the installer. (Make sure your MySQL account has ALTER rights, if not, you need to update your MySQL tables manually with the querys you can find in WikiForumUpdate.sql).

Configuration parameters
There is a bunch of configuration parameters possible. You can find all in the WikiForum.config.php file with its description. Here is a small overview of them.

Features of next releases
... upcoming