Extension:Jira Ticket

Like the Jira Extension, Jira Ticket extension allows you to link a MediaWiki instance with Jira. This extension allows a single ticket to be incorporated into an article by its ticket number. The ticket's status, priority, and number are displayed to the user as a URL to the ticket in Jira, and with the title of the ticket as the alternate text.

Installation

 * Your PHP install will need to have Soap enabled.
 * In your LocalSettings.php add:
 * Touch a file in the extensions directory named jiraticket.php
 * Edit the file and place the following in it:
 * Remember to edit the variables for jiraHost (root URL), jiraUser, jiraPrass

Usage
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 * Simply take the jira ticket you want to use, and enclose it in the jira tag.
 * You'll end up with:

What's Next?
Parsing the data over HTTP is fine and dandy if you have a decent servers to handle it, but, using SOAP would make this extension MUCH faster. Expect that to come shortly.
 * Since 03/11/2008 it uses SOAP/RPC to make the calls, and it is about 20x faster.