Extension:NewsZ

What can this extension do?
Allows users to create frames and tables with lists of News per Category, limited to n elements. With thumbnails preview!

This extension search the first tag "Image:" in article and uses it as thumbnails preview; if the article not contains images, then uses a default "Logo-category_name.png" as thumbnail.

You can chose several types of previews: simple text, icons in colums, icons with text preview.

To mark the text inside an article for preview simply use this syntax: &lt;!--NewsZ--&gt; ... here the text article preview ... &lt;!--EndZ--&gt;

You can also hide a icon preview in every article: &lt;!-- --&gt;

Usage
where: "My_news_category" = a Category (Note: replace spaces with underscore) "begin from" = 0-->last inserted, 1-->previous, etc. "news counter" = number of articles in table "cols or chars" = 0 --> list article without thumbnails 1 to 15 --> n. of cols in preview per table >15 --> number of char in text article preview last field accepts list of styles

example:

Download instructions
Please cut and paste the code found below and place it in. Note: $IP stands for the root directory of your MediaWiki installation, the same directory that holds LocalSettings.php.

Installation
To install this extension, add the following to LocalSettings.php:

Speed up the news refresh
Mediawiki makes intensive use of server-side cache. To speed up news refresh you can invalidate cache in Localsettings.php:

Code
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return array($output, 'noparse' => true, 'isHTML' => true, 'noargs' => true);

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