Extension:MobileFrontend

Installation

 * 1) Copy the files from the SVN repository to your server (see the "Download" links in the sidebox).
 * 2) Add this link to the bottom of LocalSettings.php:

Configuration settings
The following variables can be defined in LocalSettings.php after calling require_once("$IP/extensions/MobileFrontend/MobileFrontend.php"):

{| class="wikitable" ! Setting name ! Default value ! Description
 * $wgMobileFrontendLogo
 * , defaults to $wgExtensionAssetsPath . '/MobileFrontend/stylesheets/images/mw.png'
 * Url to the logo used in the mobile view. Should be 22px tall at most.
 * $wgAppleTouchIcon
 * , means none
 * Url to the Apple touch icon
 * $wgMobileUrlTemplate
 * $wgMFRemovableClasses
 * Make the classes, tags and ids stripped from page content configurable. Each item will be stripped from the page. The extension adds some classes by default.
 * $wgMobileRedirectFormAction
 * URL for script used to disable mobile site (protocol, host, optional port; path portion) e.g., http://en.wikipedia.org/w/mobileRedirect.php
 * $wgMFCustomLogos
 * Makes the logos configurable. Example:
 * $wgMFExtendOpenSearchXml
 * Whether this extension should provide its excerpts to OpenSearchXml extension
 * $wgMobileFrontendFormatCookieExpiry
 * $wgMobileRedirectFormAction
 * URL for script used to disable mobile site (protocol, host, optional port; path portion) e.g., http://en.wikipedia.org/w/mobileRedirect.php
 * $wgMFCustomLogos
 * Makes the logos configurable. Example:
 * $wgMFExtendOpenSearchXml
 * Whether this extension should provide its excerpts to OpenSearchXml extension
 * $wgMobileFrontendFormatCookieExpiry
 * $wgMFExtendOpenSearchXml
 * Whether this extension should provide its excerpts to OpenSearchXml extension
 * $wgMobileFrontendFormatCookieExpiry
 * Whether this extension should provide its excerpts to OpenSearchXml extension
 * $wgMobileFrontendFormatCookieExpiry
 * $wgMobileFrontendFormatCookieExpiry

Same request for XML: |sections&format=xmlfm api.php?action=mobileview&page=Example_page&sections=0&prop=text|sections&format=xml

prop=excerpts
Returns article excerpts - text representation of ledes. Two formats are available: cleaned up HTML and plain text. Parameters:


 * exlength: Length of excerpts. If this parameter is omitted, all text until the first section heading will be returned.
 * exlimit: Maximum number of excerpts to return. Because excerpts generation can be slow, the limit is capped at 10 (20 for users with apihighlimits permission).
 * explaintext: Return plain-text excerpts.
 * excontinue: When more results are available, use this parameter to continue.

Example:

api.php?action=query&prop=excerpts&exlength=100&titles=Earth&format=json

WMF properties
On Wikimedia Foundation run properties, we use Varnish caching servers to check the user agent of your device. If your user agent appears to be coming from a mobile device, the Varnish servers will set an appropriate 'X-Device' header for your request, and you will be redirected to the MobileFrontend version of an article. Alternatively, you can click 'Mobile view' in the footer of an article or append "useformat=mobile" to the query string to view an article in the mobile view.

If you are viewing the mobile version of article but wish to see the desktop-version of that article, you can click 'View this article on regular ' to switch back.

If you want to permanently disable the mobile view for your web browser, you can click 'Permanently disable mobile site', which will set a cookie instructing the WMF servers to always display the desktop version of the site.

Non-WMF properties
For non-WMF properties, you can either set up your configuration to mimic how things are done at the WMF (doing device detection at the proxy layer and setting specific X-Device headers), or you can simply use "?useformat=mobile" to switch an article to use the mobile view.

Note: clicking 'Permanently disable mobile site' on non-WMF properties will result in a 404 page not found error. This is a known issue and a fix is forthcoming. See 35205.

WMF cluster deployments
See Extension:MobileFrontend/Deployments for deployment information on past and upcoming deployments of MobileFrontend to the WMF cluster.