Extension talk:LaunchExternal

Thank you
I'm sure this is useful.

Very useful but doesn't work on mozilla v.2.0.0.18 thank you.

Great extension!

Works great on our intranet wiki.

I have a request, is possible to add code to render the color of the link to another color? This will help my users visually see what is local and what is not.

Thanks raudelh@tgce.com

split deprecated
Evidently, function split is deprecated. What would be a good replacement? Tisane 23:30, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

Patches for MW1.21.2
split is deprecated from PHP5.3 on, see http://de2.php.net/manual/en/function.split.php and http://de2.php.net/manual/de/function.preg-split.php. is changed to

Image::newFromName does not exist anymore, see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11769115/how-to-get-image-in-mediawiki-extension and https://doc.wikimedia.org/mediawiki-core/master/php/html/classFile.html

needs to be changed to

changes
Hello, I made some changes in your code : <      $arrInput = split("::",$input); // use a different display then the file reference... --- >      #modified separator of link: using "|" (JPA) >      $arrInput = explode("|",$input,2);      // use a different display then the file reference... 40a42 >      $href = str_replace("'","%27",$reference); 52c54 <        return  "". ($display == "" ? $reference : $display). "$server"; --- >        return  "". ($display == "" ? $reference : $display). "$server";

The first modification use explode instead of split, and pipe as separator (which is more conform to mediawiki style) The second replace apostrophe by urlencode character, otherwise a link with an apostroph causes a syntax error.

JP Ayanidès, 2010-03-15

Add to Custom Buttons
Hi!

Works great!

But I can´t add it to my custom buttuns:

var button = { "imageFile": "images/buttons/extbutton.jpg", // image to be shown on the button (may be a full URL too), 22x22 pixels "speedTip": "open external", // text shown in a tooltip when hovering the mouse over the button "tagOpen": " ", // the text to use to mark the beginning of the block "tagClose": " ",     // the text to use to mark the end of the block (if any) "sampleText": "file:\\Server\Path\file(opt.)" // the sample text to place inside the block }; mwCustomEditButtons.push(button);

When adding this to Common.js, the page fails with Error 500.

The Problem is the tagOpen and TagClose part.

I need to put the last part of the tagOpent to the sample text. "tagOpen": "file:\\\\Server\\Path\\file(opt.)"

Link hiding
I have a small issue: although and work perfectly, there is a problem with masking long URL's (like certain PHP get commands we use). Is there a way to "mask" the URL into something nice? I have tried the HTML but that does not work. Vadra, Dec 6th 2010

Using LaunchExternal in a Templates
When using this extension in a template, the parameter is not parsed (see Manual:Tag_extensions).

I've modified this to work :