Extension:BookManager

What can this extension do?
This extension adds automatic navigation through the pages of a book from its list of pages. In future implementations it should be possible to generate this list automatically, and organize from a special page.

Installation

 * 1) Download a snapshot and extract it to your extensions directory.  Choose the version that matches your version of MediaWiki.
 * 2) Add  to the bottom of LocalSettings.php.
 * 3) Installation can now be verified through Special:Version of your wiki.

Usage
The first step is to create the list of chapters which belongs to a book. The syntax and the page used to keep the list are the same used by Extension:Collection (see also Collection Help on Wikibooks):
 * chapter name
 * another chapter name

Once the list is created, it will be possible to navigate through the pages of the book with a navigation bar like the following, which can be customized using CSS or editing the the MediaWiki messages where they are defined:

The extension also provides some variables:

Future improvements

 * Navigation through categories
 * TODO: add better description of this...
 * Special pages
 * Bug 15073?
 * Automatic generation of list of chapters
 * Like Special:Book from Extension:Collection?
 * List of current issues
 * TODO: Move to bugzilla (add a tracking bug or a new component for BookManager extension)