Extension talk:DynamicSkin

Vector based[edit]

Did anyone create a Vector based template, which works with the new Mediawiki Editor?

Changes to To Work With MediaWiki 1.19[edit]

Trying to use the DynamicSkin Extension gives two errors (so far) on MediaWiki 1.19:

tooltipAndAccesskey is undefined
an error saying that cache cannot be disabled

The following changes fixed these problems:

--- DynamicSkin.php.orig	2012-07-23 22:49:55.000000000 -0700
+++ DynamicSkin.php	2012-07-24 10:17:23.775672475 -0700
@@ -225,7 +225,7 @@
             $out .= '<a style="background-image: url(';
             $out .= !empty($args) ? $args : $this->otext('logopath');
             $out .= ');" href="' . htmlspecialchars($this->data['nav_urls']['mainpage']['href']) . '"';
-            $out .= $skin->tooltipAndAccesskey('n-mainpage') . '></a></div>';
+            $out .= $skin->tooltipAndAccesskeyAttribs('n-mainpage') . '></a></div>';
             $out .= '<script type="'.$JSMIME.'"> if (window.isMSIE55) fixalpha(); </script>';    // <!-- IE alpha-transparency fix -->
             return( $out );
  
@@ -258,7 +258,7 @@
         case 'SEARCH':          // Search button(s)
             $out .= $this->startPortlet( 'p-search', 'search', 'searchBody', 'searchInput' )
                  .  '<form action="' . $this->otext('searchaction') . '" id="searchform"><div>'
-                 .  '<input id="searchInput" name="search" type="text"' . $skin->tooltipAndAccesskey('search')
+                 .  '<input id="searchInput" name="search" type="text"' . $skin->tooltipAndAccesskeyAttribs('search')
                  .  ( (isset($this->data['search'])) ? ' value="' . $this->otext('search') . '"' : '' )
                  .  ' />';
             if ( !stristr($args,'go') && !stristr($args,'se'))   $args .= ',go,search';   // Default if only 'image' was specified
@@ -330,7 +330,7 @@
                 $out .= '<li id="feedlinks">';
                 foreach ($this->data['feeds'] as $key => $feed) {
                     $out .= '<span id="feed-' . Sanitizer::escapeId($key) . '">'
-                         .  '<a href="' . htmlspecialchars($feed['href']) . '"' . $skin->tooltipAndAccesskey('feed-'.$key) . '>'
+                         .  '<a href="' . htmlspecialchars($feed['href']) . '"' . $skin->tooltipAndAccesskeyAttribs('feed-'.$key) . '>'
                          .  htmlspecialchars($feed['text']) . '</a>&nbsp;</span>';
                 }
                 $out .= '</li>';
@@ -382,11 +382,11 @@
             return( $this->data['displaytitle']!="" ? $this->ohtml('title') : $this->otext('title') );
  
         case 'USERGROUPS':             // &&USERGROUPS&& pseudo-variable: Groups this user belongs to
-            $wgParser->disableCache(); // Mark this content as uncacheable
+            # $wgParser->disableCache(); // Mark this content as uncacheable
             return( implode( ",", $wgUser->getGroups() ) );
  
         case 'USERID':                 // &&USERID&& pseudo-variable: User Name, blank if anonymous
-            $wgParser->disableCache(); // Mark this content as uncacheable
+            # $wgParser->disableCache(); // Mark this content as uncacheable
             // getName() returns IP for anonymous users, so check if logged in first
             return( $wgUser->isLoggedIn() ? $wgUser->getName() : '' );
  
@@ -454,7 +454,7 @@
         if ( !empty($href) ) {
             $out .= '<a href="' . htmlspecialchars($href) . '"';
             if ( !empty($hclass) ) $out .= ' class="' . htmlspecialchars($hclass) . '"';
-            if ( !empty($id) )     $out .= $skin->tooltipAndAccesskey($id);
+            if ( !empty($id) )     $out .= $skin->tooltipAndAccesskeyAttribs($id);
             $out .= '>';
         }        
         $out .= htmlspecialchars($text);

Edit: Disabling the Cachelines gives weird behaviour. Sometimes I get logged out, but Mediawiki still serves pages as If I were still logged in. Investigating with Mediawiki 1.17.

Sidebar[edit]

I've been able to get dynamic skins to switch sidebars based on namespace but i am having problems with having multiple areas within the sidebar. For instance on this page there is a section for site, a section for download, a section for support etc. Usually in MediaWiki:Sidebar you can get this effect by using bulleted lists 1 * for a header above the box (*) and 2 * for items within the box (**) If i do that in a dynamicskin sidebar, the one labled navigation shows up properly but each additional header, whether before or after navigation shows up with the ascii code for < preceding the header and the ascii code for > following.

Has anyone had any success with making sidebars with multiple sections without ascii code appearing in the headers?

Kay

I'm relatively new to using MediaWiki (trying to build a large, extended-family website), and I hit this problem as well. I've looked back here a couple times to see if anyone has answered your Kay's original question, without luck. For what it's worth, I'd also be interested in an answer to this problem.

~Nathan

Doesnt work for[edit]

I mediawiki 1.14 installed . And it doesn't work .

CATEGORIES[edit]

I noticed that the code listed for the &&CATEGORIES&& pseudo-variable is incomplete. For me, if I attempted to use the variable in the sidebar or elsewhere, the page displayed an error stating that a non-object was attempting to access the getCategories() function. Looking at the code, I noticed that there is no local definition in the translate_variable function for the variable &skin. In short, I simply added "$skin = $wgUser->getSkin();" to the top of the translate_variable function, and everything worked perfectly. In sort I made it look like so:

...
...
# Returns HTML text for the specified pseudo-variable
    function translate_variable( $tag )
    {
        global $wgParser, $wgUser;
	$skin   = $wgUser->getSkin();

        switch ( strtoupper($tag) ) {
...
...

Hope that helps!

Cheers, ~Nathan