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Template:ExtensionInstall

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  • Download and move the extracted ExtensionInstall folder to your extensions/ directory.
    Developers and code contributors should install the extension from Git instead, using:cd extensions/
    git clone https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/mediawiki/extensions/ExtensionInstall
  • Add the following code at the bottom of your LocalSettings.php file:
    require_once "$IP/extensions/ExtensionInstall/ExtensionInstall.php";
    
  • Yes Done – Navigate to Special:Version on your wiki to verify that the extension is successfully installed.
Template documentation

Usage

Installation instructions.

Template parameters[Edit template data]

This template prefers inline formatting of parameters.

ParameterDescriptionTypeStatus
Extension name1

Set the extension name manually.

Default
The current page name without namespace prefix.
Auto value
{{ROOTPAGENAME}}
Stringoptional
Git submodulegit-submodule

Add --recurse-submodules to the git clone command

Booleanoptional
Vagrant role namevagrant

If given, shows how to install extension with the Vagrant's enable-role command

Stringoptional
Download linkdownload-link

Overwrite the download link.

Default
Link to Special:ExtensionDistributor with the extension name.
URLoptional
LocalSettings earlylocalsettingsearly

Pass custom php code that the user should include in [[LocalSettings.php]] before the extension is loaded.

Example
$wgUseAjax = true; // Must be included before the extension is loaded
Unknownoptional
LocalSettingslocalsettings

Pass custom PHP code that the user should include in [[LocalSettings.php]].

Example
$wgUseAjax = true;
Unknownoptional
Database updatedb-update

If the extension has one or more database tables that need to be created through [[update.php]], set this parameter to any value.

Default
false
Booleanoptional
Composercomposer

If the extension uses [[Composer]] to manage dependencies, set this parameter to any value.

Default
false
Booleanoptional
Custom steps 0custom-steps0

Additional steps before download, e.g. other required extensions (as an unordered "* list")

Contentoptional
Custom stepscustom-steps

Additional steps (as an unordered "* list")

Contentoptional
Supports registrationregistration

Changes the template to use <code>wfLoadExtension()</code> if it supports registration. Set to any value if the extension supports registration, or to <code>required</code> if it <em>only</em> supports registration and doesn't support the old-style of loading.

Stringoptional
No registration versionno-registration-version

The MediaWiki version for which extension registration should not be used

Default
1.24
Unknownoptional

Examples

Below a few examples of how to use this template:

Simple

{{ExtensionInstall}}
  • Download and move the extracted MyExtension folder to your extensions/ directory.
    Developers and code contributors should install the extension from Git instead, using:cd extensions/
    git clone https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/mediawiki/extensions/MyExtension
  • Add the following code at the bottom of your LocalSettings.php file:
    require_once "$IP/extensions/MyExtension/MyExtension.php";
    
  • Yes Done – Navigate to Special:Version on your wiki to verify that the extension is successfully installed.

Name

{{ExtensionInstall|CategoryTree}}
  • Download and move the extracted CategoryTree folder to your extensions/ directory.
    Developers and code contributors should install the extension from Git instead, using:cd extensions/
    git clone https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/mediawiki/extensions/CategoryTree
  • Add the following code at the bottom of your LocalSettings.php file:
    require_once "$IP/extensions/CategoryTree/CategoryTree.php";
    
  • Yes Done – Navigate to Special:Version on your wiki to verify that the extension is successfully installed.
{{ExtensionInstall
|download-link=[http://bits.wikimedia.org/example.zip Download]
}}
  • Download and place the file(s) in a directory called MyExtension in your extensions/ folder.
  • Add the following code at the bottom of your LocalSettings.php file:
    require_once "$IP/extensions/MyExtension/MyExtension.php";
    
  • Yes Done – Navigate to Special:Version on your wiki to verify that the extension is successfully installed.

LocalSettings

{{ExtensionInstall
|localsettings=
$wgUseAjax = true;
}}
  • Download and move the extracted MyExtension folder to your extensions/ directory.
    Developers and code contributors should install the extension from Git instead, using:cd extensions/
    git clone https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/mediawiki/extensions/MyExtension
  • Add the following code at the bottom of your LocalSettings.php file:
    require_once "$IP/extensions/MyExtension/MyExtension.php";
    $wgUseAjax = true;
    
  • Yes Done – Navigate to Special:Version on your wiki to verify that the extension is successfully installed.

LocalSettings early

{{ExtensionInstall
|localsettingsearly=
$wgUseAjax = true; // This must be included before the extension is loaded
}}
  • Download and move the extracted MyExtension folder to your extensions/ directory.
    Developers and code contributors should install the extension from Git instead, using:cd extensions/
    git clone https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/mediawiki/extensions/MyExtension
  • Add the following code at the bottom of your LocalSettings.php file:
    $wgUseAjax = true; // This must be included before the extension is loaded
    require_once "$IP/extensions/MyExtension/MyExtension.php";
    
  • Yes Done – Navigate to Special:Version on your wiki to verify that the extension is successfully installed.

DB Update

{{ExtensionInstall
|db-update=Yes
}}
  • Download and move the extracted MyExtension folder to your extensions/ directory.
    Developers and code contributors should install the extension from Git instead, using:cd extensions/
    git clone https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/mediawiki/extensions/MyExtension
  • Add the following code at the bottom of your LocalSettings.php file:
    require_once "$IP/extensions/MyExtension/MyExtension.php";
    
  • Run the update script which will automatically create the necessary database tables that this extension needs.
  • Yes Done – Navigate to Special:Version on your wiki to verify that the extension is successfully installed.

Composer

{{ExtensionInstall
|composer=Yes
}}
  • Download and move the extracted MyExtension folder to your extensions/ directory.
    Developers and code contributors should install the extension from Git instead, using:cd extensions/
    git clone https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/mediawiki/extensions/MyExtension
  • Only when installing from Git, run Composer to install PHP dependencies, by issuing composer install --no-dev in the extension directory. (See task T173141 for potential complications.)
  • Add the following code at the bottom of your LocalSettings.php file:
    require_once "$IP/extensions/MyExtension/MyExtension.php";
    
  • Yes Done – Navigate to Special:Version on your wiki to verify that the extension is successfully installed.

Custom steps

{{ExtensionInstall
|custom-steps=
* Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet
* Foo bar baz quux [[sandbox]]
}}
  • Download and move the extracted MyExtension folder to your extensions/ directory.
    Developers and code contributors should install the extension from Git instead, using:cd extensions/
    git clone https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/mediawiki/extensions/MyExtension
  • Add the following code at the bottom of your LocalSettings.php file:
    require_once "$IP/extensions/MyExtension/MyExtension.php";
    
  • Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet
  • Foo bar baz quux sandbox
  • Yes Done – Navigate to Special:Version on your wiki to verify that the extension is successfully installed.

Support registration

{{ExtensionInstall
|registration=1
}}
  • Download and move the extracted MyExtension folder to your extensions/ directory.
    Developers and code contributors should install the extension from Git instead, using:cd extensions/
    git clone https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/mediawiki/extensions/MyExtension
  • Add the following code at the bottom of your LocalSettings.php file:
    wfLoadExtension( 'MyExtension' );
    
  • Yes Done – Navigate to Special:Version on your wiki to verify that the extension is successfully installed.

Support registration with minimum version

{{ExtensionInstall
|registration=1
|no-registration-version=1.39
}}
  • Download and move the extracted MyExtension folder to your extensions/ directory.
    Developers and code contributors should install the extension from Git instead, using:cd extensions/
    git clone https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/mediawiki/extensions/MyExtension
  • Add the following code at the bottom of your LocalSettings.php file:
    wfLoadExtension( 'MyExtension' );
    
  • Yes Done – Navigate to Special:Version on your wiki to verify that the extension is successfully installed.

To users running MediaWiki 1.39 or earlier:

The instructions above describe the new way of installing this extension using wfLoadExtension(). If you need to install this extension on these earlier versions (MediaWiki 1.39 and earlier), instead of wfLoadExtension( 'MyExtension' );, you need to use:

require_once "$IP/extensions/MyExtension/MyExtension.php";

This only works if the version specified is 1.35 or later, otherwise the template assumes nobody cares about ancient versions and falls back to #Require registration.

Require registration

{{ExtensionInstall
|registration=required
}}
  • Download and move the extracted MyExtension folder to your extensions/ directory.
    Developers and code contributors should install the extension from Git instead, using:cd extensions/
    git clone https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/mediawiki/extensions/MyExtension
  • Add the following code at the bottom of your LocalSettings.php file:
    wfLoadExtension( 'MyExtension' );
    
  • Yes Done – Navigate to Special:Version on your wiki to verify that the extension is successfully installed.

Everything

{{ExtensionInstall|Example
|download-link=[http://bits.wikimedia.org/example.zip Download]
|vagrant=example
|localsettings=
$wgUseAjax = true;

|db-update=Yes
|composer=Yes
|custom-steps=
* Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet
* Foo bar baz quux [[sandbox]]
|registration=yes
}}
  • Download and place the file(s) in a directory called Example in your extensions/ folder.
  • Only when installing from Git, run Composer to install PHP dependencies, by issuing composer install --no-dev in the extension directory. (See task T173141 for potential complications.)
  • Add the following code at the bottom of your LocalSettings.php file:
    wfLoadExtension( 'Example' );
    $wgUseAjax = true;
    
  • Run the update script which will automatically create the necessary database tables that this extension needs.
  • Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet
  • Foo bar baz quux sandbox
  • Yes Done – Navigate to Special:Version on your wiki to verify that the extension is successfully installed.

To users running MediaWiki 1.39 or earlier:

The instructions above describe the new way of installing this extension using wfLoadExtension(). If you need to install this extension on these earlier versions (MediaWiki 1.39 and earlier), instead of wfLoadExtension( 'Example' );, you need to use:

require_once "$IP/extensions/Example/Example.php";


Vagrant installation:

  • If using Vagrant , install with vagrant roles enable example --provision