Topic on Extension talk:Loops

Can this extension be used to loop through predetermined arrays to create a nicely formatted table? I want to be able to call a template (eg Journal), which defines two array-style parameters (stage and journal, with values being comma delimited [eg stage=0,10,20,30 and entry=test,test,test]) and generates a row for each (starting the row with

, with each iteration placing the next value from each into each ), but all I get are "maximum loops reached" and poorly created tables. Please assist, thanks.

Use Extension:Scribunto instead of hacky extensions like this one.

@110.149.188.132: Alrighty, time for me to learn a new scripting language! Thanks.

Since the editing box is broken....

I looked into Scribunto, it looks quite complicated and I'm not very good with interpreter style languages like that. I understand it's "hacky", but if I could pull off what I want using just generic MediaWiki extensions like Loops and Arrays, I would appreciate any advice. :)

You can increase the maximum allowed loops, but it has a limit there for a reason. It would have pretty poor performance. Making a loop in lua is simple.

local p = {}
p.loop = function(frame)
	local stage = frame.args.stage
	local rows = {}
	-- the actual looping part
	for value in mw.text.gsplit(stage, ',') do
		table.insert(rows, '|' .. value)
	end
	
	return ' {|\n' .. table.concat(rows, '\n|-\n') .. '\n|}'
end
return p

This outputs each value on a separate row. I'm not sure exactly what format of table you're looking for, but maybe you get the gist of it?

Making a loop in PhpTags is simpler for me :-)

It is the same:

$stage = explode( ',', $argv['stage'] );
$rows = [];
// the actual looping part
foreach( $stage as $value ) {
	$rows[] = '|' . $value;
}
echo "\n{|\n" . implode( "\n|-\n", $rows ) . "\n|}";

Demo

Have more fun!

Thanks for the posts. @Pastakhov: Sorry, that won't work because this is for a Wikia wiki, so yeah....

@110.149.188.132: Thanks! I'll have a look at the code and see if I can piece it together.