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langm

Reputation: 43

Add custom tab to all pages in MediaWiki

I've got a MediaWiki site and I would like to add a tab with a very simple "read article" functionality (without any edit/comment options). I followed the manual and tried to create a namespace for it, but it still doesn't work.

The snippet from LocalSettings.php looks like this:

define("NS_ARTICLE", 500);
$wgExtraNamespaces[NS_ARTICLE] = "Article";

$wgNamespaceProtection[NS_ARTICLE] = array( '' ); 
$wgNamespacesWithSubpages[NS_ARTICLE] = true;

$wgContentNamespaces[] = NS_ARTICLE;

I created new methods in Title.php:

public function getReadPage() {
    return Title::makeTitle( MWNamespace::getRead( NS_ARTICLE ), $this->getDBkey() );
}

In Namespace.php:

public static function getRead( $index ) {
    self::isMethodValidFor( $index, __METHOD__ );
    return self::isTalk( $index )
        ? $index
        : $index + 1;
}

And in SkinTemplate.php:

$readPage = $title->getReadPage();
$content_navigation['namespaces']['article']['class'] = 'selected';
$content_navigation['namespaces']['article']['text'] = 'Article';
$content_navigation['namespaces']['article']['href'] = $readPage;
$content_navigation['namespaces']['article']['primary'] = true;
$content_navigation['namespaces']['article']['context'] = 'subject';

The Tab appeared, but it links to ":Title" instead of "Article:Title". If I look for "Article:Title" page, the following message appears:

There is currently no text in this page. You can search for this page title in other pages, search the related logs, or edit this page.

Any ideas?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 404

Answers (1)

MaxSem
MaxSem

Reputation: 3547

Don't touch the MediaWiki sources or you'll have to redo the same thing each time you upgrade. Tab manipulation is doable with hooks, e.g. SkinTemplateNavigation.

Upvotes: 2

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