creating vaultwiki extensions

[Lord Doys]

I noticed in the DB structure there are some tables related to extensions for VW.
Is there some sort of extension guidelines available?

[pegasus]

That depends on the kind of extension you want to build, but the DB extensions table is used only to store description/author information about the extension for Special:Version.

There are not currently any public guidelines. Let me know what kind of extension you want to build and I'll try to describe what you need to do.

[Lord Doys]

I am currently rewriting the mediwaiki DPL extension (dynamicPageListing)
(if i knew up front what i was getting into...)

[Lord Doys]

I have converted the most common features of DPL that i use on birthright.net
- 2 files in extension (dpl.php and dpl_handle.php)
- 1 new BBcode [dpl] [/dpl]
- 1 plugin
- 2 templates (category style listing/ unordered list)

this all works, but the BBcode is not listed on the Special:Version page (under BB-Code Parser Tags)
And i would like it to have it listed under Extensions on that same page as well

[pegasus]

I'm not sure what the functionality of DPL is exactly. Make sure it won't bog down your server if the user decides to repeat it 10,000 times in 1 post (if it queries the database, e.g. ignore the tag if it was already used 3 times). Also make sure the user input is clean.

To list on Special:Version, you have to create 2 entries in the vault_extension table.

For the tag, just:

name = 'dpl', `type` = 'tag'

For the full extension:

name = 'Name of your extension',
author = 'your name or site',
authurl = 'your site',
description = 'a brief description of your extension',
`type` = 'parser',
product = 'productid from vbulletin product manager',
version = 'product version number'

[Lord Doys]

I'm not sure what the functionality of DPL is exactly. Make sure it won't bog down your server if the user decides to repeat it 10,000 times in 1 post (if it queries the database, e.g. ignore the tag if it was already used 3 times). Also make sure the user input is clean.

hmm dont think there is a limit in the mediawiki one.. good to have a max number of DPL tags on one page..

here is a link to the mediawiki one
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extens...28Wikimedia%29