It sounds like a lot of the functionality you want - adding a class of objects to a page with properties - is already supported by the Semantic MediaWiki extensions. You can simply create a Semantic Form to add your new material, and fill in values for whatever properties you've defined in your wiki.
Then you can query a particular property, property value, or list all materials and properties in a tabular format using the Semantic Results Format extension. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Albert Coder Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2014 5:26 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [MediaWiki-l] Need help regarding MediaWiki-extension Hello! My name is Albert. I am making an extension in mediawiki which is capable of storing materials, values of their properties like tensile strength, specific heat etc., add new material, view all stored values of properties, import/export in CSV, JSON etc. format. But I have been able to do this to some extent with the help of two extensions. First extension[1]-> Can add new material, add values for the properties of that material. Second extension[2]-> Can show the all the materials and values of their properties with their timestamp in tabular form. The code of first extension can be seen at [3]. And the code of second extension can be seen at [4]. How can I merge the functionalities of both these extensions to make a single extension? I wish to embed the code of second extension in my first extension. I tried doing this by writing the code of second extension in a new class which extends SpecialPage class within main file of my first extension and then included the name of the new class in $wgAutoloadClasses[' ']. I am not sure if this method is right. In short I wish to have a link "view all properties" on my special page of first extension such that the code of my second extension gets executed and shows all properties. Another query is that I wish to make certain forms like add new property, add new material-type, add new property-type and so on. How can I navigate those forms with the hyperlinks on the special page of my first extension. Or how can I add new pages or special pages perhaps in my extension to achieve the required functionality? I tried to study linker class from [5] but I could not understand because of absence of examples. Also I tried to get help from #mediawiki IRC but could not earn much. Being a beginner I feel it too tough to get a clear view of how to use the inbuilt functions of mediawiki. I would be grateful if you share/help me with a simple extension which clears all my doubts as above. Please see the two extensions working at [1] and [2] respectively. [1]-> http://202.164.53.122/~albertcoder/mediawiki-1.22.6/index.php/Special:Mat_ext [2]-> http://202.164.53.122/~albertcoder/mediawiki-1.22.6/index.php/Special:Joins [3]-> https://github.com/albertcoder/MaterialsDatabase (Specialmat_ext.php has all the coding) [4]-> https://github.com/albertcoder/SqlJoinsMediawiki (SpecialJoins.php has all the coding) [5]-> doc.wikimedia.org/ -- Thanks Albert www.coderalbert.wordpress.com " Eat Sleep Conquer Repeat " _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
