In response to my query about adding OpenLayers to MediaWikia, here are the instructions based on my research and success at accomplishing this. Many thanks to Chris (as always), who got me to the right site to begin this discovery. John, here are the instructions.
For those of you who may not be too familiar with how MediaWikia works, it is a combination of PHP, MySQL and Apache to serve up pages that are stored in the database. It provides functionality to allow others to come into the site and add, modify and create new content. I am using MediaWikia to store my creative content. Step 1: Install MediaWikia. I used 11.0, the newest. You can find MediaWikia at: http://www.mediawiki.org. You will have to meet the pre-reqs for PHP, MySQL and Apache. If you want to play with this under Windows, find WAMP, a pre-configured package with PHP, MySQL and Apache on SourceForge. Step 2: The Semantic_Layers extension for MediaWikia has a pre-req of Semantic MediaWiki. This can be found at http://ontoworld.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki. Well, actually, the code is on SourceForge, be sure to get the 0.7 version as the Semantic_Layers doesn't work with the 1.0 (newest). It is an extension for MediaWiki as well. Install it according to the instructions and verify it is functioning. Part of the installation instructions are on the wiki and part are in the INSTALL document in the package. I am not sure what functionality in this extension is specifically required for the Semantic_Layers code, it adds quite a bit of "stuff" to the Wiki. Step 3: Install the Semantic_Layers extension. This can be found at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Semantic_Layers. I did this, created a page with one of the examples, and had Open_Layers on my Wiki. I am a bit curious about this going forward since it appears the Semantic_Layers extension includes the Open_Layers code as part of the extension. The trick now is in making the right code substitutions in Semantic_Layers in order to add layers, markers and map sources to the wikia. I'm off to experiment now. Regards, Robert J Becraft aka [EMAIL PROTECTED] aka [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users
