Re: [Phpwiki-talk] Interwiki map extension for visually friendlier links?

[Reini U. <ru...@x-...>]

Dan Frankowski schrieb:
> I want to enable the creation of user-friendly lists of restaurants, 
> like "my top 10 favorites". I also want that those restaurants have a 
> clear owner (perhaps optional), and a list 'type' (like "favorite").
> 
> Thus, the owner and type need to
> 
> a) be computer-parsable (i.e. I can parse it out of the page)
> b) show up visually nice
> 
> It felt to me like the interwiki-map-style URLs are very close to this, 
> but I'd also like to control the look and feel of the link in the map. 
> So, right now, if I define a line in InterWikiMap
> 
>  ListOwner http:/index.php/ShowLists?user=%s
> 
> and put a link on a page
> 
> ListOwner:DanFr
> 
> it will nicely redirect that link to a plugin (if I write one, which I 
> haven't).
> 
> However, I don't want to see "ListOwner:DanFr" on the rendered page, I 
> want to see
> 
>  Click to see DanFr's other lists.
> 
> or something, which is all clickable.
> 
> so I thought about trying to expand the InterWikiMap syntax to something 
> like
> 
>  ListOwner http:/index.php/ShowLists?user=%s Click to see %s's other lists
> 
> where all stuff after the 2nd column is the "display" of the link (if 
> present).
> 
> I can actually see using this quite a bit, because we are having an 
> increasing number of situations where we want simple machine-parseable 
> attributes on a page (like "ListOwner", "ListType", "Buddies:", etc. 
> etc.), but we'd like it to look friendlier.
> 
> Is that a good idea? Is there a better way?

CSS and javascript tricks could also render the link differently.
See the monobook theme, which changes a lot of links.

We have e.g. this in main.css:
#bodyContent a[href ^="http://"],
#bodyContent a[href ^="gopher://"] {
     background: url("images/url.png") center right no-repeat;
     padding-right: 13px;
}

> If it is a good idea, what are the right places to look at doing this? I 
> looked a little at InlineParser.php around LinkBracketLink line 365 
> (which is where it says getInterwikiMap()). Is this where all the 
> Interwiki magic happens? If no answer here, I will pursue this myself 
> next week, but I thought someone might have hints.

In PageType.php:PageType_interwikimap the map is read.
In various locations in InlineParser.php the (huge) interwiki regex is 
checked.
The most likely usage is class Markup_interwiki.
bracket links are normally not used for interwiki maps.
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Reini Urban
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