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MediaWiki Developer's Handbook/Adding new tags
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To create a parser extension for a new tag just requires a few lines of code:
<? php
if( !defined( 'MEDIAWIKI' ) ) {
die( "This file is part of MediaWiki and is not a valid entry point\n" );
}
$wgExtensionFunctions[] = 'myNewTagInit';
$wgExtensionCredits['myNewTag'][]= array(
'name' => 'myNewTag Extension',
'version' => '1.0.0',
'author' => 'Your Name',
'url' => 'http://www.your.com/mynewtag/',
'description' => 'This extension is for demonstration only.');
function myNewTagInit() {
global $wgParser;
$wgParser->setHook( "myNewTag", "myNewTagParse" );
}
function myNewTagParse($content, $params, $parser ) {
return "My ''''fancy'''' output";
}
?>
For testing create a subdirectory mediawikipath/extensions/mynewtag. Save the coding there as myNewTag.php. Add the following line to LocalSettings.php:
require_once "$IP/extensions/mynewtag/myNewTag.php";
Now create a new mediawiki page
<mynewtag />
and save it.
The output will look like this:
My 'fancy' output