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I'm wondering if DPL can help with my situation. I would like to recreate the "What Links Here" page functionality on an article page. Basically each article would show all of the other pages/articles that refer to it? I've read through this site and it seems DPL is the answer, but I havent read anything specific to this. I'm pretty new to the whole WIKI so sorry if this is the wrong forum for this...

Dsilve 02:03, 18 January 2008 (CET)

This is very easy with DPL. Just use linksto with PAGENAME or FULLPAGENAME. Example:
Pages linking to the current page:

Extension:DynamicPageList (DPL), version 3.2.1: Warning: No results.

Gero 08:07, 18 January 2008 (CET)

Err... Why not create the FAQ using a DPL?

Each FAQ goes into a separate page, and the DPL lists them all. I actually tried this on my own site... the problem was that I wanted to create a TOC to list the questions at the top of the page, so I did something like "==%TITLE%==", however, the TOC appeared to be inside the DPL!

This was a problem because I wanted to split the FAQ into sections like Technical questions and General questions, which is naturally acheived by subcategories of the FAQ category, then I used a separate DPL for each subcategory. This messed up because ... er TOC was messy? I gave up in the end.

Just thought though! --Dmb 22:16, 15 September 2007 (CEST)

Further, the articles would be sorted by hits... FAQ baby! This would be displayed on a page with a 'create an answer' inputbox. I dare you to say it should not be so! (Make it so?) --Dmb 22:18, 15 September 2007 (CEST)

I'm trying to work on this website
http://www.collaborativelandscape.org/wiki/ARCH_728_2007
We are using DPL to make categories.
If you'll look under Department/University Resources there are two pages,
NDSU Homepage and Architectural Department Homepage that I want to actually link to external pages.
NDSU Homepage needs to direct people to www.ndsu.edu

I've tried creating a page called NDSU_Homepage and then from there redirecting people to http://www.ndsu.edu but that doesn't work for some reason it just leaves me at the redirect page.

My category code looks like: <br> |align="left" width="33%" style="background-color:#FFFFFF; border-top:1px solid #808080; border-bottom:1px solid #808080;padding-top:10px; padding-right:10px; padding-left:0px; padding-bottom:10px;" valign="top"| <h2 style="margin:0;background:#f3f3f3;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:120%;font-weight:bold;border:1px solid #808080;text-align:left;color:#000;padding-left:0.4em;padding-top: 0.2em;padding-bottom:0.2em;">'''[[:Category:Department/University Resources|Department/University Resources]]'''</h2>

<DPL>
category=Department/University Resources
ordermethod=title
order=ascending
redirects=include
count=10
</DPL>

My redirect page looks like:
#REDIRECT [http://www.ndsu.edu]
[[Category:Department/University Resources]]
Do you have any suggestions? Thanks

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1. Wiki redirects expect a wiki PAGE link not an url.
2. So your problem has nothing to do with DPL
3. Your Homepage looks nice but the wiki code contains many pieces which are very similar. You should consider to put the DPL statement into a template page (you must use DPL parser function syntax in that case). Maybe also some of your layout-related code could be moved to such a template.

Gero 09:56, 7 November 2007 (CET)

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Ok I'll take a look at templates that'd be great to keep our pages to a similar design. However are you saying there is no way to have a link under my dpl category that directs people to an outside site? Or is there a way and I'm just missing it?

You can always create links to outside URLs as part of normal wiki text or as part of DPL output. But the #REDIRECT does not accept external URLS. You would have to use javascript to create an automatic forwarding. See the source of the following DPL statement: Link to Google coming from DPL output ...

Could you help me, please?

I need a little query, which lists all images used by a given article. It would be such simple ...:

{{#dpl:
|namespace=image
|linksfrom={{FULLPAGENAME}}
}}

... if linksfrom would list links to image-pages, but it doesn't :-(
Any idea? Sorry for my lack of English ... --WiMu 11:54, 30 April 2008 (CEST)

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There was a similar request recently which lead to the new command imageused. But this works the other way round: it finds all articles which contain a certain image. See Issue:Imagelinks criteria. Maybe you can extend the code in a similar way? Upload an enhanced version of the source and I will test, document and publish it as part of the next release .. Gero 12:19, 30 April 2008 (CEST)

Thanks for the quick reply. I already know the imageused-function; well ... I could do something like this:

<dpl>
resultsheader={{#dpl: imageused=
resultsfooter=|titlematch={{FULLPAGENAME}}}}
namespace=image
mode=inline
inlinetext=|
</dpl>

... (this will not work as the inner query shows links instead of plain text ... but you got the idea?). However in "my" Wiki we have about 5000 images, so this will not work anyway. I'm sorry, but I have no idea how to extend the code as I'm still new to php ... but I'll take a look at it. Greetings --WiMu 13:14, 30 April 2008 (CEST)

For somebody who knows programming in general, php is not too hard to understand. Much easier than perl I would say, and a little more comfortable than java because it is more a script language than a traditional, strongly typed language. Anyway, the kind of change you would have to make is not so big. Maybe 50 lines of code. And you really do not have to understand the whole source text to add your feature...

5000 images should not be the problem if the SQL code that is generated by DPL is efficiently designed. Gero 16:34, 30 April 2008 (CEST)