Talk:Resultsheaderwithcolumns

Any reason why columns doesn't work right when used in a template? -—Eep² 13:40, 2 February 2010 (UTC)

Probably yes ;-) The question might be: is it "bug or feature"? What problem are you exactly talking of? Gero 18:03, 2 February 2010 (UTC)

Well, you know how DPL can be called as a tag (<dpl>...</dpl>) or as a template ({{#dpl:...}})? Well, using columns inside the DPL template causes the wiki table markup to show but fails to render as a table:

DPL Example 015 Issue:Includematch does not filter results Republic of Burundi

Republic of Cameroon Republic of Cape Verde United Republic of Tanzania

Category:North Africa

Which, for some reason, renders like this on my wiki:

{|

|

    * Entry
    * Entry
    * Entry

|valign=top|

    * Entry
    * Entry
    * Entry

|valign=top|

    * Entry
    * Entry

|valign=top|

|}

But I haven't upgraded in a while so that might be the problem. -—Eep² 03:37, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

So I upgrade to the latest version, but now I get this error:

Fatal error: Call to a member function getText() on a non-object in .../httpdocs/wiki/includes/Parser.php on line 3715

Any ideas? All I did was copy all of DPL's files to a new extensions subfolder, then add this to LocalSettings.php:

require_once("$IP/extensions/DynamicPageList/DynamicPageList2.php"); 	#4

And commenting out the line for the old version:

#require_once("$IP/extensions/DynamicPageList2/DynamicPageList2.php"); 	#4

-—Eep² 04:10, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

I notice my user page test also generates a similar error:

Fatal error: Call to a member function getNamespace() on a non-object in /www/htdocs/w0057617/dpldemo/extensions/SimpleForms/SimpleForms.php on line 457

—Eep² 04:27, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

Reply

I can reproduce the effect you describe if I use a resultsheader without trailing newline:

7 pages in total.{| |

• DPL Example 015
• Issue:Includematch does not filter results
• Republic of Burundi

|valign=top|

• Republic of Cameroon
• Republic of Cape Verde
• United Republic of Tanzania

|valign=top|

• Category:North Africa

|valign=top|

|}

Is that the reason?

The problem with getText() could lie in the version of your MW version. MW changed the interface (somwhen in 1.13 I believe) - so you might need a more recent version of MW to use the latest version of DPL.

BTW: In my opinion the example in the manual works correctly (you only have to put in a category name which exists in this wiki, like 'Fictitios country':

Rank Article Bytes 1. DPL Example 007 main page 1 114 2. Nigunda Test 454

Rank Article Bytes 3. Somango 663 4. Nigunda 1119

Gero 15:41, 4 February 2010 (UTC)