DPL:Requests for new features
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- Please add requests for new features at the beginning of this document. If possible make syntax suggestions and give an example for the desired behaviour!
- Old requests (which have been resolved) can be found in the DPL:Requests for new features Archive.
Be PostgreSQL compliant
Request
As of DPL 1.1.7, usage of DPL in a PostgreSQL-based MediaWiki requires further effort, which I describe in DPL:Manual - DPL with PostgreSQL.
- I don't know if there is a common syntax between MySQL and PostgreSQL for the database functions - if not, my solution is easy to install.
- But the need for a patch is really nasty. I think with my patch, DPL still works with MySQL as well. If so, could you kindly incorporate it.
I'd be curious if you consider this a feature request or a bug report…
Multiple columns with headingmode
Request
Maybe this is doable already but I couldn't figure it out: I want to use ordermethod=category,sortkey and headingmode but I want it in multi-column form (or have more user control regarding the output format). There's a column parameter but it doesn't seem to work with headingmode. Another possibility is if I could use mode=userformat and somehow simulate the behavior of multi-column headingmode. I realize that the columns might not be all the same length as there could be different number of pages in each category. I think the simplest implementation would be to put one category heading in each column and ignore the list under each category.
rss feed from dpl
Request
A DPL might also have an according RSS feed. For example, a calendar might give a feed with the upcoming events from now on. --Eiland 09:30, 16 April 2007 (CEST).
Response
I haven´t worked with RSS generation so far. Is there a php library or a mediwiki module for that purpose? --Gero 22:08, 23 April 2007 (CEST)
- Plenty of MediaWiki Extensions for RSS... should be easy to integrate with DPL :) --141.14.26.126 13:16, 29 April 2007 (CEST)
- Which one would you suggest? Can you do the integration? Gero 20:12, 2 May 2007 (CEST)
Request
I have a similar request... Make each DPL into an RSS feed! --Dmb 11:20, 1 June 2007 (CEST)
Wait... that was me talking ... I just recognized my IP... (oh my memory!)
Well... you could start by looking here...
- http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Mafs/RSS
- http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/RSS_into_Wiki
- http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/GISWiki/RSS
That should certainly help with the details. Unfortunately I cannot do the integration myself or I would happily do it immediately. Thanks for the brilliant product and keep up the good work! --Dmb 11:24, 1 June 2007 (CEST)
Create a special page for searching pages with DPL
Request
- It could be interesting to have a special page that does a search based on a DPL. The DPL parameters would be set in a form (that could be enhanced in time with some common values).
- The current search functionality in Mediawiki is quite limited, and DPL adds much power here.
- Example: I want all the pages edited by user X in category Y and category Z, etc...
- This is just a random idea, as I sometime had to query by editing a page and doing a preview without saving. Being able to do a DPL search and get a result set on a page without having to edit a page would be nice.
--Ycombarnous 14:55, 10 April 2007 (CEST)
Reply
- I created the base frame for such a "specials" page. But I will not have time to work on it. See the source archive, and feel free to start coding. -- Gero 19:44, 21 April 2007 (CEST)
- I know it's quite a lot of work. I will try and make a static proposal for the page, and work on it as time allows. thanks. --Ycombarnous 10:32, 23 April 2007 (CEST)
- I also thought this would be useful so I implemented something very simple and more general. It's a special page that is a generic wikitext parser (and so works with DPL and any other parser extension). It lets you bookmark a link to a search query via DPL for example. See here for an example. The source code is here. --Austin
- This looks interesting, Austin! Maybe we can build a simple solution based on your extension --Gero 20:17, 26 April 2007 (CEST)
- Well, there is a first trial version of DPL-special-page available with version 1.1.4. I started with the code from Austin and added my ideas. Have a look! --Gero 14:48, 30 April 2007 (CEST)
- It's a good start, but I was actually thinking more to someting like Bugzilla boolean charts (go to a bugzilla install, in "advanced search", and see the section at bottom (called Advanced Searching Using Boolean Charts). Basically, you have per line:
- the field you want to set a value on
- the type of matching you look for (would correspond to match / in / not in for DPL)
- and finally your value
- in addition, you can add as many lines as you want
- It would require some javascripting telling for each field the corresponding matching available, plus if several lines use the same field with different criteria, a concatention would be needed. What do you think? --Ycombarnous 17:07, 30 April 2007 (CEST)
- What you described would certainly be a much better way to implement it. I was only looking for a "developer´s help tool" which offers the big variety of available parameters and allows a quick trial&error-cycle. I will not find time to do anything beyond that, I´m afraid.
- Gero 20:10, 2 May 2007 (CEST)
Simple Forms extension
Extension:SimpleForms can work very well with DPL, it's still under development, but the DPL example on the page works and is a basis for making more complex query forms/reports. OrganicDesign main page shows the example working. --Nad 03:31, 29 April 2007 (CEST)
display Table of Contents for an article
Request
the incudepage feature could be enhanced to include the TOC only; a %TOC% variable would ebe useful ...
Better error handling
"%DPL-1.2.5-WARNING: No results!" is a tad bit vague (note the sarcasm). -Eep² 12:40, 24 July 2007 (CEST)
- What do you expect instead? Did you notice the 'noresultsheader' option? Gero 20:30, 24 July 2007 (CEST)
Output Format suited for SpecialExport
Would it be possible to have an 'output format' that would be more suited for 'cut and pasting' to Special:Export ?
The use-case is the following:
- User creates a DPL query on 'My Pages To Export'
- User saves the page 'My Pages To Export'
- User views the said page & 'cut and paste' the result from the view into 'Special:Export'
- User exports pages
Reply (with example)
This should be fairly easy to do. Try something like
{{#dpl:mode=userformat|titlematch=Ca%|listseparators=,\n %PAGE%,}}
Note the leading colons and the slashes for subpages. I think you could paste this result directly into the export textarea.
Cache Demo 2 Cannot perform logical operations Calendar zh-tw/Demo Call extension Cache API Cache Demo 1 Calendar zh-tw Calendar Cameroon Talk:Calendar zh-tw Talk:Call extension Talk:Cache API Talk:Calendar User:Capmo User talk:Capmo :File:Calendarerror.jpg :File:Catlist error msg 001.png :File:Calendar templates-20071124.xml Template:Calendar link zh-tw Template:Car.list Template:Calendar navigation Template:Category with count Template:CatTreeSub Template:Calendar anchor Template:Category handler/numbered Template:Car Template:CatTree Template:Calendar/MonthStartThu Template:Calendar/MonthStartTue Template:Calendar/MonthStartWed Template:Calendar/MonthStartFri Template:CategoryGallery Template:Calendar/MonthStartMon Template:Calendar/MonthStartSat Template:Calendar/MonthStartSun Template:Category handler/blacklist Template:Calendar link Template:Calendar month Template:Calendar month zh-tw Template:Category handler Template:CalendarSingle Template:Catgraph Template:CalendarSingle zh-tw Template:Catlist1 Template:Catlist Template:Catlist zh Template:Catlist/zh Template:Catlist/zh 2 Template talk:Calendar link Template talk:CatTree Template talk:Calendar month Template talk:CalendarSingle Template talk:Catlist :Category:Cat d'Test :Category:Café :Category:Cat 2 :Category:Cat 1 :Category:Cat 11 :Category:Cat 12 :Category:Car :Category:Category :Category:Café d'Anvers :Category:Calendar Templates DPL:Catlist DPL talk:Catlist Issue:Calendar - combine create event and dayview Issue:Cannot include a template call that uses a 2nd template variable Issue:Calendar : Current event + create event Issue:Caching on Mediawiki 1.13 Issue:Calendar create event bug Issue:Call - passing a variable twice Issue:Category names with ampersand not found? Issue:Category browsing with title from / until Issue:Calendar - without event template Issue:Call-time pass-by-reference Issue:Calendar - ical / template Issue:Call-time pass-by-reference dpl 1.7.9 mw 1.13 Issue:Call-time pass-by-reference deprecated Issue:Category=*somecategory combined with ordermethod=category,sortkey does not list subpages Issue:Calendar - range Issue:Category:New format symbols: %PREV% and %NEXT% Issue:Categorymatch=with apostrophe Issue:Can't call a EmbedVideo extension with the Parser function method Issue:Category option that does AND operation to multiple parameters Issue:Caching Issue:Call to a member function getPrefixedDBkey() on a non-object
Furthermore, it should not be too complicated to set up a nice little collection of GUI widgets which offer drop down boxes for categories to the user, etc..
See the comments above regarding the DPL special page.
I would be glad if somebody came up with a nice "My Pages To Export" page based on DPL. I am not sure whether you would really need a hook or php call level communication for that purpose...
- Gero 20:51, 24 July 2007 (CEST)
Hook based data exchange between extensions
Would it be possible to add a 'hook' (i.e. wfRunHooks) to DPL? Once a 'query' is finished executing, the result could be signaled to other interested extensions. A 'context id' would be required as potentially many queries could co-exist on the same page. I would suggest adding a parameter such as 'context=' OR just a linear incremental counter.
A 'no output' option would be great also - this way, if the query is really meant to be consumed by another extension, the user isn't distracted by the result from DPL directly. mw:user:jldupont
