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...

  1. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Mafs/RSS
  2. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/RSS_into_Wiki
  3. 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)

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

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