Mailing List Archive: How can I remove PHPSESSID? How can I add a form to printable template?

Hello mediawiki-l,

Thanks to Brion, I managed it to install a mirror of the German
Wikipedia. To make it very simple, I configured the mod_rewrite
with the .htacces so that everything links to the printable
version. Since all the edit stuff isn't working anyway.

Sometimes, when I open a link, I get the link with a
?PHPSESSID=9308d65a897e0712a32cfd or something like that in the
end. How do I disable that? It makes the links longer, some search
engines wont spider me and I don't want to track my visitors.

My next question: I want to add a Google search form at the top
of every site (http://www.google.com/intl/en/searchcode.html#both)
I tried to just edit the LanguageDe.php since it contains the
static text on the sites, but it didn't work out. Is the
Skin.php the template? I couldn't figure it out how to add the
html code there.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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Best regards,
Freerk mailto:freerk@gmx.net

On Nov 20, 2003, at 07:25, Freerk wrote:
> Sometimes, when I open a link, I get the link with a
> ?PHPSESSID=9308d65a897e0712a32cfd or something like that in the
> end. How do I disable that? It makes the links longer, some search
> engines wont spider me and I don't want to track my visitors.

The wiki uses a session cookie to deal with logins primarily. PHP's
default settings for its session cookie stuff is to _also_ put crap in
your URLs if the cookie's not present, which causes no end of trouble.
To get rid of the URL crap but keep the cookie, set
"session.use_only_cookies" to 1 in your php.ini (or use ini_set or
such).

If you aren't ever going to have logins, then you don't need it at all.
Find the session_start() etc in Setup.php I think and comment those
lines out.

> My next question: I want to add a Google search form at the top
> of every site (http://www.google.com/intl/en/searchcode.html#both)
> I tried to just edit the LanguageDe.php since it contains the
> static text on the sites, but it didn't work out. Is the
> Skin.php the template? I couldn't figure it out how to add the
> html code there.

Skin.php is hella ugly, sorry.

You probably want to be looking at Skin::doBeforeContent() or so. A lot
of stuff gets cut out of the printable version, of course.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

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