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Sterling D. Allan wrote:
> As I study the code in the template/xhtml_slimt.pt document, I'm stumped as
> to how the syntax relates to how the files are named for the end user.
>
> The file [[Main_Page]] for the end user, in the wiki, points to the home
> page of the wiki.
>
> But in the xhtml_slimt.pt file, that page is defined as follows:
>
> <li id="n-mainpage"><a href="${nav_urls/mainpage/href}"
> i18n:translate="string:mainpage">Main Page</a></li>
>
> What I want to do is add more links in the navigation box to the main
> departments at peswiki.com

This takes data from an array set in SkinPHPTal.php. Search for "nav_urls".

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

(pertinent excerpts attached in txt)

Brion,

Okay, I've found SkinPHPTal.php and have found a set of lines that begin
"nav_urls" that correspond with the names of the files.

How to I generate a new nav_url line to correspond to a file I want?

Where are files I create, such as [[OS]] kept in the file structure? How do
I call for them in the SkinPHPTal.php code?

Thanks

Sterling

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brion Vibber" <brion@pobox.com>
To: "MediaWiki announcements and site admin list"
<mediawiki-l@Wikimedia.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 21, 2004 12:57 PM
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] modifying navigation links

> What I want to do is add more links in the navigation box to the main
> departments at peswiki.com

This takes data from an array set in SkinPHPTal.php. Search for "nav_urls".

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

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I studied the slimt_pt file where the left border is defined; and I studied
the SkinPJPTal_php file, where the "$nav_urls" are defined.

I can see how slimt_pt calls for information in the SkinPJPTal_php file.

It seems there is a third document (a table?) I need to know about that
equates the nav_url names in SkinPJPTal_php with the names as they appear in
the browser by the end user.

For example, the following code in the SkinPJPTal_php file:
$nav_urls['help'] = array('href' => htmlspecialchars(
$this->makeI18nUrl('helppage')));

corresponds to http://peswiki.com/index.php/Help:Contents

Where is that defined?

Another question. In the slimt_pt file there is a
i18n:translate="string:xyz" code for each of the links. I presume that each
language file will need to define a translation for each string I assign for
a given new link in the navigation, but that not doing so will not effect
the function of the slimt_pt file.

Thanks,

Sterling



----- Original Message -----
From: "Sterling D. Allan" <sterlingda@pureenergysystems.com>
To: "MediaWiki announcements and site admin list"
<mediawiki-l@Wikimedia.org>
Cc: "PES IT egroup" <pes_it@yahoogroups.com>; "LightServers.net Support"
<support@lightservers.net>
Sent: Saturday, August 21, 2004 4:02 PM
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] modifying navigation links


(pertinent excerpts attached in txt)

Brion,

Okay, I've found SkinPHPTal.php and have found a set of lines that begin
"nav_urls" that correspond with the names of the files.

How to I generate a new nav_url line to correspond to a file I want?

Where are files I create, such as [[OS]] kept in the file structure? How do
I call for them in the SkinPHPTal.php code?

Thanks

Sterling

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brion Vibber" <brion@pobox.com>
To: "MediaWiki announcements and site admin list"
<mediawiki-l@Wikimedia.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 21, 2004 12:57 PM
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] modifying navigation links

> What I want to do is add more links in the navigation box to the main
> departments at peswiki.com

This takes data from an array set in SkinPHPTal.php. Search for "nav_urls".

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

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If you're asking how to modify the text for a link, you can do it via
the link names in these tables:

MediaWiki:All_system_messages
and
YourWiki:All_system_messages (which seems to have the monobook
settings as well)

For example, there are entries help and tooltip-help, which you can
click on and edit if you have admin privileges.

I hope that's what you were asking.
Michelle

On Aug 23, 2004, at 1:53 PM, Sterling D. Allan wrote:
>
> It seems there is a third document (a table?) I need to know about that
> equates the nav_url names in SkinPJPTal_php with the names as they
> appear in
> the browser by the end user.