Mailing List Archive

On Thu, 02 Dec 2004 14:42:59 -0800, Amgine <amgine@saewyc.net> wrote:
> I'm trying to set up a main page with some elements similar to the
> Wikipedia, but would like to have a weekly featured article.
> {{CURRENTWEEK}} (giving the week of the year number 0-52) is not
> currently an available variable, but I suspect I could cobble together a
> method to calculate it, if I knew where in MediaWiki to stick it.

I think I'm right in saying that you'll need to make changes in
exactly three places:
1) at the top of includes/MagicWord.php:
* add "define(MAG_CURRENTWEEK, <some number not used yet>);"
* add "MAG_CURRENTWEEK" into the $wgVariableIDs array
[this defines the "magic word" within the software]

2) in languages/Language.php (and/or LanguageXx.php for the language
your wiki uses):
* add "MAG_CURRENTWEEK => array (1, 'CURRENTWEEK') , " into the
$wgMagicWordsEn array (or $wgMagicWords<langcode>, as appropriate)
[this defines what text your magic word matches]

3) in includes/Parser.php, function getVariableValue:
* add the code to actually deal with your new variable, something like:
case MAG_CURRENTWEEK:
return $wgContLang->formatNum( date('W') );

NB: According to the PHP manual at http://php.net/date, this will give
you weeks that start on Monday; and according to one comment there
"your last week of a year may be 1 [...] e.g. December 31th[sic] 2002
is in week 1 of the year 2003!"

Having gone this far, I could just give you a diff, but not knowing
what version you're running, and having generally rather destroyed my
local install anyway, I'll leave the rest to you.

--
Rowan Collins BSc
[IMSoP]

Rowan Collins wrote:
> NB: According to the PHP manual at http://php.net/date, this will give
> you weeks that start on Monday; and according to one comment there
> "your last week of a year may be 1 [...] e.g. December 31th[sic] 2002
> is in week 1 of the year 2003!"

The definition of week numbers used by the ISO 8601 standard (see
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html) does say that they start
on Monday, but they don't span years. The last week of a year is always
either 52 or 53, and like week 1, it may be a partial week. I believe
Palm OS works this way also. If PHP is doing things differently, it
sounds like a bug.
--
Michael Shields
Systems Programmer
AOL Network Security