My blog

What is my blog

My Blog is a MediaWiki extension that allows a blogger to the user's menu. It allows each user to have the capabilities to create blog entries and to have their blog entries listed under the "Most Recent Blogs" from the Navigation Menu. The "Most Recent Blogs" ties back to the extension Dynamic Article List for PHP4.

Note: Most up to date version of this extension can be found at: http://www.chekmate.org/wiki/index.php/Projects

Maintainer

Shannon McNaught (smcnaught)

Homepage

ChekMate Technical Focus Group

License

SpecialPageListSubBlogs.php/SpecialPagesListAllBlogs.php 
  - Adds Blog functionality to MediaWiki

Copyright (C) 2005  Shannon McNaught

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
of the License, or any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301, USA.

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Issues Reported

One user has reported:

too bad...couldn't get it going on my wiki...line 306 (MW 1.6.5) giving problems... ** RESOLVED ** Source Code has been updated. See Discussion for more details.

This has only been tested on MediaWiki: 1.5.5 and a quick test on 1.6.5, 1.6.8 and 1.7.0. If others could comment on their experiences on installations and versions, it would be appreciated.

Installation

Add Extensions to the Extensions Folder

My Blog was created from User:Joshurtree/SpecialListSubPages.

Add these files to the extensions directory:

Making "my blog" in the user menu

link is in /includes/SkinTemplate.php
Look for

 /* set up the default links for the personal toolbar */
 $personal_urls = array();
 if ($this->loggedin) {

Down a few lines, right before "$href = $this->makeSpecialURL('Preferences');" Added:

                       $personal_urls['myblog'] = array(
                               'text' => "my blog",
                               'href' => $this->makeSpecialUrl("ListSubBlogs/User:$this->username")
                       );

Making "Most Recent Blogs" in the Navigation Menu

Go to MediaWiki:Sidebar http://YourHost/wiki/index.php/MediaWiki:Sidebar

Edit Page and Add:

** recentblog-url|recentblog

Edit http://YourHost/wiki/index.php/MediaWiki:recentblog-url and Add:

Special:ListAllBlogs/

Edit http://YourHost/wiki/index.php/MediaWiki:recentblog

Most Recent Blogs

Add Extensions to your LocalSettings.php

require_once("extensions/SpecialPageSubBlogs.php");
require_once("extensions/SpecialPagesAllBlogs.php");

Change Log

version 0.01b - First release.

Screenshot

File:MW-Blog.png

Online Examples

See online example at http://www.chekmate.org/wiki/.

You will need to create an account to see your personal "my blog" page.

References

User:Joshurtree/SpecialListSubPages.

Blog Dynamic Article List Report

Added a dynamic summary report to be displayed on the front page to show recent blog entries.

Dynamic Article List

Other sites using this extension

ChekMate Technical Focus Group