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README for the CategoryTree extension
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Copyright © 2006 Daniel Kinzler
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Licenses: GNU General Public Licence (GPL)
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GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL)
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The CategoryTree extension provides a dynamic view of the wiki's category
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structure as a tree. It uses AJAX to load parts of the tree on demand.
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<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CategoryTree_extension>
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The CategoryTree extension was originally written by Daniel Kinzler in
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2006 and is released under the GNU General Public Licence (GPL). The
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internationalization files contain contributions by several people;
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they are mentioned in each file individually. Also thanks to Tim Starling
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for his contributions.
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INSTALLING
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Copy the CategoryTree directory into the extensions folder of your
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MediaWiki installation. Then add the following lines to your
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LocalSettings.php file (near the end):
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$wgUseAjax = true;
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require_once( 'extensions/CategoryTree/CategoryTree.php' );
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Note that $wgUseAjax = true; will enable the ajax framework in MediaWiki,
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which is required by the CategoryTree extension. AJAX is a term for using
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JavaScript to load parts of a page on demand. It is supported by all
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recent graphic web browsers. For more information about AJAX see
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<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajax_%28programming%29>.
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USAGE
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CategoryTree can be used in three ways: directly on the category pages,
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as a "custom tag" to show a category structure inline on a wiki page,
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and as a special page.
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The CategoryTree extension replaces the subcategory section of category
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pages with a dynamic tree view. If Javascript is disabled, this appears
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as a plain list. The traditional multi column list view is available on
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demand.
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The custom tag is called <categorytree>. For example, if you put
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<categorytree>Foo</categorytree> on a wiki page, it will show the contents
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of category Foo as a dynamic tree on that page. The tag accepts three
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attributes, using a HTML-like syntax:
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* hideroot - set this to "on" to hide the "root" node of the tree, i.e.
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the mention of category Foo from the example.
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* mode - can be "categories" (the default), "pages" or "all". "categories"
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only lists subcategories; "pages" lists all pages in the category
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except images; "all" shows all pages in the category.
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* style - can be used to specify any CSS styles you would like for the
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tree.
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The special page is called Special:CategoryTree; there you can enter the
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name of a category and then browse it's content. The CategoryTree
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extension also adds a tab for this special page to every category page.
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OPTIONS
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There are some options you can specify in your LocalSettings.php file:
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$wgCategoryTreeMaxChildren - maximum number of children shown in a tree
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node. Default is 200
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$wgCategoryTreeAllowTag - enable <categorytree> tag. Default is true.
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$wgCategoryTreeDynamicTag - loads the first level of the tree in a
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<categorytag> dynamically. This way, the cache
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does not need to be disabled. Default is false
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$wgCategoryTreeDisableCache - disabled the parser cache for pages with a
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<categorytree> tag. Default is true.
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$wgCategoryTreeHTTPCache - enable HTTP cache for anon users. Default is
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false.
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