Extension:MiniCity

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Purpose

This extension is meant to process the XML data from a myminicity.com site and present information to a user to assist in choosing a link.

Features

  • Will work with any myminicity.com site

Audience

This extension is meant for wiki authors who have a myminicity.com site.

Usage 

<minicity>http://yoursite.myminicity.com/xml</minicity>

Examples

See MUSHpark city.

Dependancy

None.

Installation

  • Copy the below code to extensions/minicity.php 
<?php

$wgExtensionFunctions[] = 'registerMiniCity';

$wgExtensionCredits['parserhook'][] = array(
         'name' => 'MiniCity',
         'version' => '0.31',
         'author' =>'Minuet@CrossroadsMUSH',
         'url' => 'http://www.crossroadsmush.com/wiki/Extension:MiniCity',
         'description' => 'Grabs xml data from myminicity.com'
    );

function registerMiniCity() {
    global $wgParser;
    $wgParser->setHook('minicity', 'renderMiniCity');
}

function renderMiniCity($url) {

    $f = fopen($url, 'r');
    while (!feof($f)) {
        $document = fread($f, 1024);
    }

    $document = preg_replace('<\?xml version="1\.0" encoding="UTF-8"\?>','',$document);
    $document = preg_replace('<city>','',$document);
    $document = preg_replace('<\/city>','',$document);
    $document = preg_replace("/<host>.*<\/host>/",'',$document);
    $document = preg_replace("/<name>.*<\/name>\n/",'',$document);
    $document = preg_replace("/<region code\=\".*?\">/",'<region>',$document);
    $document = preg_replace("/<nextnuke>.*<\/nextnuke>\n/",'',$document);
    $document = preg_replace("/<signatures>.*<\/signatures>\n/",'',$document);
    $document = preg_replace("/<(.+?) (.+?)\/>/",'<${1}>${2}</${1}>',$document);
    $document = preg_replace("/<(.+?)>(.*?)<\/\\1>/",'<li>${1}: ${2}</li>',$document);
    $document = preg_replace("/<>/",'',$document);

    return('<ul>' . $document . '</ul>');
}

?>
  • Add the following line to LocalSettings.php near the bottom (but before the ?>): 
include_once('extensions/minicity.php');
  • Note that if you have enabled a cache on your wiki (on by default) then the page might not be updated. To be sure you get current data, include ?action=purge at the end of the URL when calling it.

History

  • 0.3 - 12/19/07 - Initial release
  • 0.31 - 12/20/07 - Updated for region code
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