373238 - Install ParserFuncs, StringFuncs, and RDF MediaWiki extensions

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(mozilla.org Graveyard :: Server Operations: Projects, task)

Description

[Eric Shepherd [:sheppy]]

For some updates to MDC we plan to do, these extensions will be needed.  These should be installed on staging once the staging upgrade to MediaWiki 1.9.x has been done and tested, so that we can work on our new breadcrumbs and other templates.

Comment 1

[Jeremy Orem [:oremj]]

Moving these two bugs into Server Operations: Projects as it is more of a project.

Comment 2

[Eric Shepherd [:sheppy]]

These extensions are at these URLs:

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ParserFunctions
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/StringFunctions

Comment 3

[Eric Shepherd [:sheppy]]

I'm working on adding these extensions.  StringFunctions requires the mbstring PHP extension.  Do we have that installed?  It's not part of the standard install of PHP, but is required for support of multibyte characters, so there's a fair chance we do have it.

Comment 4

[Jeremy Orem [:oremj]]

Yes we have mbstring.

Comment 5

[Jeremy Orem [:oremj]]

Also, I'll need to put these in the settings file when you have them ready.

Comment 6

[Eric Shepherd [:sheppy]]

OK, I've committed the extensions into the repository.  The docs for them say these lines need to be added to the settings file:

require_once( "$IP/extensions/ParserFunctions/ParserFunctions.php" );
require_once ("$IP/extensions/StringFunctions/StringFunctions.php");

Comment 7

[Eric Shepherd [:sheppy]]

I've also add the RDF extension; that needs to be hooked in as well.

Comment 8

[Jeremy Orem [:oremj]]

These have been installed.

Comment 9

[Eric Shepherd [:sheppy]]

Did the RDF extension get switched on too?  It's been around 20 minutes and isn't showing up yet on the versions special page.

Comment 10

[Jeremy Orem [:oremj]]

What is the process for installing the rdf extension?  It can't be required like the other two, because it immediately starts spitting out text.

Comment 11

[Eric Shepherd [:sheppy]]

Turns out RDF requires the RAP API extension for PHP.  There's info on that here:

http://sites.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/suhl/bizer/rdfapi/

Once that's installed, this is what the RDF readme says to add to the LocalSettings.php file:

  define("RDFAPI_INCLUDE_DIR", "/full/path/to/rdfapi-php/api/");
  require_once("extensions/Rdf/Rdf.php");

Comment 12

[Eric Shepherd [:sheppy]]

I'm going to file a separate bug for RDF since it also involves installing the PHP extension.