Figlet Extension

Integrate RSS feeds into wiki pages using magpieRSS (a PHP RSS parser class) in a custom Mediawiki extension:

(For example to interwiki syndicate RecentChanges pages.)

mutante 20:57, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Syntax

<rss>URL</rss>

Example

<rss>http://slashdot.org/slashdot.rss</rss>

Result

<rss>http://slashdot.org/slashdot.rss</rss>

(not installed on wikipedia, but here)

Source

<?php
# Figlet Mediawiki extension
# using shell figlet 
# by DrOwl 21.06.2005
#modded from
# by mutante 25.03.2005

$wgExtensionFunctions[] = "wffigltExtension";

function wffigletExtension() {
global $wgParser;
$wgParser->setHook( "rss", "renderFiglet" );
}


function renderFiglet( $input ) {

$input =~ /[Aa-Zz]|[1-0];
# $input = mysql_escape_string($input);
$figlet = passthru('echo $input | /home/drowl/figlet/figlet -d /home/drowl/figlet/fonts');
$output="<pre>";
$output.="$figlet";
$output.="

";

return $output;

}

?>

Improved Version by Duesentrieb

Also have a look at User:Duesentrieb/RSS for a modified version with a few more features -- Duesentrieb 01:29, 2 May 2005 (UTC)

This includes converting different charsets using iconv and an option to hide the description (shortened list). Thanks for your help , Duesentrieb, I didnt feel like messing with the charset conversion especially. mutante 22:31, 5 May 2005 (UTC)