I want to wrap a mediawiki site inside another site - using the header.inc and footer.inc files that the rest of the website's html files use. I'm not familiar with php, is there a 'masterpage' file somewhere I can put them in?
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A:
Your best bet would be to create a custom skin, or edit one of the default skins, such as monobook. They control most of the basic presentation code. Here is one short tutorial on creating a custom skin. The files usually live in the /skins/ folder; if you skim through one, you can find where the HTML begins and ends.
You can include another file using the PHP include function, like so:
<html>
...
<body>
<?php
include 'header.inc';
?>
...
Matt Hampel
2009-09-16 14:40:03
Perfect. Many thanks.
simon831
2009-09-16 15:17:54
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A:
For future reference in the LocalSettings.php you can also prevent users from using any other skin.
$wgDefaultSkin = 'myskin';
$wgAllowUserSkin = false;
$wgSkipSkins = array( "chick", "cologneblue", "monobook", "modern", "myskin", "nostalgia", "simple", "standard" );
simon831
2009-09-16 15:19:01
These two settings are necessary but not enough to prevent users from using other skins. You also have to set this configuration settings as well:$wgAllowUserSkin = false; (true by default).
Laurent Alquier
2009-09-17 18:05:23