Extension:CategoryToolbox

MediaWiki extensions manual

CategoryToolbox Release status: experimental
Implementation	Parser function
Author(s)	Valerio Bozzolan
Latest version	1.0.0
Compatibility policy	Master maintains backward compatibility.
MediaWiki	1.27+
License	GNU General Public License 3.0 or later
Download	GitHub: project page git repository URL [help ] commit history Note: No localisation updates are provided by translatewiki.net .
Hooks used ScribuntoExternalLibraries

The CategoryToolbox extension allows to retrieve from Lua some informations about category/page relations.

Features

• Discover if a certain page belongs to a certain category (also recursively!)
• Discover the latest/oldest page added in a certain category

Installation

• Make sure that the Extension:Scribunto is installed
• Download and place the file(s) in a directory called CategoryToolbox in your extensions/ folder.
• Add the following code at the bottom of your LocalSettings.php file:

  wfLoadExtension( 'CategoryToolbox' );
  

•  Done – Navigate to Special:Version on your wiki to verify that the extension is successfully installed.

Manual

Note that the provided functions are expensive. See Manual:$wgExpensiveParserFunctionLimit.

The following documentation uses these terms:

category

It means the category title eventually prefixed. E.g. Category:Category name as well as just Category name.

page

It means the page title eventually prefixed. E.g. File:Example.svg.

namespace

It means the namespace number. E.g. 0.

depth

It means the recursion maximum depth. Accepted values are:

0

no recursion (default)

-1

deep recursion (very expensive)

1..n

choose your recursion limit (less expensive) [NOT YET IMPLEMENTED]

mw.ext.cattools.newestPage

mw.ext.cattools.newestPage( category, [ namespace ] )

Returns the page that is most recently added to the category, eventually only from a certain namespace.

It returns nil or an object with some page informations. An example of result:

{
  ns    = 6,
  title = 'Example.svg',
  date  = '2017-10-28 23:59:59'
}

mw.ext.cattools.oldestPage

mw.ext.cattools.oldestPage( category, [ namespace ] )

Exactly as above, but about the less recently added page to the category.

mw.ext.cattools.hasPage

mw.ext.cattools.hasPage( category, page, [ depth ] )

Returns a boolean if the page belongs to the category.

As default, there is no recursion, so the maximum depth is assumed as 0.

mw.ext.cattools.havePages

mw.ext.cattools.havePages( categories, pages, [ depth ], [ mode ] )

If you don't specify mode or if it's AND: for each page provided in the pages table, it checks if it belongs to every category, provided in the categories table.

If you specify mode as OR: for each page provided in the pages table, it checks if it belongs to at least one category, provided in the categories table.

It returns table of booleans that is made by matching pages' IDs. An example of result:

{
  123456: true
}

Note that the depth parameter is supported only in newer MediaWiki versions (see phab:T179065). For older versions it's just assumed a deep recursion (very expensive).