Last modified: 2011-04-04 21:28:16 UTC
Hi. I know next to nothing about PHP but have successfully installed, edited and customized a wiki database. However, when I tried the "Breadcrumbs" feature from the http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:FAQ page, I get a "non-object" error for every page save the main page. Can someone tell me in clear terms how I can fix this, or perhaps how this fix is incompatible with my version? I am not the administrator of the server and have to put up with PHP 4.4.3 and therefore had to install an older version of mediawiki.
Code posted at [[mw:Help:FAQ]] is not supported, except for modifications to LocalSettings.php. The breadcrumbs code was added by [[mw:User:Barrylb]], who is not a developer, and who knows what version he was using, what else he forgot to add, etc. I suggest you ask him if you have any problems with his code. Meanwhile, I think I'll be removing that from the FAQ. <http://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Help:FAQ&diff=32953&oldid=32949>
(sigh) Some idiot posted an untested, official hack on our FAQ and made it look like it had our official support. This is the reason documentation writing should be made more accountable than the ruddy Wikipedia. MediaWiki contains limited "breadcrumb" support when using subpages; further documentation about this SHOULD be available with a little bit of web searching (though watch out for the false positive of the aforementioned hack) - if not, a note dropped on one of the help pages on MediaWiki.org will elicit a response. I've removed the offending misinformation from the FAQ.
(In reply to comment #2) > (sigh) Some idiot posted an untested, official hack on our FAQ and made it look That's "untested, unofficial", even.
