Extension talk:CorrectMainPageTitle

you can custom the title

replace wfMsg('pagetitle-view-mainpage') with a string ( for example: 'My html title for Main Page' ) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Superxain (talk • contribs) 13:41, 14 September 2010 (UTC). Please sign your posts with ~~~~!

It's better if you edit the MediaWiki:Pagetitle-view-mainpage system message, because it is intended to be the main page title, but for some reason it doesn't work out-of-the-box without my extension (I've installed MediaWiki in Italian). --VittGam 15:23, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

Error in object to string conversion and quick fix

VittGam, thank you for the simple yet important extension. This had been an issue at our wiki too, and your extension fixed it. However, your code didn't work for me out-of-the-box. In my enviroment (PHP 5.1.6, MW 1.16.0), the following error was reported and the title did not change:

Notice: Object of class Title could not be converted to int in (...)extensions/CorrectMainPageTitle.php on line 28

The problem was in the line:

if (in_array(strtolower($request->getText('action')),array('','view','print','submit','purge')) && $title==wfMsg('mainpage')) {

I've bolded the relevant part. $title is an object, and wfMsg('mainpage') is a string. [1] So I changed that part to make it work; which is,

$title->getText() == wfMsg('mainpage')

Moreover, people say that you should use "===" or strcmp() when comparing strings [2], so I ended up with

$title->getText() === wfMsg('mainpage')

(Note: This is my first time I've meddled with PHP code, so I'm not sure if I'm doing it right.)

I hope this helps anyone who's having a similar issue. --朝彦 (Asahiko) 07:04, 9 October 2010 (UTC)

You are right; it works in both ways on my wiki, but your method is the correct one. Thank you for the fix. --VittGam 15:03, 14 October 2010 (UTC)

Fix for extension not functioning when main page is part of a name space

Hi there! Not sure if this is something that others have run into before, and maybe it's bleeding obvious, but it wasn't to me. :)

Recently i've changed my main page to be part of a custom name space called 'Portal:' (inspired by Memory Alpha). This worked as expected for the most part, but it broke the CorrectMainPageTitle extension.

After some experimentation, i determined this line was at fault:

if (... && $title->getText()==wfMsg('mainpage')) {

The problem was that, although wfMsg('mainpage') was returning the expected value ('Portal:Main'), this was not matching $title->getText(). The reason for this is that the output of $title->getText() does not include the name space (at least for custom ones, apparently) — it only includes the title itself. So instead of getting 'Portal:Main', i was just getting 'Main', which obviously was not working here.

The fix in my particular case was simply to change this to the (name-space-less) title i expected:

if (... && $title->getText() === 'Main') {

However, there is probably a more elegant solution that i'm unaware of (i just don't know that much about MediaWiki's internals). ♥ kine, 08:06, 5 April 2011 (UTC)

Hi kine,

Thanks for reporting this bug. According to the MediaWiki code, I think this is the right version, but I don't use MediaWiki anymore, so I can't tell:

if (... && $title->isMainPage()) {

If you (or someone else) want to try this, feel free to test the fix and report here if it worked for you.

Bye~ --VittGam 08:34, 5 April 2011 (UTC)

Encoding problems

When I apply some utf-8 characters (Arabic), I don't get the title correctly set, but instead some unknown characters. When I open the source page, I realize that charset is set afterwards the title tag, not before:

<title>Main Page</title
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

How can this be fixed?--Almuhammedi 14:48, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

Ok, I think it is my mistake. I should have just modified the Mediawiki:MainPage content.--Almuhammedi 12:50, 12 December 2011 (UTC)