Purpose

The extension allows in a MediWiki the embedding of foreign web pages via an iframe.

Usage

<iframe k="rstudio" p="page" w="800" h="600" />

The parameters w, h and allowfullscreen are optional. The final URL is http://shiny.rstudio.com/page, composed of the value in $wgIframeUrl for the key rstudio and p.

Installation

• Go to the extensions directory of your MediaWiki installation.
• Clone the extension from github by git clone https://github.com/sigbertklinke/Iframe
• Edit your LocalSettings.php and add at the end wfLoadExtension( 'Iframe' );
• The global variable $wgIframe controls which defaults are used (web address, sizes etc.)

Note

The extension is potentially a security reason, since an external web page may contain malicious code.

The software is usable under the GNU General Public License, Version 3.0, for details see LICENSE.

History

• 2023-23-03 Modified according sovello and opoplawski, v 0.11
• 2022-10-09 Modified JS resources code, v 0.10
• 2021-06-27 Adapted to MediaWiki 1.36.1, v 0.09