User talk:IagoQnsi/addptlinks

Easier Code, but no location, no index, control

addPortletLink('p-personal', 'http://link', 'label', 'id', 'tooltip');

While the code is easier to read, it's lacking functionality.
Specifically, there's no index control:

Attribute	Required?	Purpose
label	yes	The text to be shown for the link
title	no	A title attribute for the link, if desired. Most browsers display these titles when you hover your mouse over the link.
url	yes	The URL where the link goes. If you would like to link to a page on the Wikipedia, use the format "/wiki/Page_name".
index	no	The index where this link will be placed in the list (i.e. "0" would put the link at the far left, "1" would put it to the right of the username, etc.). If the index is not set, the link will be added to the end of the list.

Does/should id be unique?

What exactly is the id? Seems to work even when it's not unique.

Best Practice

Is best practice to add multiple lines for multiple links?
The following appears to be valid, though poorly written:

addPortletLink('p-personal', 'http://google.com', 'google', '22', 'tooltip');
addPortletLink('p-personal', 'http://yahoo.com', 'yahoo', '11', 'tooltip');
addPortletLink('p-personal', 'http://foo-bar.com', 'foo-bar', '22', 'tooltip');
addPortletLink('p-personal', 'http://foo', 'foo', '-5', 'tooltip link to foo');
addPortletLink('p-personal', 'user:foo/foo', 'user:foo/foo', 'id', 'tooltip link to user:foo/foo');
addPortletLink('p-personal', 'http://bar', 'bar', 'id', 'tooltip link to bar');
addPortletLink('p-personal', 'http://foo-bar', 'foo-bar', 'id', 'tooltip...');

--CmdrDan (talk) 03:37, 25 May 2014 (UTC)

Reply from IagoQnsi

@CmdrDan: Oops, I'm just seeing this four years later. You probably have completely forgotten about this, but I'll answer anyway. The addPortletLink function is part of MediaWiki, so I don't know a whole lot about it. But, it's documented over here: mw:ResourceLoader/Core modules#addPortletLink. The id parameter is the ID for the HTML element that will be created; HTML elements don't have to have IDs, so the field is optional. You can't pass an index like you can with my script, but you can pass nextnode to specify which existing link you want your new link to appear before. As for best practice with the formatting, it's really whatever you want -- just do whatever you think is easiest to read with the spacing/line breaks. –IagoQnsi (talk) 18:35, 12 April 2018 (UTC)