Dynamic Page List

Today I'm looking for plug-in for generating article list for main page (for example, list of new articles or list of new edits). It seems DynamicPageList extension will be helpful in this situation. In fact, DynamicPageList or (also known as DPL) is base for number of other plug-ins (for example, Wgraph, TreeAndMenu, Calendar).

DPL manual is here.

As recommended here, I'll install DynamicPageList itself and Call and Inputbox. There are no cross references in DPL extensions in Semeb_extensions.zip!

Step 1
Invoke DPL from your LocalSettings.php with

require_once("extensions/DynamicPageList/DynamicPageList2.php");


Step 2: skipped

There is a special feature in DPL which needs another extension: If you use page inclusion and want to use images as link symbols for the original source you must install the LinkedImage extension. For details see there.

Step 3: skipped

In some special cases (when DPL queries refer to uncategorized pages) DPL needs a special database view in the MySQL database. You should run the database statement which creates that view if you want to use DPL statements which refer to uncategorized pages. Many installations work well without that and you can postpone this step until you really need it. If DPL cannot execute a DPL statement without that view it will issue a corresponding warning. More...