User:Poke/GW2ChatLinks

GW2ChatLinks is a MediaWiki extensions that brings native support for Guild Wars 2 chat links.

Search functionality

When searching, and the search term contains one or more chat links, then all contained chat links are decoded and produce a specialized output before other search results. Due to technical limitations, it is not possible to prevent the standard search from being executed.

The output from the decoded chat links is generated by specialized templates that allow modifying the output dynamically without changing the extension’s source files.

Special page

As an alternative or extension to the search functionality, the creation of a special page is being discussed which performs the decoding process separately. The search results could then either duplicate/include the special page’s behaviour, or redirect to the special page, preventing further standard search results from being displayed.

Parser functions

The extension adds a few specialized parser functions to generate chat links. All generated chat links are embedded within a span tag: <span class="gw2chatlink">…</span>.

Generic chat links: #chatlink

The #chatlink parser function is a generic parser function to generate a chat link from an id.

Parameter 1

Chat link type. Supports the following values:

• coin – Coin link
• item – Item link
• text – Chat text
• map – Map link (Waypoint, Point of Interest)
• skill – Skill link
• trait – Trait link
• recipe – Recipe link

In addition it is also possible to specify a number representing the chat link type, as explained on chat link format.

Parameter 2

Respective identifier, or in case of coin links the amount of coins in copper.

Examples

Code	Desired result	Live result	Meaning
{{#chatlink:coin|0}}	[&AQAAAAA=]	0}}	0
{{#chatlink:coin|1}}	[&AQEAAAA=]	1}}	1
{{#chatlink:coin|10203}}	[&AdsnAAA=]	10203}}	1  2  3
{{#chatlink:item|23029}}	[&AgH1WQAA]	23029}}	Copper Harvesting Sickle
{{#chatlink:item|23040}}	[&AgEAWgAA]	23040}}	Basic Salvage Kit
{{#chatlink:map|72}}	[&BEgAAAA=]	72}}	Desider Atum Waypoint
{{#chatlink:skill|5491}}	[&BnMVAAA=]	5491}}	Fireball

Item chat links: #chatlink-item

Unlike the generic parser function, the #chatlink-item parser function allows specifying upgrades, skin transmutations and other item properties.