Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/preferences

For example, could be placed at MediaWiki:Gadget-jsprefs.js

// array definitions

if(!window.jsprefsLoaded) {

var jsprefsLoaded = true; //load once

var jsPrefs = []; //associative array

var jsPrefsSettable = []; //indexed array of associative elements

addOnloadHook(function() { addPortletLink('p-tb','javascript:jsPrefsPanel()','Script preferences','t-jsprefs','You are using scripts with settable preferences.'); });

}

// prefs panel (crude UI, needs rewriting and cross-browser checking)

function jsPrefsPanel() {

if(jsPrefsSettable.length==0) return;

var bod = document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0];

var prefsdiv = document.createElement('div');

prefsdiv.setAttribute('style','font-size:120%;position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:50%;height:90%;border:2px solid black;z-index:10;background-color:#ffffff;padding:.5em;margin:2em;display:block;overflow:auto;');

prefsdiv.setAttribute('id','jsPrefsWindow');

var phead = document.createElement('h2');

phead.setAttribute('style','border-bottom:1px solid black;text-align:center;margin:0;');

var kill = document.createElement('a');

kill.setAttribute('style','float:right;font-size:66%')

kill.setAttribute('href','javascript:closePrefs();')

kill.appendChild(document.createTextNode('Close'));

phead.appendChild(kill);

phead.appendChild(document.createTextNode('Javascript/Gadget User Preferences'));

var caveat = document.createElement('div');

caveat.setAttribute('style','border:1px solid black;font-style:italic;text-align:center;margin:8px;');

caveat.appendChild(document.createTextNode('Note: These are cookie-settable user prefernces for various user scripts loaded via the MediaWiki gadgets extension. You can set these more permanently by editing your skin.js file. See [insert link] for more details. \n--example caveat--'))

prefsdiv.appendChild(phead);

prefsdiv.appendChild(caveat);

bod.appendChild(prefsdiv);

for (var i = 0; i < jsPrefsSettable.length; i++) {

var pdiv = document.createElement('div');

pdiv.appendChild(document.createTextNode(jsPrefsSettable[i].name));

pdiv.setAttribute('style','border:1px solid black;margin:5px;background-color:#ddffdd;');

var inp = document.createElement('input');

inp.setAttribute('id','pref-' + jsPrefsSettable[i].name);

inp.setAttribute('name','pref-' + jsPrefsSettable[i].name);

if(getjsPref(jsPrefsSettable[i].name)) {

inp.setAttribute('style','color:black;margin:1px 10px;');

} else {

inp.setAttribute('style','color:#888888;margin:1px 10px;');

}

var btn = document.createElement('input');

btn.setAttribute('type','button');

btn.setAttribute('value','Save');

btn.setAttribute('style','margin-right:.5em;');

switch (jsPrefsSettable[i].type) {

case 'boolean':

inp.setAttribute('type','checkbox');

if(getjsPref(jsPrefsSettable[i].name)) inp.checked = 'true'

btn.setAttribute('onclick','setjsPref("' + jsPrefsSettable[i].name + '",document.getElementById("' + 'pref-' + jsPrefsSettable[i].name + '").checked)');

break;

default: //string/number

inp.setAttribute('type','text');

if(getjsPref(jsPrefsSettable[i].name)) {

inp.setAttribute('value',getjsPref(jsPrefsSettable[i].name));

} else {

inp.setAttribute('value',jsPrefsSettable[i].defval);

}

btn.setAttribute('onclick','setjsPref("' + jsPrefsSettable[i].name + '",document.getElementById("' + 'pref-' + jsPrefsSettable[i].name + '").value)');

break;

}

var def = document.createElement('input');

def.setAttribute('type','button');

def.setAttribute('value','Default');

def.setAttribute('style','margin-right:.5em;');

def.setAttribute('onclick','setjsPref("' + jsPrefsSettable[i].name + '","' + jsPrefsSettable[i].defval + '")');

pdiv.appendChild(inp);

pdiv.appendChild(btn);

pdiv.appendChild(def);

pdiv.appendChild(document.createTextNode(jsPrefsSettable[i].desc));

prefsdiv.appendChild(pdiv);

}

}

// kill the prefs window

function closePrefs() {

var bod = document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0];

bod.removeChild(document.getElementById('jsPrefsWindow'));

}

// pref get/set/del functions

function getjsPref(nam) {

// return global variable if exists, else return cookie (unless 'false'), else fail

if(window.jsPrefs[nam]) {

return jsPrefs[nam];

} else if(getCookie(nam)) {

if(getCookie(nam) != 'false') {

return getCookie(nam);

} else {

return false;

}

} else {

return false;

}

}

function setjsPref(nam,val) {

setCookie(nam,val);

var checkval = (val==false) ? 'false' : val

if(val==true) checkval = 'true'

if(getCookie(nam)==checkval) {

alert('The preference\n => ' + nam + '\n has been set to\n=> ' + val);

} else {

alert('Cookies seem to be disabled in your browser.\nYou can still set this via your user/skin.js)');

}

}

// Cookie helpers, modified from en.wiktionary

function setCookie(cookieName, cookieValue) {

var today = new Date();

var expire = new Date();

var nDays = 365;

expire.setTime(today.getTime() + (3600000 * 24 * nDays));

document.cookie = cookieName + '=' + escape(cookieValue)

+ ';path=/'

+ ';expires='+expire.toGMTString();

}

function getCookie(cookieName) {

var start = document.cookie.indexOf(cookieName + '=');

if (start == -1) return '';

var len = start + cookieName.length + 1;

if ((!start) &&

(cookieName != document.cookie.substring(0, cookieName.length)))

{

return '';

}

var end = document.cookie.indexOf(';', len);

if(end == -1) end = document.cookie.length;

return unescape(document.cookie.substring(len, end));

}

document.write('');

addOnloadHook(function() {

if (window.jsPrefsSettable) {

jsPrefsSettable[jsPrefsSettable.length] = {

'name': 'test2-gogglebutton',

'desc': 'add a google link?',

'type': 'boolean',

'defval': true};

jsPrefsSettable[jsPrefsSettable.length] = {

'name': 'test2-gogglelinktitle',

'desc': 'the text of the google search link',

'type': 'string',

'defval': 'Gewgihl'};

}

if(getjsPref('test2-gogglebutton')) {

var googtitle = (!getjsPref('test2-gogglelinktitle')) ? 'Gewgihl' : getjsPref('test2-gogglelinktitle')

addPortletLink('p-cactions','http://www.google.com/search?q=' + encodeURIComponent(mw.config.get('wgTitle')),googtitle,'ca-jsprefs','Google this page');

}

});