Hi Dick,

Am 11.12.20 um 20:29 schrieb Dick Groskamp:
>
> On 2020/12/11 17:23:20, Matthias Seidel <matthias.sei...@hamburg.de> wrote: 
>> Hi Dick,
>>
>> Am 11.12.20 um 17:14 schrieb Dick Groskamp:
>>
>> The extension is not broken, it is outdated. It cannot be updated
>> because that would need a newer version of Wiki.
>> However, our AOO skin for the Wiki must be adapted to the newer Wiki
>> version...
>>
>> At least that is what I understood from Andrea's posts regarding the
>> Wiki server in 2019 [1]
>>
> Well, if it is outdated and it doesn't do its job, I think it is broken.
> What I meant to say is that it doesn't work the way it was designed anymore.
>> See above, the extension is not ours. It is from mediaWiki.org (?)
>>
> Well, I think it is ours. It was especially created by former developers for 
> this purpose and it is probably nowhere else available/usable and just works 
> on our wiki.

Who would that developer be?! Do you know a name?

Isn't it more likely that it is a mediawiki extension like:

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SyntaxHighlight

>
> I haven't read Andrea's post yet, I focused more on getting this defective 
> extension IDLTags repaired.

Well, that would be a workaround for the moment, but we should "simply"
fix the source of the problem...

Regards,

   Matthias

>
> Problem is the deprecation of the ereg_replace function from PHP 7.0.*
> That was the function that was used in this IDLTags extension and made it 
> work as it did. This is the reason that several pages in the DevGuide show 
> blank.
>
> If we can replace the used ereg_replace function by a still usable 
> preg_replace function it should
> work again and all should be well :-)
>
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