Download¶

Current Version FlowchartWiki 1.2.5¶

(If you are running an older version, please see the upgrade info in the release-notes below.)

There are two versions of the files available:

a .zip file for Windows installations
a .tar.gz file for Linux/Unix installations

The contents of both files are the same, just the packaging is different.

FlowchartWiki
- Download from BitBucket Releases as .zip or .gz: BitBucket
PDFbook (our version of the extension is currently broken.)
Git Repository

git clone https://bitbucket.org/tkock/flowchartwiki.git
git clone https://bitbucket.org/tkock/pdfbook.git

Current versions are tagged, you can do git checkout flowchartwiki-1.2.5

Installation prerequisites¶

FlowchartWiki and MediaWiki are based on the “LAMP” Stack: Linux/Unix/Windows, Apache, mySQL/Postgres, PHP. This plattform should be available on your system.
FlowchartWiki is an Extension for MediaWiki. Please install MediaWiki first, then add the FlowchartWiki Extension. (See also Installation)
The standard installation of FlowchartWiki will NOT work together with Semantic MediaWiki (SMW) installed in the same wiki. (See Parallel usage with Semantic MediaWiki for a workaround.)

Unpacking and installing¶

Please see Installation

Release and upgrade Notes - Current Release FlowchartWiki¶

FlowchartWiki 1.2.5¶

Fixes for deprecations in MW 1.27 and 1.29.1.

FlowchartWiki 1.2.4¶

fix sloppy coding that PHP 7.x rejects or complains about now (Thanks to Adam C. from the US.)

FlowchartWiki 1.2.3¶

fixed MediaWiki 1.27 LTS compatibility issues: ‘wfMsg(…)’ to ‘wfMessage(…)->text()’

FlowchartWiki 1.2.2¶

fixed MediaWiki 1.24 compatibility issues.

Upgrade from 1.2.1:

Replace the extension directory with the new version and (optionally) delete the images in ./images/flowchartwiki

FlowchartWiki 1.2.1¶

Changes for deprecated functions in MediaWiki 1.21.x
- ExtensionMessages was removed.
- counter.php was removed -> replaced by direct copy of old function.
dot not creating image files with empty label=, needs to be label=’ ‘ instead.
added call to PHP clearstatcache()

Upgrade from 1.2.0:

Replace the extension directory with the new version and (optionally) delete the images in ./images/flowchartwiki

FlowchartWiki 1.2.0¶

Bugfix by Hiroyuki S.: long pagenames in fchw_LoadPages() in lib.php
catching some php-Notice “undefined index” errors in lib.php with isset()

Upgrade from 1.1.x or 1.2.0-beta-x:

Replace the extension directory with the new version and delete the images in ./images/flowchartwiki
optional: Use the new “Category” as Graph Header feature (see Customizing).

FlowchartWiki 1.2.0-beta2¶

Bugfix by Gerrit I. - double entries in Database when tags are twice in a wikipage
PHP 5.3 compatibility - tested together with Peter v.L.
Changed field length in schema_mysql.sql for from_title and relation from 255 to 120 due to problems with UTF8 databases and indices being longer than 1024.
added $wgExtensionCredits

FlowchartWiki 1.2.0-beta1¶

major rebuild of .dot file creation, reduced Database-accesses and moved data-structure into internal object hierarchy (see fchwobjects.php for the objects)
This was a prerequsite for adding other features to the graph:
Include a Link to the Category-Page on top of the graph, if Customizing has a Page-Type “Category”.
Position all Pages that have no Level::xxxx assigned at the bottom of the graph, sorted in alphabetical order.
These pages CAN have a Type::xxxx assigned to use a shape and Color from the customizing. Links to these pages may work, but will probably screw up the graph :-)
add Customizing-Function fchw[‘zLevels’] for the number or items per row for the “Unassigned” Pages.
This can be set in LocalSettings.php. If not set, it defaults to 4 and is set in flowchartwiki.php.
Calculate the Height of the graph based on the approximate number of rows. (This may not work properly for CategoryBrowser2 which displays two images.)

FlowchartWiki 1.1.1¶

fixed bug with ‘ (Apostroph) and ” ” (Blank) in Category Names. (Many thanks to Martin from Tübingen, Germany to report this.)

Upgrading from 1.1.0 to 1.1.1

Replace the existing /extensions/flowchartwiki installation with the new files. (You may want to backup your existing files first.)
delete the contents of the ./images/flowchartwiki directory and run php ./extensions/flowchartwiki/maintenance/fchw_RefreshPages.php

Upgrading from previous versions to FlowchartWiki 1.1.1:

replace the existing /extensions/flowchartwiki installation with the new files. (You may want to backup your existing files first.)
change the name of the ./images/fchw directory to ./images/flowchartwiki. Please ensure you keep the proper read/write/create/delete authorizations.
test your installation with the Special Pages:Check_Fchw Page.
change the customizing pages for the process models to the new Version 1.1 format shown in Customizing
delete the contents of the ./images/flowchartwiki directory and run php ./extensions/flowchartwiki/maintenance/fchw_RefreshPages.php

FlowchartWiki 1.1.0¶

updated Special Pages:Check_Fchw
changed calls to GraphViz to platform-dependant calls for Unix/Linux, Windows-Apache and Windows-IIS platforms
fixed calls to GraphViz when there are ” “(<space>) characters in the path to the ./images/flowchartwiki directory.
added $wgDbPrefix to hash for filenames in ./images/flowchartwiki to avoid clashes in multi-instance installations
added “concentrate=true” to .dot files to combine arrows to/from boxes into one arrow.
experimental support of Windows-IIS platform.

FlowchartWiki 1.1.0-RC6¶

updated cacheing of images, added “?Timestamp=<timestamp>” to image-tag of graph images in order to remove the requirement to press “shift-reload” in the browser to see the updated image.
Database table access now uses Mediawiki DB-Prefix. (Thanks to J.R.M.)
Updated special page CheckFchw to show a graph created by graphviz for testing graphviz.

FlowchartWiki 1.1.0-RC5¶

Fixed call to GraphViz.exe on Windows installations (fixed problems on W2K and W2K3 servers), Unix installs are not affected
Added optional PageName::DifferentNameForPage Tag to override the labeling of the box in the Graph (Defaults to Name of WikiPage)
BugFix: Quote in PageName
BugFix: “_” are replaced with ” ” in PageName

FlowchartWiki 1.1.0-RC1¶

Added special page Special:CheckFchw to check correct installation Check FlowChartWiki extension
Fixed bug: Redirected pages causes timeout in some cases
New customization format allows to set color, label, shape on arrows in graph

Release and upgrade Notes - Current Release PdfBook¶

PdfBook is currently broken. It will not work with current MediaWiki releases due to API-changes in MediaWiki.

PdfBook 1.1.1¶

fixed bug with ‘ (Apostroph) and ” ” (Blank) in Category names.

Upgrading from previous versions to pdfbook-1.1.1:

Replace the existing files with the files of the new version. (You may want to backup your existing installation first.)

PdfBook 1.1.0¶

updated Special Pages:Check_Fchw
changed calls to htmldoc to platform-dependant calls for Unix/Linux, Windows-Apache and Windows-IIS platforms
changed unique filename to pdf-book-<uniqueID>
deletes temporary files after delivery to user, so ./images/pdfbook directory should be mostly empty.
fixed calls to htmldoc when there are ” “(<space>) characters in the path to the ./images/flowchartwiki directory.

PdfBook 1.1.0-RC3¶

minor update to special page Special:CheckPdfBook

PdfBook 1.1.0-RC1¶

Added special page Special:CheckPdfBook to check correct installation
PdfBook now should also work when the FlowchartWiki extension is not installed or used in a category.

Release 1.0.x¶

FlowchartWiki 1.0.1¶

Fixed bug: Broken graph if name of pages contains ” ” space

FlowchartWiki 1.0.0-RC3¶

Added simple cache for graphs
Replacement for Hash function (if not exists - on some Solaris hosts)

PdfBook 1.0.0-RC3¶

Sorted book by Level
Added support for codepage ISO-8859-2

FlowchartWiki 1.0.0-RC2¶

Fixed for Windows hosts (flowchartwiki and pdfbook too)
Fixed duplicate entries in dependencies

FlowchartWiki 1.0.0-RC1¶

First Release of FlowchartWiki.