Cora Skin implementation/Generalization

This page is dedicated to Cora skin implementation phase II. In this phase of development, we extended classic Vector skin with certain specific functionality and new look and feel. In the following, the implementation is described in detail.

Cora - new MediaWiki Skin derived from Vector Skin

Cora skin has been created as a derivation of classic Vector Skin. Certain functionality and options has been enabled by default in Cora skin:

• search look and feel has been setup at simple search by hard coding. This functionality is equivalent on Vector skin with:

   Preference/search/ Enable simplified search bar (Vector skin only).

In Vector Skin, this option is controlled by a global variable, used by search function.

• edit icons have been replaced by others. All these icons and other images are in distributions. Vector skin code has been modified correspondingly.
• semantic browse has been modified as look and feel. Part of this functionality due of Vector skin code modification.
• powered by semantic Cora project icon has been added by hard coding also.

Implementation of Cora skin

Cora skin has been implemented as follows:

• new images (icons) have been added to already existing images in images folder.
• we added new code to Cora.php source file.
• we added new css file to CSS look and feel. (cora.css in distribution).

The description of css, js code is similar with Cora_Skin_implementation page.

Installation of Cora skin

Cora skin distribution has been installed on server.