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This extension has been archived.

This extension has not been maintained for some time, and no longer supports recent releases of MediaWiki.

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-{{Extension
-|name=CategorySubscriptions
-|description=Allows users to subscribe to categories and receive daily email updates listing new and updated pages for each category
-|type1=special
-|type2=database
-|author=[[User:Myatzkan|Michael Yatzkanic]]
-|status=beta
-|version=Beta 2 (May 16, 2008)
-|image=
-|username=
-|license=GPL
-|download=[http://code.google.com/p/mw-categorysubscriptions/source/browse Google Code svn browser]
-|rights=
-|mediawiki=1.11+
-}}
-==Description==
-'''CategorySubscriptions''' allows a user to subscribe to categories and receive daily email updates of the changes that occured within each category during the previous day.
-The goal of this extension is to allow a user to easily watch changes that occur within a category.  Categories can be added directly (one category at a time) or by viewing a wiki page and viewing all the categories that wiki page belongs too.
-== Update ==
-<big>'''The code has undergone a major update.'''</big>  Please visit the new [http://code.google.com/p/mw-categorysubscriptions project home] to get the newest source code.
-This wiki page and the new Google code page will be updated in the near future to reflect the new changes.
-==Requirements==
-===Pear===
-The following Pear packages are required for the php emailing script.  If you do not have Pear installed you will have to install it in additon to these required packages.
-*Mail
-*Net_SMTP (if using smtp to send emails)
-*Net_socket (dependant of net_smtp)
-If you are using a different emailing protocol other than SMTP you will have to configure the mailer script and Pear as needed.
-===SQL Table===
-<big>'''An installer script is now provided to create the table automatically.  The following is left for reference.'''</big>
-A new table must be created in the mediawiki database.
-The table is very simple and has only 3 columns
-*id - unique identifier for each column (auto-increment)
-*user_id - the id of the user making the subscription
-*category - the name of the category to be subscribed too
-The SQL statement to create the table (note: only tested on MySQL database):
-<source lang="mysql">
-CREATE TABLE category_subscriptions (
-   id int(10) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment,
-   user_id int(10) unsigned NOT NULL default '0',
-   category varchar(255) NOT NULL default '',
-   PRIMARY KEY  (id)
-);
-</source>
-If your MediaWiki installation has a database prefix, be sure to prefix it to the table name.  Example, if $wgDBprefix="mw" then your table name will be "mwcategory_subscriptions"
-==Installation==
-<big>'''This section will be updated to reflect the new procedure...'''</big>
-#Install required Pear packages and create new table in database
-#Create directory "CategorySubscriptions" under the extensions folder of your wiki installation
-#Copy all 3 php files (CategorySubscriptions.php, CategorySubscriptions.i18n.php, CategorySubscriptionsMailer.php) into the folder you just created
-#Add the following code to your LocalSettings.php file: <source lang="php">require_once("$IP/extensions/CategorySubscriptions/CategorySubscriptions.php");</source>
-#Configure the mailer script (database host, user name, password, etc...)
-#Using your favorite automation method, set the CategorySubscriptionsMailer.php script to run every morning.
-==Usage==
-New and improved usage instructions will be up shortly, as the interface to the extension changed slightly.
-==Code==
-Code is now available through svn at the Google code page linked in the info box.

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