I've recently been working on an extension, and it would be nice for it to show a PostEdit success box when it successfully completes an operation. However, doing this at the moment would mean loading a Javascript file, the PHP setting a JS config var for whether to display the PostEdit box or not, JS checking this variable, JS getting a message for the text to display, etc.

What would really be useful would be a way, just in PHP, for extensions to specify that a PostEdit box should be shown, with the text to display. The code would then ensure that JS to show the box is loaded on the page (which would possibly also save resources over the above method).

I am not entirely sure how this would be best implemented, but possibly something like wfShowPostEdit( $text ), that could be easily called in an extension's code. Something like this would make it many more times easier for extensions to show PostEdit boxes.

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Severity: enhancement