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Content of versions 2 and 3 is identical.

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LinkIcons are an optional feature of PhpWiki. When activated, icons will be displayed in front of URLs to indicate the type of link.

	http link
	generic internet link
	Interwiki link
	https link
	mailto link
	ftp link

Note: Some of the default icons use the alpha channel feature of the PNG image format for smooth rendering on any page color or textured background. Older browsers may not display all the images properly.

Examples

The following examples will display with the above link icons only if the administrator has enabled this feature.

InterWiki links

• InterWiki link PhpWiki:InterWiki
• A named InterWiki read WhyWikiWorks at c2.

URLs

• Email address PhpWiki-talk mailing list
• Normal http link PhpWiki's Home Page
• Secure http link PhpWiki's Home Page
• File transfer ftp://ftp.sourceforge.net/

A generic icon is shown for other less common link types.

• news://nntp.news.com
• gopher://gopher.caltech.cmu.edu

LinkIcons will only display when the URL protocol is one which PhpWiki is allowed to link to. The following examples won't show any icons and PhpWiki won't automatically provide double-clickable links either, unless the administrator adds them:

• bogus://oedipus.nostradamus.com
• bolo://lgm.cheshire.org