Cannot use [[File:|link=page]] syntax in a marker

[jrbray1]

Setup

• Maps version: 12.0.0
• MW version: 1.43.3
• PHP version: 8/4
• SMW version (if applicable):

Issue

{{#display_map:
51.0915,1.1877~[[Abbotscliffe Tunnel]]~[[File:Abbotscliffe%20Tunnel%200252.JPG|thumb|100px|link=Abbotscliffe Tunnel]];
| service=leaflet
| zoom=15
| width=600
| height=400
}}

Which hopes to create a link to the article via text and through the image leaves the Map without markers, because it does not handle the equals sign in the link= properly. Removing the link= does display the marker with popup image, but the click through link is to the image file in Commons, not the desired page. Attempts to circumvent this with {{=}} and raw HTML have all failed. And of course you can't even display the image without a link, because that would require link=

[baillyk]

This is because "=" is used by mediawiki parser as a seperator for arguments for parser functions (param=value).
If one uses the equal sign within the locationtext (no matter at which position), mediawiki parser will fail to deliver the text correctly to the Maps extension. So it's not a bug in Maps.
It can be solved for example by editing the File extensions/Maps/src/WikitextParsers/LocationParser.php.

in Maps 12.1.5, change Line 81-83 from:

if ( $metaData !== [] ) {
	$location->setText( array_shift( $metaData ) );
}

to

if ( $metaData !== [] ) {
    $text = preg_replace(
        '/(\[\[(?:File|Image):[^\]]*?)\|link:/i',
        '$1|link=',
        array_shift( $metaData )
    );

    $location->setText( $text ); 
}

This adds a regex replace that replaces "link:" to "link=" in image definitions within the location text. Afterwards you can add links to images using ":" instead of "=". By using the colon sign, the text gets delivered correctly to Maps and within Maps it is replaced by the equal sign to that it get parsed correctly to a linked image.

Example:

[[File:Abbotscliffe%20Tunnel%200252.JPG|thumb|100px|link:Abbotscliffe Tunnel]]

[jrbray1]

Thanks for looking into this. Its making progress, as now the image appears, but the pop-up title and pop-up text now appear in separate boxes, as can be seen here and at https://warlike.info/Sandbox. I am using 12.0.0

{{#display_map:
51.0915,1.1877~[[Dover Castle]]~no image;
| service=leaflet
| zoom=15
| width=600
| height=400
}}

{{#display_map:
51.0915,1.1877~[[Dover Castle]][[File:Abbotscliffe%20Tunnel%200252.JPG|thumb|100px|link:Abbotscliffe Tunnel]];
| service=leaflet
| zoom=15
| width=600
| height=400
}}
{{#display_map:
51.0915,1.1877[[Dover Castle]] no tilde [[File:Abbotscliffe%20Tunnel%200252.JPG|thumb|100px|link:Abbotscliffe Tunnel]];
| service=leaflet
| zoom=15
| width=600
| height=400
}}

[baillyk]

Not sure, but try to remove the "thumb" option from your images

[jrbray1]

That works. I'll implement it provided its not grabbing a full image and shrinking it on the fly, but it doesn't seem to be. Thanks for your help

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