docs/globals.txt File Reference

Functions
$article	view ()

Variables
	$oldArticle = $wgArticle
versus	$oldTitle = $wgTitle
	$wgArticle = new Article
globals will be eliminated from MediaWiki replaced by an application object which would be passed to constructors Whether that would be an convenient solution remains to be but certainly PHP makes such object oriented programming models easier than they were in previous versions For the time being MediaWiki programmers will have to work in an environment with some global context At the time of globals were initialised on startup by MediaWiki of these were configuration which are documented in DefaultSettings php There is no comprehensive documentation for the remaining however some of the most important ones are listed below They are typically initialised either in index php or in Setup php $wgTitle Title object created from the request URL $wgOut OutputPage object for HTTP response $wgUser User object for the user associated with the current request $wgLang Language object selected by user preferences $wgContLang Language object associated with the wiki being viewed $wgParser Parser object Parser extensions register their hooks here $wgRequest WebRequest to get request data	$wgMemc
	$wgTitle = Title::newFromText( $t )
globals will be eliminated from MediaWiki replaced by an application object which would be passed to constructors Whether that would be an	efficient
globals will be eliminated from MediaWiki	entirely
globals will be eliminated from MediaWiki replaced by an application object which would be passed to constructors Whether that would be an convenient solution remains to be but certainly PHP makes such object oriented programming models easier than they were in previous versions For the time being MediaWiki programmers will have to work in an environment with some global context At the time of globals were initialised on startup by MediaWiki of these were configuration which are documented in DefaultSettings php There is no comprehensive documentation for the remaining	globals
globals will be eliminated from MediaWiki replaced by an application object which would be passed to constructors Whether that would be an convenient solution remains to be but certainly PHP makes such object oriented programming models easier than they were in previous versions For the time being MediaWiki programmers will have to work in an environment with some global context At the time of globals were initialised on startup by MediaWiki of these were configuration which are documented in DefaultSettings php There is no comprehensive documentation for the remaining however some of the most important ones are listed below They are typically initialised either in index php or in Setup php $wgTitle Title object created from the request URL $wgOut OutputPage object for HTTP response $wgUser User object for the user associated with the current request $wgLang Language object selected by user preferences $wgContLang Language object associated with the wiki being viewed $wgParser Parser object Parser extensions register their hooks here $wgRequest WebRequest	object
globals txt Globals are evil The original MediaWiki code relied on globals for processing context far too often MediaWiki development since then has been a story of slowly moving context out of global variables and into objects Storing processing context in object member variables allows those objects to be reused in a much more flexible way Consider the elegance	of
	database rows
globals will be eliminated from MediaWiki replaced by an application object which would be passed to constructors Whether that would be an convenient solution remains to be	seen
globals will be eliminated from MediaWiki replaced by an application object which would be passed to constructors Whether that would be an convenient solution remains to be but certainly PHP makes such object oriented programming models easier than they were in previous versions For the time being MediaWiki programmers will have to work in an environment with some global context At the time of globals were initialised on startup by MediaWiki of these were configuration	settings
globals will be eliminated from MediaWiki replaced by an application object which would be passed to constructors Whether that would be an convenient solution remains to be but certainly PHP makes such object oriented programming models easier than they were in previous versions For the time being	though
globals will be eliminated from MediaWiki replaced by an application object which would be passed to constructors Whether that would be an convenient solution remains to be but certainly PHP makes such object oriented programming models easier than they were in previous versions For the time being MediaWiki programmers will have to work in an environment with some global context At the time of	writing

Function Documentation

view()

$wgArticle view

(

)

References $article.

Variable Documentation

$oldArticle

$oldArticle = $wgArticle

Definition at line 17 of file globals.txt.

$oldTitle

versus $oldTitle = $wgTitle

Definition at line 16 of file globals.txt.

Referenced by ApiEditPage::execute(), SpecialNewpages::formatRow(), ApiMove::moveSubpages(), and MovePageTest::testTitleMoveCompleteIntegrationTest().

$wgArticle

$wgArticle = new Article

Definition at line 21 of file globals.txt.

$wgMemc

globals will be eliminated from MediaWiki replaced by an application object which would be passed to constructors Whether that would be an convenient solution remains to be but certainly PHP makes such object oriented programming models easier than they were in previous versions For the time being MediaWiki programmers will have to work in an environment with some global context At the time of globals were initialised on startup by MediaWiki of these were configuration which are documented in DefaultSettings php There is no comprehensive documentation for the remaining however some of the most important ones are listed below They are typically initialised either in index php or in Setup php $wgTitle Title object created from the request URL $wgOut OutputPage object for HTTP response $wgUser User object for the user associated with the current request $wgLang Language object selected by user preferences $wgContLang Language object associated with the wiki being viewed $wgParser Parser object Parser extensions register their hooks here $wgRequest WebRequest to get request data $wgMemc

Definition at line 64 of file globals.txt.

Referenced by Installer::__construct(), ClearInterwikiCache::execute(), ForkController::initChild(), ForkController::prepareEnvironment(), and UploadFromUrlTestSuite::setUp().

$wgTitle

$wgTitle = Title::newFromText( $t )

Definition at line 20 of file globals.txt.

efficient

globals will be eliminated from MediaWiki replaced by an application object which would be passed to constructors Whether that would be an efficient

Definition at line 31 of file globals.txt.

entirely

globals will be eliminated from MediaWiki entirely

Definition at line 29 of file globals.txt.

Referenced by CleanupInvalidDbKeys::__construct().

globals

globals will be eliminated from MediaWiki replaced by an application object which would be passed to constructors Whether that would be an convenient solution remains to be but certainly PHP makes such object oriented programming models easier than they were in previous versions For the time being MediaWiki programmers will have to work in an environment with some global context At the time of globals were initialised on startup by MediaWiki of these were configuration which are documented in DefaultSettings php There is no comprehensive documentation for the remaining globals

Definition at line 39 of file globals.txt.

Referenced by MockExtensionProcessor::__construct(), ExtensionProcessor::addConfigGlobal(), ExtensionProcessor::extractCredits(), ExtensionProcessor::extractExtensionMessagesFiles(), ExtensionProcessor::extractHooks(), ExtensionProcessor::extractInfo(), ExtensionProcessor::extractMessagesDirs(), ExtensionProcessor::extractNamespaces(), ExtensionProcessor::extractPathBasedGlobal(), ExtensionProcessor::extractResourceLoaderModules(), and ExtensionProcessor::getExtractedInfo().

object

globals will be eliminated from MediaWiki replaced by an application object which would be passed to constructors Whether that would be an convenient solution remains to be but certainly PHP makes such object oriented programming models easier than they were in previous versions For the time being MediaWiki programmers will have to work in an environment with some global context At the time of globals were initialised on startup by MediaWiki of these were configuration which are documented in DefaultSettings php There is no comprehensive documentation for the remaining however some of the most important ones are listed below They are typically initialised either in index php or in Setup php $wgTitle Title object created from the request URL $wgOut OutputPage object for HTTP response $wgUser User object for the user associated with the current request $wgLang Language object selected by user preferences $wgContLang Language object associated with the wiki being viewed $wgParser Parser object Parser extensions register their hooks here $wgRequest WebRequest object

Definition at line 62 of file globals.txt.

Referenced by ApiResult::applyTransformations(), ApiStashEdit::buildStashValue(), PathRouter::doAdd(), BatchRowUpdateTest::genSelectResult(), MediaWiki\Tests\Maintenance\CategoriesRdfTest::getCategoryIterator(), MediaWiki\Tests\Maintenance\CategoriesRdfTest::getCategoryLinksIterator(), CategoryChangesRdfTest::getCategoryLinksIterator(), CommentStore::getCommentInternal(), ResourceLoaderStartUpModule::getConfigSettings(), LoginSignupSpecialPage::getFakeTemplate(), groups(), ImagePage::imageLinks(), MediaWikiServices(), DatabaseLogEntry::newFromRow(), BotPassword::newUnsaved(), DatabaseTestHelper::open(), PopulateContentTables::populateTable(), CategoryChangesRdfTest::provideCategoryData(), MediaWiki\Tests\Revision\RevisionArchiveRecordTest::provideConstructor(), MediaWiki\Tests\Revision\RevisionStoreRecordTest::provideConstructor(), MediaWiki\Tests\Revision\RevisionArchiveRecordTest::provideConstructorFailure(), MediaWiki\Tests\Revision\RevisionStoreRecordTest::provideConstructorFailure(), JsonContentTest::provideDataAndParserText(), ApiFormatNoneTest::provideGeneralEncoding(), ApiFormatXmlTest::provideGeneralEncoding(), OutputPageTest::provideGetCategories(), RevisionMcrWriteBothDbTest::provideGetTextId(), RevisionNoContentModelDbTest::provideGetTextId(), RevisionPreMcrDbTest::provideGetTextId(), MediaWiki\Tests\Revision\SlotRecordTest::provideInvalidConstruction(), ResourcesTest::provideMediaStylesheets(), MediaWiki\Session\SessionTest::provideSecretsRoundTripping(), WANObjectCacheTest::provideSetAndGet(), RevisionTest::provideTestGetRevisionText_returnsDecompressedTextFieldWhenNotExternal(), ApiResultTest::provideTransformations(), JsonContentTest::provideValidConstruction(), MediaWiki\Tests\Maintenance\DeleteAutoPatrolLogsTest::runProvider(), JobQueueRedis::serialize(), MediaWiki\Auth\AbstractPasswordPrimaryAuthenticationProvider::setPasswordResetFlag(), ApiResult::stripMetadata(), ApiResult::stripMetadataNonRecursive(), FormOptionsInitializationTest::testAddIntegers(), ApiResultTest::testAddMetadataToResultVars(), FormOptionsInitializationTest::testAddStringOption(), RevisionTest::testConstructFromRow(), ChangeTagsTest::testDeleteTagsMigrationOld(), ChangeTagsTest::testDeleteTagsMigrationWriteBoth(), PageArchivePreMcrTest::testGetTextFromRow(), MediaWiki\Tests\Revision\McrWriteBothRevisionStoreDbTest::testInsertRevisionFromArchiveRow_unmigratedArchiveRow(), ChangeTagsTest::testListExplicitlyDefinedTagsNew(), ChangeTagsTest::testListExplicitlyDefinedTagsWriteBoth(), RevisionTest::testLoadFromTitle(), DatabaseLogEntryTest::testNewFromId(), MediaWiki\Tests\Revision\RevisionStoreDbTestBase::testNewRevisionFromArchiveRow_no_user(), MediaWiki\Tests\Revision\RevisionStoreDbTestBase::testNewRevisionFromRow_no_user(), MediaWiki\Tests\Maintenance\PopulateChangeTagDefTest::testRun(), MediaWiki\Tests\Maintenance\PopulateChangeTagDefTest::testRunUpdateHitCountMigrationNew(), MediaWiki\Tests\Maintenance\PopulateChangeTagDefTest::testRunUpdateHitCountMigrationWriteBoth(), MultiWriteBagOStuffTest::testSetDelayed(), ChangeTagsTest::testUpdateTagsMigrationOld(), ChangeTagsTest::testUpdateTagsMigrationWriteBoth(), ApiResultTest::testUtilityFunctions(), FormatJsonTest::toObject(), and MediaWiki\Auth\ResetPasswordSecondaryAuthenticationProvider::tryReset().

of

BatchRowIterator $reader Iterator that returns an array BatchRowUpdate::of

database rows

Definition at line 7 of file globals.txt.

Referenced by DumpBackup::__construct(), Exif::__construct(), CleanupInvalidDbKeys::__construct(), PopulateCategory::__construct(), PopulateInterwiki::__construct(), RecountCategories::__construct(), ManageForeignResources::__construct(), UpdateCollation::__construct(), and(), and(), array(), PHPVersionCheck::checkRequiredPHPVersion(), content(), Contribution(), JobQueueRedis::doAck(), HistoryPager::doBatchLookups(), Parser::doMagicLinks(), Parser::doTableStuff(), UpdateLogging::execute(), Language::fetchLanguageNamesUncached(), files(), DateFormatter::formatDate(), RedisLockManager::freeLocksOnServer(), UploadBase::getExistsWarning(), RedisLockManager::getLocksOnServer(), groups(), CheckLanguageCLI::help(), CheckExtensionsCLI::help(), PoolCounterRedis::initAndPopPoolSlotList(), instance(), EditPage::internalAttemptSave(), ParserOutput::isLinkInternal(), MessageCache::load(), ChangesListSpecialPage::makeLegend(), MediaWikiServices(), of(), or(), or(), JobQueueRedis::popAndAcquireBlob(), JobQueueRedis::pushBlobs(), query(), PoolCounterRedis::registerAcquisitionTime(), PoolCounterRedis::release(), showUsage(), slave(), WikitextStructureTest::testHeadings(), and text().

seen

globals will be eliminated from MediaWiki replaced by an application object which would be passed to constructors Whether that would be an convenient solution remains to be seen

Definition at line 31 of file globals.txt.

settings

globals will be eliminated from MediaWiki replaced by an application object which would be passed to constructors Whether that would be an convenient solution remains to be but certainly PHP makes such object oriented programming models easier than they were in previous versions For the time being MediaWiki programmers will have to work in an environment with some global context At the time of globals were initialised on startup by MediaWiki of these were configuration settings

Definition at line 37 of file globals.txt.

Referenced by Installer::__construct(), HashConfig::__construct(), WebInstallerOptions::execute(), WebInstaller::execute(), SiteConfiguration::extractAllGlobals(), HashConfig::get(), SiteConfiguration::getAll(), SiteConfiguration::getSetting(), Installer::getVar(), HashConfig::has(), CheckLanguageCLI::help(), CheckExtensionsCLI::help(), WebInstaller::reset(), HashConfig::set(), and Installer::setVar().

though

globals will be eliminated from MediaWiki replaced by an application object which would be passed to constructors Whether that would be an convenient solution remains to be but certainly PHP makes such object oriented programming models easier than they were in previous versions For the time being though

Definition at line 35 of file globals.txt.

writing

globals will be eliminated from MediaWiki replaced by an application object which would be passed to constructors Whether that would be an convenient solution remains to be but certainly PHP makes such object oriented programming models easier than they were in previous versions For the time being MediaWiki programmers will have to work in an environment with some global context At the time of writing

Definition at line 36 of file globals.txt.

Referenced by MediaWikiServices(), and Work().