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Functions
	wfAppendQuery ( $url, $query)
	Append a query string to an existing URL, which may or may not already have query string parameters already.

	wfArrayDiff2 ( $arr1, $arr2)
	Like array_diff( $arr1, $arr2 ) except that it works with two-dimensional arrays.

	wfArrayInsertAfter (array $array, array $insert, $after)
	Insert an array into another array after the specified key.

	wfArrayPlus2d (array $baseArray, array $newValues)
	Merges two (possibly) 2 dimensional arrays into the target array ($baseArray).

	wfArrayToCgi ( $array1, $array2=null, $prefix='')
	This function takes one or two arrays as input, and returns a CGI-style string, e.g.

	wfAssembleUrl ( $urlParts)
	This function will reassemble a URL parsed with wfParseURL.

	wfBacktrace ( $raw=null)
	Get a debug backtrace as a string.

	wfBaseName ( $path, $suffix='')
	Return the final portion of a pathname.

	wfBoolToStr ( $value)
	Convenience function converts boolean values into "true" or "false" (string) values.

	wfCgiToArray ( $query)
	This is the logical opposite of wfArrayToCgi(): it accepts a query string as its argument and returns the same string in array form.

	wfClientAcceptsGzip ( $force=false)
	Whether the client accept gzip encoding.

	wfDebug ( $text, $dest='all', array $context=[])
	Sends a line to the debug log if enabled or, optionally, to a comment in output.

	wfDebugBacktrace ( $limit=0)
	Safety wrapper for debug_backtrace().

	wfDebugLog ( $logGroup, $text, $dest='all', array $context=[])
	Send a line to a supplementary debug log file, if configured, or main debug log if not.

	wfDeprecated ( $function, $version=false, $component=false, $callerOffset=2)
	Logs a warning that a deprecated feature was used.

	wfDeprecatedMsg ( $msg, $version=false, $component=false, $callerOffset=2)
	Log a deprecation warning with arbitrary message text.

	wfEscapeShellArg (... $args)
	Locale-independent version of escapeshellarg()

	wfEscapeWikiText ( $input)
	Escapes the given text so that it may be output using addWikiText() without any linking, formatting, etc.

	wfExpandIRI ( $url)
	Take a URL, make sure it's expanded to fully qualified, and replace any encoded non-ASCII Unicode characters with their UTF-8 original forms for more compact display and legibility for local audiences.

	wfExpandUrl ( $url, $defaultProto=PROTO_CURRENT)
	Expand a potentially local URL to a fully-qualified URL using $wgServer (or one of its alternatives).

	wfFormatStackFrame ( $frame)
	Return a string representation of frame.

	wfGetAllCallers ( $limit=3)
	Return a string consisting of callers in the stack.

	wfGetCaller ( $level=2)
	Get the name of the function which called this function wfGetCaller( 1 ) is the function with the wfGetCaller() call (ie.

	wfGetDB ( $db, $groups=[], $wiki=false)
	Get a Database object.

	wfGetNull ()
	Get a platform-independent path to the null file, e.g.

	wfGetServerUrl ( $proto)
	Get the wiki's "server", i.e.

	wfGetUrlUtils ()

	wfHostname ()
	Get host name of the current machine, for use in error reporting.

	wfHttpError ( $code, $label, $desc)
	Provide a simple HTTP error.

	wfIniGetBool ( $setting)
	Safety wrapper around ini_get() for boolean settings.

	wfIsDebugRawPage ()
	Returns true if debug logging should be suppressed if $wgDebugRawPage = false.

	wfIsInfinity ( $str)
	Determine input string is represents as infinity.

	wfLoadExtension ( $ext, $path=null)
	Load an extension.

	wfLoadExtensions (array $exts)
	Load multiple extensions at once.

	wfLoadSkin ( $skin, $path=null)
	Load a skin.

	wfLoadSkins (array $skins)
	Load multiple skins at once.

	wfLogDBError ( $text, array $context=[])
	Log for database errors.

	wfLogWarning ( $msg, $callerOffset=1, $level=E_USER_WARNING)
	Send a warning as a PHP error and the debug log.

	wfMatchesDomainList ( $url, $domains)
	Check whether a given URL has a domain that occurs in a given set of domains.

	wfMemoryLimit ( $newLimit)
	Raise PHP's memory limit (if needed).

	wfMerge (string $old, string $mine, string $yours, ?string &$simplisticMergeAttempt, ?string &$mergeLeftovers=null)
	wfMerge attempts to merge differences between three texts.

	wfMergeErrorArrays (... $args)
	Merge arrays in the style of PermissionManager::getPermissionErrors, with duplicate removal e.g.

	wfMessage ( $key,... $params)
	This is the function for getting translated interface messages.

	wfMessageFallback (... $keys)
	This function accepts multiple message keys and returns a message instance for the first message which is non-empty.

	wfMkdirParents ( $dir, $mode=null, $caller=null)
	Make directory, and make all parent directories if they don't exist.

	wfMsgReplaceArgs ( $message, $args)
	Replace message parameter keys on the given formatted output.

	wfObjectToArray ( $objOrArray, $recursive=true)
	Recursively converts the parameter (an object) to an array with the same data.

	wfParseUrl ( $url)
	parse_url() work-alike, but non-broken.

	wfPercent ( $nr, int $acc=2, bool $round=true)

	wfRandom ()
	Get a random decimal value in the domain of [0, 1), in a way not likely to give duplicate values for any realistic number of articles.

	wfRandomString ( $length=32)
	Get a random string containing a number of pseudo-random hex characters.

	wfRecursiveRemoveDir ( $dir)
	Remove a directory and all its content.

	wfRelativePath ( $path, $from)
	Generate a relative path name to the given file.

	wfResetOutputBuffers ( $resetGzipEncoding=true)
	Clear away any user-level output buffers, discarding contents.

	wfScript ( $script='index')
	Get the URL path to a MediaWiki entry point.

	wfSetBit (&$dest, $bit, $state=true)
	As for wfSetVar except setting a bit.

	wfSetVar (&$dest, $source, $force=false)
	Sets dest to source and returns the original value of dest If source is NULL, it just returns the value, it doesn't set the variable If force is true, it will set the value even if source is NULL.

	wfShellExec ( $cmd, &$retval=null, $environ=[], $limits=[], $options=[])
	Execute a shell command, with time and memory limits mirrored from the PHP configuration if supported.

	wfShellExecWithStderr ( $cmd, &$retval=null, $environ=[], $limits=[])
	Execute a shell command, returning both stdout and stderr.

	wfShellWikiCmd ( $script, array $parameters=[], array $options=[])
	Generate a shell-escaped command line string to run a MediaWiki cli script.

	wfShorthandToInteger (?string $string='', int $default=-1)
	Converts shorthand byte notation to integer form.

	wfStringToBool ( $val)
	Convert string value to boolean, when the following are interpreted as true:

	wfStripIllegalFilenameChars ( $name)
	Replace all invalid characters with '-'.

	wfTempDir ()
	Tries to get the system directory for temporary files.

	wfThumbIsStandard (File $file, array $params)
	Returns true if these thumbnail parameters match one that MediaWiki requests from file description pages and/or parser output.

	wfTimestamp ( $outputtype=TS_UNIX, $ts=0)
	Get a timestamp string in one of various formats.

	wfTimestampNow ()
	Convenience function; returns MediaWiki timestamp for the present time.

	wfTimestampOrNull ( $outputtype=TS_UNIX, $ts=null)
	Return a formatted timestamp, or null if input is null.

	wfTransactionalTimeLimit ()
	Raise the request time limit to $wgTransactionalTimeLimit.

	wfUrlencode ( $s)
	We want some things to be included as literal characters in our title URLs for prettiness, which urlencode encodes by default.

	wfUrlProtocols ( $includeProtocolRelative=true)
	Returns a partial regular expression of recognized URL protocols, e.g.

	wfUrlProtocolsWithoutProtRel ()
	Like wfUrlProtocols(), but excludes '//' from the protocol list.

	wfVarDump ( $var)
	A wrapper around the PHP function var_export().

	wfWarn ( $msg, $callerOffset=1, $level=E_USER_NOTICE)
	Send a warning either to the debug log or in a PHP error depending on $wgDevelopmentWarnings.

Detailed Description

Global functions used everywhere.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html

Definition in file GlobalFunctions.php.

Function Documentation

◆ wfAppendQuery()

wfAppendQuery	(		$url,
			$query )

Append a query string to an existing URL, which may or may not already have query string parameters already.

If so, they will be combined.

Parameters

string	$url
string \| array	$query	String or associative array

Returns: string

Definition at line 439 of file GlobalFunctions.php.

References $url, and wfArrayToCgi().

◆ wfArrayDiff2()

wfArrayDiff2	(		$arr1,
			$arr2 )

Like array_diff( $arr1, $arr2 ) except that it works with two-dimensional arrays.

Deprecated: since 1.43 Use StatusValue::merge() instead

Parameters

string[] \| array[]	$arr1
string[] \| array[]	$arr2

Returns: array

Definition at line 120 of file GlobalFunctions.php.

References wfDeprecated().

◆ wfArrayInsertAfter()

wfArrayInsertAfter	(	array	$array,
		array	$insert,
			$after )

Insert an array into another array after the specified key.

If the key is not present in the input array, it is returned without modification.

Parameters

array	$array
array	$insert	The array to insert.
mixed	$after	The key to insert after.

Returns: array

Definition at line 203 of file GlobalFunctions.php.

Referenced by MediaWiki\Api\ApiComparePages\getAllowedParams(), MediaWiki\Specials\SpecialDeletedContributions\getUserLinks(), SkinTemplate\injectLegacyMenusIntoPersonalTools(), and UpdateExtensionJsonSchema\updateTo2().

◆ wfArrayPlus2d()

wfArrayPlus2d	(	array	$baseArray,
		array	$newValues )

Merges two (possibly) 2 dimensional arrays into the target array ($baseArray).

Values that exist in both values will be combined with += (all values of the array of $newValues will be added to the values of the array of $baseArray, while values, that exists in both, the value of $baseArray will be used).

Parameters

array	$baseArray	The array where you want to add the values of $newValues to
array	$newValues	An array with new values

Returns: array The combined array

Since: 1.26

Definition at line 2103 of file GlobalFunctions.php.

Referenced by MediaWiki\HTMLForm\Field\HTMLUserTextField\__construct(), and MediaWiki\Registration\ExtensionRegistry\exportExtractedData().

◆ wfArrayToCgi()

wfArrayToCgi	(	$array1,
		$array2 = null,
		$prefix = '' )

This function takes one or two arrays as input, and returns a CGI-style string, e.g.

"days=7&limit=100". Options in the first array override options in the second. Options set to null or false will not be output.

Parameters

array	$array1	( String\|Array )
array \| null	$array2	( String\|Array )
string	$prefix

Returns: string

Definition at line 347 of file GlobalFunctions.php.

References wfArrayToCgi().

Referenced by MediaWiki\Request\WebRequest\appendQueryArray(), MediaWiki\SpecialPage\SpecialPage\checkLoginSecurityLevel(), MediaWiki\Specials\SpecialNewPages\execute(), PopulateInterwiki\fetchLinks(), MediaWiki\Pager\AllMessagesTablePager\formatValue(), MediaWiki\Title\Title\getCanonicalURL(), MediaTransformOutput\getDescLinkAttribs(), MediaWiki\SpecialPage\LoginSignupSpecialPage\getFieldDefinitions(), FormAction\getForm(), MediaWiki\SpecialPage\FormSpecialPage\getForm(), MediaWiki\Title\Title\getFullURL(), MediaWiki\Title\Title\getInternalURL(), MediaWiki\Title\Title\getLocalURL(), MediaWiki\Specials\SpecialRunJobs\getQuerySignature(), MediaWiki\Skin\SkinComponentUtils\getReturnToParam(), MediaWiki\Installer\WebInstaller\getUrl(), MediaWiki\SpecialPage\AuthManagerSpecialPage\handleReauthBeforeExecute(), UserNotLoggedIn\report(), PurgeAction\show(), MediaWiki\Output\OutputPage\showPermissionInternal(), MediaWiki\SpecialPage\ChangesListSpecialPage\validateOptions(), wfAppendQuery(), and wfArrayToCgi().

◆ wfAssembleUrl()

wfAssembleUrl ( $urlParts )

This function will reassemble a URL parsed with wfParseURL.

This is useful if you need to edit part of a URL and put it back together.

This is the basic structure used (brackets contain keys for $urlParts): [scheme][delimiter][user]:[pass]@[host]:[port][path]?[query]#[fragment]

Deprecated: since 1.39, use UrlUtils::assemble()

Since: 1.19

Parameters

array $urlParts URL parts, as output from wfParseUrl

Returns: string URL assembled from its component parts

Definition at line 556 of file GlobalFunctions.php.

◆ wfBacktrace()

wfBacktrace ( $raw = null )

Get a debug backtrace as a string.

Parameters

bool | null $raw If true, the return value is plain text. If false, HTML. Defaults to true if MW_ENTRY_POINT is 'cli', otherwise false.

Returns: string

Since: 1.25 Supports $raw parameter.

Definition at line 967 of file GlobalFunctions.php.

References MW_ENTRY_POINT, and wfDebugBacktrace().

◆ wfBaseName()

wfBaseName	(		$path,
			$suffix = '' )

Return the final portion of a pathname.

Reimplemented because PHP5's "basename()" is buggy with multibyte text. https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=33898

PHP's basename() only considers '\' a pathchar on Windows and Netware. We'll consider it so always, as we don't want '\s' in our Unix paths either.

Parameters

string	$path
string	$suffix	String to remove if present

Returns: string

Definition at line 1733 of file GlobalFunctions.php.

References $matches, and $path.

Referenced by Exif\__construct(), ImageBuilder\checkMissingImage(), FileOpPerfTest\doPerfTest(), MediaWiki\FileRepo\AuthenticatedFileEntryPoint\execute(), ImportImages\execute(), wfRelativePath(), and wfStripIllegalFilenameChars().

◆ wfBoolToStr()

wfBoolToStr ( $value )

Convenience function converts boolean values into "true" or "false" (string) values.

Parameters

bool $value

Returns: string

Definition at line 1872 of file GlobalFunctions.php.

Referenced by MediaWiki\Api\ApiRsd\formatRsdApiList(), and MediaWiki\Cache\FileCacheBase\isCacheGood().

◆ wfCgiToArray()

wfCgiToArray ( $query )

This is the logical opposite of wfArrayToCgi(): it accepts a query string as its argument and returns the same string in array form.

This allows compatibility with legacy functions that accept raw query strings instead of nice arrays. Of course, keys and values are urldecode()d.

Parameters

string $query Query string

Returns: string[] Array version of input

Definition at line 392 of file GlobalFunctions.php.

Referenced by MediaWiki\Linker\Linker\makeBrokenImageLinkObj(), MediaWiki\Specials\SpecialChangeEmail\onSuccess(), MediaWiki\Output\OutputPage\returnToMain(), LoginHelper\showReturnToPage(), MediaWiki\Linker\Linker\specialLink(), MediaWiki\Storage\SqlBlobStore\splitBlobAddress(), and MediaWiki\Specials\SpecialCreateAccount\successfulAction().

◆ wfClientAcceptsGzip()

wfClientAcceptsGzip ( $force = false )

Whether the client accept gzip encoding.

Uses the Accept-Encoding header to check if the client supports gzip encoding. Use this when considering to send a gzip-encoded response to the client.

Parameters

bool $force Forces another check even if we already have a cached result.

Returns: bool

Definition at line 1055 of file GlobalFunctions.php.

References wfDebug().

Referenced by HTMLFileCache\loadFromFileCache(), and HTMLFileCache\saveToFileCache().

◆ wfDebug()

wfDebug	(		$text,
			$dest = 'all',
		array	$context = [] )

Sends a line to the debug log if enabled or, optionally, to a comment in output.

In normal operation this is a NOP.

Controlling globals: $wgDebugLogFile - points to the log file $wgDebugRawPage - if false, 'action=raw' hits will not result in debug output. $wgDebugComments - if on, some debug items may appear in comments in the HTML output.

Since: 1.25 support for additional context data

Parameters

string	$text
string \| bool	$dest	Destination of the message: 'all': both to the log and HTML (debug toolbar or HTML comments) 'private': excluded from HTML output For backward compatibility, it can also take a boolean: true: same as 'all' false: same as 'private'
array	$context	Additional logging context data

Definition at line 663 of file GlobalFunctions.php.

References $wgDebugLogPrefix, $wgDebugRawPage, and wfIsDebugRawPage().

◆ wfDebugBacktrace()

wfDebugBacktrace ( $limit = 0 )

Safety wrapper for debug_backtrace().

Will return an empty array if debug_backtrace is disabled, otherwise the output from debug_backtrace() (trimmed).

Parameters

int $limit This parameter can be used to limit the number of stack frames returned

Returns: array Array of backtrace information

Definition at line 939 of file GlobalFunctions.php.

References wfDebug().

Referenced by wfBacktrace(), wfGetAllCallers(), and wfGetCaller().

◆ wfDebugLog()

wfDebugLog	(		$logGroup,
			$text,
			$dest = 'all',
		array	$context = [] )

Send a line to a supplementary debug log file, if configured, or main debug log if not.

To configure a supplementary log file, set $wgDebugLogGroups[$logGroup] to a string filename or an associative array mapping 'destination' to the desired filename. The associative array may also contain a 'sample' key with an integer value, specifying a sampling factor. Sampled log events will be emitted with a 1 in N random chance.

Since: 1.23 support for sampling log messages via $wgDebugLogGroups.; 1.25 support for additional context data; 1.25 sample behavior dependent on configured $wgMWLoggerDefaultSpi

Parameters

string	$logGroup
string	$text
string \| bool	$dest	Destination of the message: 'all': both to the log and HTML (debug toolbar or HTML comments) 'private': only to the specific log if set in $wgDebugLogGroups and discarded otherwise For backward compatibility, it can also take a boolean: true: same as 'all' false: same as 'private'
array	$context	Additional logging context data

Definition at line 727 of file GlobalFunctions.php.

Referenced by MediaWiki\MediaWikiEntryPoint\commitMainTransaction(), UploadFromChunks\concatenateChunks(), WebPHandler\decodeLosslessChunkHeader(), WebPHandler\decodeLossyChunkHeader(), JobQueueRedis\doAck(), JobQueueRedis\doBatchPush(), JobQueueRedis\doPop(), DjVuHandler\doTransform(), SvgHandler\doTransform(), TransformationalImageHandler\doTransform(), MediaWiki\FileRepo\AuthenticatedFileEntryPoint\execute(), CheckUsernames\execute(), WebPHandler\extractMetadata(), WebPHandler\extractMetadataFromChunks(), MediaWiki\Message\Message\formatListParam(), IPTC\getCharset(), MediaWiki\Content\ContentHandler\getContentText(), MediaWiki\Request\WebResponse\header(), MediaHandler\logErrorForExternalProcess(), JobQueueFederated\logException(), MediaWiki\Api\ApiBase\logFeatureUsage(), MediaWiki\Api\ApiMain\logRequest(), MediaWiki\Actions\ActionEntryPoint\maybeDoHttpsRedirect(), LocalFile\move(), MediaWiki\Site\MediaWikiPageNameNormalizer\normalizePageName(), IPTC\parse(), MediaWiki\Deferred\CdnCacheUpdate\purge(), UploadFromUrl\reallyFetchFile(), MediaHandler\removeBadFile(), UploadFromUrl\saveTempFileChunk(), MediaWiki\Request\WebResponse\setCookie(), and MediaWiki\Request\WebResponse\statusHeader().

◆ wfDeprecated()

wfDeprecated	(	$function,
		$version = false,
		$component = false,
		$callerOffset = 2 )

Logs a warning that a deprecated feature was used.

To write a custom deprecation message, use wfDeprecatedMsg() instead.

Parameters

string	$function	Feature that is deprecated.
string \| false	$version	Version of MediaWiki that the feature was deprecated in (Added in 1.19).
string \| bool	$component	Component to which the feature belongs. If false, it is assumed the function is in MediaWiki core (Added in 1.19).
int	$callerOffset	How far up the call stack is the original caller. 2 = function that called the function that called wfDeprecated (Added in 1.20).

Exceptions

InvalidArgumentException If the MediaWiki version number specified by $version is neither a string nor false.

Definition at line 766 of file GlobalFunctions.php.

◆ wfDeprecatedMsg()

wfDeprecatedMsg	(	$msg,
		$version = false,
		$component = false,
		$callerOffset = 2 )

Log a deprecation warning with arbitrary message text.

A caller description will be appended. If the message has already been sent for this caller, it won't be sent again.

Although there are component and version parameters, they are not automatically appended to the message. The message text should include information about when the thing was deprecated. The component and version are just used to implement $wgDeprecationReleaseLimit.

Since: 1.35

Parameters

string	$msg	The message
string \| false	$version	Version of MediaWiki that the function was deprecated in.
string \| bool	$component	Component to which the function belongs. If false, it is assumed the function is in MediaWiki core.
int \| false	$callerOffset	How far up the call stack is the original caller. 2 = function that called the function that called us. If false, the caller description will not be appended.

Definition at line 797 of file GlobalFunctions.php.

Referenced by MediaWiki\Language\Language\__construct(), MediaWiki\HTMLForm\HTMLFormField\__construct(), MediaWiki\Rest\Validator\JsonBodyValidator\__construct(), Wikimedia\Message\ScalarParam\__construct(), MediaWiki\StubObject\StubGlobalUser\__destruct(), MediaWiki\Parser\CacheTime\__get(), MediaWiki\Parser\ParserOutput\__get(), MediaWiki\Parser\CacheTime\__set(), MediaWiki\Parser\ParserOutput\__set(), MediaWiki\Parser\ParserOutput\addWarningMsg(), MediaWiki\Parser\Parser\braceSubstitution(), MediaWiki\DAO\deprecateInvalidCrossWiki(), MediaWiki\User\User\getActorId(), RecentChange\getAttribute(), MediaWiki\Site\MediaWikiSite\getFileUrl(), MediaWiki\SpecialPage\ContributionsSpecialPage\getForm(), MediaWiki\MediaWikiServices\getInstance(), MediaWiki\HTMLForm\Field\HTMLInfoField\getOOUI(), MediaWiki\MediaWikiServices\getService(), MediaWiki\Revision\RevisionStore\getTitle(), LocalFile\loadFromRow(), MediaWiki\User\User\newSystemUser(), MediaWiki\HookContainer\FauxGlobalHookArray\offsetExists(), MediaWiki\HookContainer\FauxGlobalHookArray\offsetGet(), MediaWiki\HookContainer\FauxGlobalHookArray\offsetSet(), MediaWiki\HookContainer\FauxGlobalHookArray\offsetUnset(), MediaWiki\Deferred\LinksUpdate\LinksUpdate\queueRecursiveJobsForTable(), MediaWiki\Api\ApiBase\requirePostedParameters(), MediaWiki\Search\SearchWidgets\DidYouMeanWidget\rewrittenHtml(), MediaWiki\Parser\CacheTime\setCacheTime(), MediaWiki\Specials\SpecialSearch\showResults(), and MediaWiki\Search\SearchWidgets\DidYouMeanWidget\suggestionHtml().

◆ wfEscapeShellArg()

wfEscapeShellArg ( $args )

Locale-independent version of escapeshellarg()

Originally, this fixed the incorrect use of single quotes on Windows (https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=26285) and the locale problems on Linux in PHP 5.2.6+ (https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=54391). The second bug is still open as of 2021.

Parameters

string|string[] ...$args strings to escape and glue together, or a single array of strings parameter

Returns: string

Deprecated: since 1.30 use MediaWiki\Shell\Shell::escape()

Definition at line 1511 of file GlobalFunctions.php.

◆ wfEscapeWikiText()

wfEscapeWikiText ( $input )

Escapes the given text so that it may be output using addWikiText() without any linking, formatting, etc.

making its way through. This is achieved by substituting certain characters with HTML entities. As required by the callers, "<nowiki>" is not used.

Parameters

string | null | false $input Text to be escaped

Returns: string

Definition at line 1089 of file GlobalFunctions.php.

References $wgEnableMagicLinks, and $wgUrlProtocols.

◆ wfExpandIRI()

wfExpandIRI ( $url )

Take a URL, make sure it's expanded to fully qualified, and replace any encoded non-ASCII Unicode characters with their UTF-8 original forms for more compact display and legibility for local audiences.

Deprecated: since 1.39, use UrlUtils::expandIRI(); hard-deprecated since 1.43

Parameters

string $url

Returns: string

Definition at line 625 of file GlobalFunctions.php.

References $url, wfDeprecated(), and wfGetUrlUtils().

◆ wfExpandUrl()

wfExpandUrl	(		$url,
			$defaultProto = PROTO_CURRENT )

Expand a potentially local URL to a fully-qualified URL using $wgServer (or one of its alternatives).

The meaning of the PROTO_* constants is as follows: PROTO_HTTP: Output a URL starting with http:// PROTO_HTTPS: Output a URL starting with https:// PROTO_RELATIVE: Output a URL starting with // (protocol-relative URL) PROTO_CURRENT: Output a URL starting with either http:// or https:// , depending on which protocol was used for the current incoming request PROTO_CANONICAL: For URLs without a domain, like /w/index.php , use $wgCanonicalServer. For protocol-relative URLs, use the protocol of $wgCanonicalServer PROTO_INTERNAL: Like PROTO_CANONICAL, but uses $wgInternalServer instead of $wgCanonicalServer

If $url specifies a protocol, or $url is domain-relative and $wgServer specifies a protocol, PROTO_HTTP, PROTO_HTTPS, PROTO_RELATIVE and PROTO_CURRENT do not change that.

Parent references (/../) in the path are resolved (as in UrlUtils::removeDotSegments()).

Deprecated: since 1.39, use UrlUtils::expand()

Parameters

string	$url	An URL; can be absolute (e.g. http://example.com/foo/bar), protocol-relative (//example.com/foo/bar) or domain-relative (/foo/bar).
string \| int \| null	$defaultProto	One of the PROTO_* constants, as described above.

Returns: string|false Fully-qualified URL, current-path-relative URL or false if no valid URL can be constructed

Definition at line 525 of file GlobalFunctions.php.

References $url, MediaWiki\Utils\UrlUtils\expand(), and wfGetUrlUtils().

◆ wfFormatStackFrame()

wfFormatStackFrame ( $frame )

Return a string representation of frame.

Typically, the returned value will be in one of these formats:

method
Fully\Qualified\method
Fully\Qualified\Class->method
Fully\Qualified\Class::method

Parameters

array $frame

Returns: string

Definition at line 1037 of file GlobalFunctions.php.

Referenced by wfGetCaller().

◆ wfGetAllCallers()

wfGetAllCallers ( $limit = 3 )

Return a string consisting of callers in the stack.

Useful sometimes for profiling specific points.

Parameters

int | false $limit The maximum depth of the stack frame to return, or false for the entire stack.

Returns: string

Definition at line 1016 of file GlobalFunctions.php.

References wfDebugBacktrace().

Referenced by MediaWiki\Session\SessionBackend\addData(), MediaWiki\Session\SessionBackend\dirty(), and MediaWiki\Session\SessionBackend\renew().

◆ wfGetCaller()

wfGetCaller ( $level = 2 )

Get the name of the function which called this function wfGetCaller( 1 ) is the function with the wfGetCaller() call (ie.

FUNCTION) wfGetCaller( 2 ) [default] is the caller of the function running wfGetCaller() wfGetCaller( 3 ) is the parent of that.

The format will be the same as for {

See also: wfFormatStackFrame()}.

Parameters

int $level

Returns: string function name or 'unknown'

Definition at line 1000 of file GlobalFunctions.php.

References wfDebugBacktrace(), and wfFormatStackFrame().

Referenced by MediaWiki\StubObject\StubGlobalUser\_unstub(), MediaWiki\StubObject\StubObject\_unstub(), MediaWiki\Deferred\DeferredUpdates\addCallableUpdate(), MediaWiki\Debug\MWDebug\log(), MediaWiki\Request\HeaderCallback\warnIfHeadersSent(), wfShellExec(), and wfShellExecWithStderr().

◆ wfGetDB()

wfGetDB	(	$db,
		$groups = [],
		$wiki = false )

Get a Database object.

Parameters

int	$db	Index of the connection to get. May be DB_PRIMARY for the primary (for write queries), DB_REPLICA for potentially lagged read queries, or an integer >= 0 for a particular server.
string \| string[]	$groups	Query groups. An array of group names that this query belongs to. May contain a single string if the query is only in one group.
string \| false	$wiki	The wiki ID, or false for the current wiki

Note: multiple calls to wfGetDB(DB_REPLICA) during the course of one request will always return the same object, unless the underlying connection or load balancer is manually destroyed.

Note 2: use $this->getDB() in maintenance scripts that may be invoked by updater to ensure that a proper database is being updated.

Note 3: When replacing calls to this with calls to methods on an injected LoadBalancer, LoadBalancer::getConnection is more commonly needed than LoadBalancer::getMaintenanceConnectionRef, which is needed for more advanced administrative tasks. See the IMaintainableDatabase and IDatabase interfaces for details.

Deprecated: since 1.39, emitting warnings since 1.42; instead, you can use: $services = MediaWikiServices::getInstance(); $dbr = $services->getConnectionProvider()->getReplicaDatabase(); $dbw = $services->getConnectionProvider()->getPrimaryDatabase();

… or, in rare circumstances, you may need to use:

$services->getDBLoadBalancer()->getConnection() / getMaintenanceConnectionRef()

Returns: \Wikimedia\Rdbms\DBConnRef

Definition at line 1830 of file GlobalFunctions.php.

References wfDeprecated().

◆ wfGetNull()

wfGetNull ( )

Get a platform-independent path to the null file, e.g.

/dev/null

Returns: string

Definition at line 1881 of file GlobalFunctions.php.

References wfIsWindows().

◆ wfGetServerUrl()

wfGetServerUrl ( $proto )

Get the wiki's "server", i.e.

the protocol and host part of the URL, with a protocol specified using a PROTO_* constant as in wfExpandUrl()

Deprecated: since 1.39, use UrlUtils::getServer(); hard-deprecated since 1.43

Since: 1.32

Parameters

string | int | null $proto One of the PROTO_* constants.

Returns: string The URL

Definition at line 538 of file GlobalFunctions.php.

References wfDeprecated(), and wfGetUrlUtils().

◆ wfGetUrlUtils()

wfGetUrlUtils ( )

Deprecated: since 1.43; get a UrlUtils from services, or construct your own

Access: internal

Returns: UrlUtils from services if initialized, otherwise make one from globals

Definition at line 473 of file GlobalFunctions.php.

Referenced by MediaWiki\Search\SearchWidgets\InterwikiSearchResultSetWidget\generateIconFromFavicon(), MediaWiki\WikiMap\WikiMap\getCanonicalServerInfoForAllWikis(), MediaWiki\Parser\Parser\getExternalLinkRel(), MediaWiki\WikiMap\WikiMap\getWikiFromUrl(), ThumbnailRenderJob\hitThumbUrl(), UploadFromUrl\isAllowedHost(), MediaWiki\RCFeed\RedisPubSubFeedEngine\send(), wfExpandIRI(), wfExpandUrl(), wfGetServerUrl(), wfMatchesDomainList(), wfParseUrl(), wfUrlProtocols(), and wfUrlProtocolsWithoutProtRel().

◆ wfHostname()

wfHostname ( )

Get host name of the current machine, for use in error reporting.

This helps to know which machine in a data center generated the current page.

Returns: string

Definition at line 919 of file GlobalFunctions.php.

References $wgOverrideHostname.

Referenced by MediaWiki\Logger\Monolog\WikiProcessor\__invoke(), MediaWiki\Api\ApiMain\addRequestedFields(), DifferenceEngine\debug(), DjVuHandler\doTransform(), SvgHandler\doTransform(), TransformationalImageHandler\doTransform(), MediaWiki\Logger\LegacyLogger\formatAsWfDebugLog(), MediaWiki\Logger\LegacyLogger\formatAsWfLogDBError(), MediaWiki\Output\OutputPage\getBottomScripts(), MediaHandler\logErrorForExternalProcess(), MediaWiki\Parser\Parser\makeLimitReport(), and MediaWiki\FileRepo\ThumbnailEntryPoint\thumbError().

◆ wfHttpError()

wfHttpError	(	$code,
		$label,
		$desc )

Provide a simple HTTP error.

Parameters

int \| string	$code
string	$label
string	$desc

Definition at line 1235 of file GlobalFunctions.php.

References $wgOut.

Referenced by MediaWiki\Specials\SpecialJavaScriptTest\execute(), MediaWiki\Specials\SpecialRunJobs\execute(), and RawAction\getRawText().

◆ wfIniGetBool()

wfIniGetBool ( $setting )

Safety wrapper around ini_get() for boolean settings.

The values returned from ini_get() are pre-normalized for settings set via php.ini or php_flag/php_admin_flag... but not for those set via php_value/php_admin_value.

It's fairly common for people to use php_value instead of php_flag, which can leave you with an 'off' setting giving a false positive for code that just takes the ini_get() return value as a boolean.

To make things extra interesting, setting via php_value accepts "true" and "yes" as true, but php.ini and php_flag consider them false. :) Unrecognized values go false... again opposite PHP's own coercion from string to bool.

Luckily, 'properly' set settings will always come back as '0' or '1', so we only have to worry about them and the 'improper' settings.

I frickin' hate PHP... :P

Parameters

string $setting

Returns: bool

Definition at line 1473 of file GlobalFunctions.php.

References wfStringToBool().

Referenced by MediaWiki\Http\HttpRequestFactory\canMakeRequests(), MWHttpRequest\canMakeRequests(), UploadBase\isEnabled(), and MediaWiki\Installer\WebInstaller\startSession().

◆ wfIsDebugRawPage()

wfIsDebugRawPage ( )

Returns true if debug logging should be suppressed if $wgDebugRawPage = false.

Returns: bool

Definition at line 685 of file GlobalFunctions.php.

References MW_ENTRY_POINT.

Referenced by MediaWiki\Logger\LegacyLogger\__construct(), and wfDebug().

◆ wfIsInfinity()

wfIsInfinity ( $str )

Determine input string is represents as infinity.

Parameters

string $str The string to determine

Returns: bool

Since: 1.25

Definition at line 1998 of file GlobalFunctions.php.

Referenced by MediaWiki\Api\ApiProtect\execute(), MediaWiki\Specials\SpecialUserRights\expiryToTimestamp(), MediaWiki\Api\ApiResult\formatExpiry(), BlockLogFormatter\getParametersForApi(), WatchAction\makeSuccessMessage(), MediaWiki\Specials\SpecialBlock\setParameter(), and MediaWiki\Language\Language\translateBlockExpiry().

◆ wfLoadExtension()

wfLoadExtension	(		$ext,
			$path = null )

Load an extension.

This queues an extension to be loaded through the ExtensionRegistry system.

Parameters

string	$ext	Name of the extension to load
string \| null	$path	Absolute path of where to find the extension.json file

Since: 1.25

Definition at line 53 of file GlobalFunctions.php.

References $path, and $wgExtensionDirectory.

◆ wfLoadExtensions()

wfLoadExtensions ( array $exts )

Load multiple extensions at once.

Same as wfLoadExtension, but more efficient if you are loading multiple extensions.

If you want to specify custom paths, you should interact with ExtensionRegistry directly.

See also: wfLoadExtension

Parameters

string[] $exts Array of extension names to load

Since: 1.25

Definition at line 74 of file GlobalFunctions.php.

References $wgExtensionDirectory.

◆ wfLoadSkin()

wfLoadSkin	(		$skin,
			$path = null )

Load a skin.

See also: wfLoadExtension

Parameters

string	$skin	Name of the extension to load
string \| null	$path	Absolute path of where to find the skin.json file

Since: 1.25

Definition at line 90 of file GlobalFunctions.php.

References $path, and $wgStyleDirectory.

◆ wfLoadSkins()

wfLoadSkins ( array $skins )

Load multiple skins at once.

See also: wfLoadExtensions

Parameters

string[] $skins Array of extension names to load

Since: 1.25

Definition at line 105 of file GlobalFunctions.php.

References $wgStyleDirectory.

◆ wfLogDBError()

wfLogDBError	(		$text,
		array	$context = [] )

Log for database errors.

Since: 1.25 support for additional context data

Parameters

string	$text	Database error message.
array	$context	Additional logging context data

Definition at line 745 of file GlobalFunctions.php.

◆ wfLogWarning()

wfLogWarning	(	$msg,
		$callerOffset = 1,
		$level = E_USER_WARNING )

Send a warning as a PHP error and the debug log.

This is intended for logging warnings in production. For logging development warnings, use WfWarn instead.

Parameters

string	$msg	Message to send
int	$callerOffset	Number of items to go back in the backtrace to find the correct caller (1 = function calling wfLogWarning, ...)
int	$level	PHP error level; defaults to E_USER_WARNING

Definition at line 825 of file GlobalFunctions.php.

Referenced by MediaWiki\User\User\__get(), MediaWiki\User\User\__set(), MediaWiki\SpecialPage\ChangesListSpecialPage\areFiltersInConflict(), MediaWiki\Storage\SqlBlobStore\compressData(), MediaWiki\Language\Language\convertGrammar(), MediaWiki\Linker\Linker\emailLink(), FormatMetadata\flattenArrayReal(), LogFormatter\formatParametersForApi(), MediaWiki\SpecialPage\SpecialPageFactory\getPage(), MediaWiki\Html\Html\inlineScript(), and MediaWiki\Output\OutputPage\transformFilePath().

◆ wfMatchesDomainList()

wfMatchesDomainList	(		$url,
			$domains )

Check whether a given URL has a domain that occurs in a given set of domains.

Deprecated: since 1.39, use UrlUtils::expandIRI()

Parameters

string	$url
array	$domains	Array of domains (strings)

Returns: bool True if the host part of $url ends in one of the strings in $domains

Definition at line 639 of file GlobalFunctions.php.

References $url, and wfGetUrlUtils().

◆ wfMemoryLimit()

wfMemoryLimit ( $newLimit )

Raise PHP's memory limit (if needed).

Access: internal: For use by Setup.php

Parameters

int $newLimit

Definition at line 1912 of file GlobalFunctions.php.

References wfDebug(), and wfShorthandToInteger().

◆ wfMerge()

wfMerge	(	string	$old,
		string	$mine,
		string	$yours,
		?string &	$simplisticMergeAttempt,
		?string &	$mergeLeftovers = null )

wfMerge attempts to merge differences between three texts.

Parameters

string	$old	Common base revision
string	$mine	The edit we wish to store but which potentially conflicts with another edit which happened since we started editing.
string	$yours	The most recent stored revision of the article. Note that "mine" and "yours" might have another meaning depending on the specific use case.
string \| null	&$simplisticMergeAttempt	Automatically merged text, with overlapping edits falling back to "my" text.
string \| null	&$mergeLeftovers	Optional out parameter containing an "ed" script with the remaining bits of "your" text that could not be merged into $simplisticMergeAttempt. The "ed" file format is documented here: https://www.gnu.org/software/diffutils/manual/html_node/Detailed-ed.html

Returns: bool true for a clean merge and false for failure or a conflict.

Definition at line 1643 of file GlobalFunctions.php.

Referenced by MediaWiki\Content\TextContentHandler\merge3().

◆ wfMergeErrorArrays()

wfMergeErrorArrays ( $args )

Merge arrays in the style of PermissionManager::getPermissionErrors, with duplicate removal e.g.

wfMergeErrorArrays( [ [ 'x' ] ], [ [ 'x', '2' ] ], [ [ 'x' ] ], [ [ 'y' ] ] ); returns: [ [ 'x', '2' ], [ 'x' ], [ 'y' ] ]

Deprecated: since 1.43 Use StatusValue::merge() instead

Parameters

array[] ...$args

Returns: array

Definition at line 176 of file GlobalFunctions.php.

References $params, and wfDeprecated().

◆ wfMessage()

wfMessage	(		$key,
			$params )

This is the function for getting translated interface messages.

See also: Message class for documentation how to use them.; https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Messages_API

This function replaces all old wfMsg* functions.

When the MessageSpecifier object is an instance of Message, a clone of the object is returned. This is unlike the new Message( … ) constructor, which returns a new object constructed from scratch with the same key. This difference is mostly relevant when the passed object is an instance of a subclass like RawMessage or ApiMessage.

Parameters

string \| string[] \| MessageSpecifier	$key	Message key, or array of keys, or a MessageSpecifier
	MessageParam\|MessageSpecifier\|string\|int\|float\|list<MessageParam\|MessageSpecifier\|string\|int\|float>	...$params See Message::params()

Returns: Message

Since: 1.17

See also: Message::__construct

Definition at line 851 of file GlobalFunctions.php.

References $params, and wfMessageFallback().

◆ wfMessageFallback()

wfMessageFallback ( $keys )

This function accepts multiple message keys and returns a message instance for the first message which is non-empty.

If all messages are empty then an instance of the last message key is returned.

Parameters

string ...$keys Message keys

Returns: Message

Since: 1.18

See also: Message::newFallbackSequence

Definition at line 879 of file GlobalFunctions.php.

Referenced by FileRepo\getDisplayName(), ImagePage\openShowImage(), SkinTemplate\tabAction(), and wfMessage().

◆ wfMkdirParents()

wfMkdirParents	(	$dir,
		$mode = null,
		$caller = null )

Make directory, and make all parent directories if they don't exist.

Parameters

string	$dir	Full path to directory to create. Callers should make sure this is not a storage path.
int \| null	$mode	Chmod value to use, default is $wgDirectoryMode
string \| null	$caller	Optional caller param for debugging.

Returns: bool

Definition at line 1385 of file GlobalFunctions.php.

References $wgDirectoryMode, and wfDebug().

Referenced by MediaWiki\Cache\FileCacheBase\checkCacheDirs(), DjVuHandler\doTransform(), SvgHandler\doTransform(), TransformationalImageHandler\doTransform(), GenerateSitemap\execute(), MediaWiki\Utils\GitInfo\precomputeValues(), MediaWiki\ResourceLoader\ForeignResourceManager\run(), LCStoreCDB\startWrite(), and LCStoreStaticArray\startWrite().

◆ wfMsgReplaceArgs()

wfMsgReplaceArgs	(		$message,
			$args )

Replace message parameter keys on the given formatted output.

Parameters

string	$message
array	$args

Returns: string

Access: internal

Definition at line 891 of file GlobalFunctions.php.

Referenced by MWException\msg().

◆ wfObjectToArray()

wfObjectToArray	(		$objOrArray,
			$recursive = true )

Recursively converts the parameter (an object) to an array with the same data.

@phpcs:ignore MediaWiki.Commenting.FunctionComment.ObjectTypeHintParam

Parameters

object \| array	$objOrArray
bool	$recursive

Returns: array

Definition at line 230 of file GlobalFunctions.php.

References wfObjectToArray().

Referenced by wfObjectToArray().

◆ wfParseUrl()

wfParseUrl ( $url )

parse_url() work-alike, but non-broken.

Differences:

1) Handles protocols that don't use :// (e.g., mailto: and news:, as well as protocol-relative URLs) correctly. 2) Adds a "delimiter" element to the array (see (2)). 3) Verifies that the protocol is on the $wgUrlProtocols allowed list. 4) Rejects some invalid URLs that parse_url doesn't, e.g. the empty string or URLs starting with a line feed character.

Deprecated: since 1.39, use UrlUtils::parse()

Parameters

string $url A URL to parse

Returns

string[]|false Bits of the URL in an associative array, or false on failure. Possible fields:

scheme: URI scheme (protocol), e.g. 'http', 'mailto'. Lowercase, always present, but can be an empty string for protocol-relative URLs.
delimiter: either '://', ':' or '//'. Always present.
host: domain name / IP. Always present, but could be an empty string, e.g. for file: URLs.
port: port number. Will be missing when port is not explicitly specified.
user: user name, e.g. for HTTP Basic auth URLs such as http://user:pass@example.com/ Missing when there is no username.
pass: password, same as above.
path: path including the leading /. Will be missing when empty (e.g. 'http://example.com')
query: query string (as a string; see wfCgiToArray() for parsing it), can be missing.
fragment: the part after #, can be missing.

Definition at line 612 of file GlobalFunctions.php.

References $url, and wfGetUrlUtils().

◆ wfPercent()

wfPercent	(		$nr,
		int	$acc = 2,
		bool	$round = true )

Parameters

float \| int	$nr	The number to format
int	$acc	The number of digits after the decimal point, default 2
bool	$round	Whether or not to round the value, default true

Returns: string

Definition at line 1444 of file GlobalFunctions.php.

◆ wfRandom()

wfRandom ( )

Get a random decimal value in the domain of [0, 1), in a way not likely to give duplicate values for any realistic number of articles.

Note: This is designed for use in relation to Special:RandomPage and the page_random database field.

Returns: string

Definition at line 256 of file GlobalFunctions.php.

Referenced by CompareParserCache\execute(), ResetPageRandom\execute(), MediaWiki\Specials\SpecialRandomInCategory\getRandomTitle(), MediaWiki\Specials\SpecialRandomPage\getRandomTitle(), WikiPage\insertOn(), MediaWiki\Title\Title\invalidateCache(), and MediaWiki\Api\ApiQueryRandom\run().

◆ wfRandomString()

wfRandomString ( $length = 32 )

Get a random string containing a number of pseudo-random hex characters.

Note: This is not secure, if you are trying to generate some sort of token please use MWCryptRand instead.

Parameters

int $length The length of the string to generate

Returns: string

Since: 1.20

Definition at line 274 of file GlobalFunctions.php.

Referenced by JobQueueDB\doPop(), SvgHandler\doTransform(), BenchmarkLruHash\execute(), BenchmarkSanitizer\execute(), MakeTestEdits\execute(), MediaWiki\Http\Telemetry\getRequestId(), BenchmarkTitleValue\randomize(), and UploadSourceAdapter\registerSource().

◆ wfRecursiveRemoveDir()

wfRecursiveRemoveDir ( $dir )

Remove a directory and all its content.

Does not hide error.

Parameters

string $dir

Definition at line 1421 of file GlobalFunctions.php.

References wfRecursiveRemoveDir().

Referenced by MediaWiki\ResourceLoader\ForeignResourceManager\run(), and wfRecursiveRemoveDir().

◆ wfRelativePath()

wfRelativePath	(		$path,
			$from )

Generate a relative path name to the given file.

May explode on non-matching case-insensitive paths, funky symlinks, etc.

Parameters

string	$path	Absolute destination path including target filename
string	$from	Absolute source path, directory only

Returns: string

Definition at line 1757 of file GlobalFunctions.php.

References $path, and wfBaseName().

◆ wfResetOutputBuffers()

wfResetOutputBuffers ( $resetGzipEncoding = true )

Clear away any user-level output buffers, discarding contents.

Suitable for 'starting afresh', for instance when streaming relatively large amounts of data without buffering, or wanting to output image files without ob_gzhandler's compression.

The optional $resetGzipEncoding parameter controls suppression of the Content-Encoding header sent by ob_gzhandler; by default it is left. This should be used for HTTP 304 responses, where you need to preserve the Content-Encoding header of the real result, but also need to suppress the output of ob_gzhandler to keep to spec and avoid breaking Firefox in rare cases where the headers and body are broken over two packets.

Note that some PHP configuration options may add output buffer layers which cannot be removed; these are left in place.

Parameters

bool $resetGzipEncoding

Definition at line 1278 of file GlobalFunctions.php.

Referenced by MediaWiki\Api\ApiMain\checkConditionalRequestHeaders(), MediaWiki\Output\OutputPage\checkLastModified(), MediaWiki\Specials\SpecialExport\execute(), and MediaWiki\ResourceLoader\ResourceLoader\tryRespondNotModified().

◆ wfScript()

wfScript ( $script = 'index' )

Get the URL path to a MediaWiki entry point.

This is a wrapper to respect $wgScript and $wgLoadScript overrides.

See also: MW_ENTRY_POINT

Parameters

string $script Name of entrypoint, without .php extension.

Returns: string

Definition at line 1854 of file GlobalFunctions.php.

References $wgLoadScript, $wgScript, and $wgScriptPath.

◆ wfSetBit()

wfSetBit	(	&	$dest,
			$bit,
			$state = true )

As for wfSetVar except setting a bit.

Parameters

int	&$dest
int	$bit
bool	$state

Returns: bool

Definition at line 1200 of file GlobalFunctions.php.

◆ wfSetVar()

wfSetVar	(	&	$dest,
			$source,
			$force = false )

Sets dest to source and returns the original value of dest If source is NULL, it just returns the value, it doesn't set the variable If force is true, it will set the value even if source is NULL.

Parameters

mixed	&$dest
mixed	$source
bool	$force

Returns: mixed

Definition at line 1183 of file GlobalFunctions.php.

References $source.

Referenced by MediaWiki\SpecialPage\SpecialPage\including(), MediaWiki\Block\DatabaseBlock\isAutoblocking(), MediaWiki\Block\AbstractBlock\isEmailBlocked(), MediaWiki\Block\AbstractBlock\isUsertalkEditAllowed(), MediaWiki\Parser\Parser\Options(), MediaWiki\Parser\Parser\OutputType(), MediaWiki\Parser\CacheTime\setCacheTime(), MediaWiki\Output\OutputPage\setFileVersion(), WikiImporter\setNoticeCallback(), MediaWiki\Parser\ParserOptions\setOptionLegacy(), MediaWiki\Output\OutputPage\setRevisionId(), MediaWiki\Output\OutputPage\setRevisionTimestamp(), MediaWiki\Parser\ParserOutput\setText(), MediaWiki\Parser\ParserOutput\setTimestamp(), MediaWiki\Parser\ParserOptions\setTimestamp(), and MediaWiki\Parser\ParserOutput\setTitleText().

◆ wfShellExec()

wfShellExec	(		$cmd,
		&	$retval = null,
			$environ = [],
			$limits = [],
			$options = [] )

Execute a shell command, with time and memory limits mirrored from the PHP configuration if supported.

Parameters

string \| string[]	$cmd	If string, a properly shell-escaped command line, or an array of unescaped arguments, in which case each value will be escaped Example: [ 'convert', '-font', 'font name' ] would produce "'convert' '-font' 'font name'"
null \| mixed	&$retval	Optional, will receive the program's exit code. (non-zero is usually failure). If there is an error from read, select, or proc_open(), this will be set to -1.
array	$environ	Optional environment variables which should be added to the executed command environment.
array	$limits	Optional array with limits(filesize, memory, time, walltime) this overwrites the global wgMaxShell* limits.
array	$options	Array of options: duplicateStderr: Set this to true to duplicate stderr to stdout, including errors from limit.sh profileMethod: By default this function will profile based on the calling method. Set this to a string for an alternative method to profile from

Returns: string Collected stdout as a string

Deprecated: since 1.30 use class MediaWiki\Shell\Shell

Definition at line 1539 of file GlobalFunctions.php.

References wfGetCaller().

Referenced by DjVuHandler\doTransform(), DjVuImage\retrieveMetaData(), and wfShellExecWithStderr().

◆ wfShellExecWithStderr()

wfShellExecWithStderr	(		$cmd,
		&	$retval = null,
			$environ = [],
			$limits = [] )

Execute a shell command, returning both stdout and stderr.

Convenience function, as all the arguments to wfShellExec can become unwieldy.

Note: This also includes errors from limit.sh, e.g. if $wgMaxShellFileSize is exceeded.

Parameters

string \| string[]	$cmd	If string, a properly shell-escaped command line, or an array of unescaped arguments, in which case each value will be escaped Example: [ 'convert', '-font', 'font name' ] would produce "'convert' '-font' 'font name'"
null \| mixed	&$retval	Optional, will receive the program's exit code. (non-zero is usually failure)
array	$environ	Optional environment variables which should be added to the executed command environment.
array	$limits	Optional array with limits(filesize, memory, time, walltime) this overwrites the global wgMaxShell* limits.

Returns: string Collected stdout and stderr as a string

Deprecated: since 1.30 use class MediaWiki\Shell\Shell

Definition at line 1592 of file GlobalFunctions.php.

References wfGetCaller(), and wfShellExec().

Referenced by UploadBase\detectVirus(), TransformationalImageHandler\getMagickVersion(), SvgHandler\rasterize(), BitmapHandler\rotate(), BitmapHandler\transformCustom(), and BitmapHandler\transformImageMagick().

◆ wfShellWikiCmd()

wfShellWikiCmd	(		$script,
		array	$parameters = [],
		array	$options = [] )

Generate a shell-escaped command line string to run a MediaWiki cli script.

Note that $parameters should be a flat array and an option with an argument should consist of two consecutive items in the array (do not use "--option value").

Deprecated: since 1.31, use Shell::makeScriptCommand()

Parameters

string	$script	MediaWiki cli script path
array	$parameters	Arguments and options to the script
array	$options	Associative array of options: 'php': The path to the php executable 'wrapper': Path to a PHP wrapper to handle the maintenance script

Returns: string

Definition at line 1612 of file GlobalFunctions.php.

References $wgPhpCli.

Referenced by CleanupSpam\execute().

◆ wfShorthandToInteger()

wfShorthandToInteger	(	?string	$string = '',
		int	$default = -1 )

Converts shorthand byte notation to integer form.

Parameters

null \| string	$string
int	$default	Returned if $string is empty

Returns: int

Definition at line 1967 of file GlobalFunctions.php.

Referenced by MediaWiki\Installer\Installer\envCheckMemory(), UploadBase\getMaxPhpUploadSize(), MediaWiki\Api\ApiUpload\getMinUploadChunkSize(), MediaWiki\Request\WebRequestUpload\isIniSizeOverflow(), MediaWiki\Api\ApiMain\setupExternalResponse(), and wfMemoryLimit().

◆ wfStringToBool()

wfStringToBool ( $val )

Convert string value to boolean, when the following are interpreted as true:

on
true
yes
Any number, except 0 All other strings are interpreted as false.

Parameters

string $val

Returns: bool

Since: 1.31

Definition at line 1489 of file GlobalFunctions.php.

Referenced by wfIniGetBool().

◆ wfStripIllegalFilenameChars()

wfStripIllegalFilenameChars ( $name )

Replace all invalid characters with '-'.

Additional characters can be defined in $wgIllegalFileChars (see T22489). By default, $wgIllegalFileChars includes ':', '/', '\'.

Parameters

string $name Filename to process

Returns: string

Definition at line 1893 of file GlobalFunctions.php.

References $wgIllegalFileChars, and wfBaseName().

Referenced by UploadBase\getTitle(), and MediaWiki\Page\MovePage\isValidFileMove().

◆ wfTempDir()

wfTempDir ( )

Tries to get the system directory for temporary files.

First $wgTmpDirectory is checked, and then the TMPDIR, TMP, and TEMP environment variables are then checked in sequence, then sys_get_temp_dir(), then upload_tmp_dir from php.ini.

NOTE: When possible, use instead the tmpfile() function to create temporary files to avoid race conditions on file creation, etc.

Returns: string

Definition at line 1367 of file GlobalFunctions.php.

References $wgTmpDirectory.

Referenced by SvgHandler\doTransform(), MWDocGen\execute(), MediaWikiShell\execute(), and MediaWiki\ResourceLoader\Image\rasterize().

◆ wfThumbIsStandard()

wfThumbIsStandard	(	File	$file,
		array	$params )

Returns true if these thumbnail parameters match one that MediaWiki requests from file description pages and/or parser output.

$params is considered non-standard if they involve a non-standard width or any non-default parameters aside from width and page number. The number of possible files with standard parameters is far less than that of all combinations; rate-limiting for them can thus be more generous.

Parameters

File	$file
array	$params

Returns: bool

Since: 1.24 Moved from thumb.php to GlobalFunctions in 1.25

Definition at line 2017 of file GlobalFunctions.php.

References $params, $wgImageLimits, $wgResponsiveImages, $wgThumbLimits, and File\getHandler().

◆ wfTimestamp()

wfTimestamp	(		$outputtype = TS_UNIX,
			$ts = 0 )

Get a timestamp string in one of various formats.

Parameters

mixed	$outputtype	Output format, one of the TS_* constants. Defaults to Unix timestamp.
mixed	$ts	A timestamp in any supported format. The function will autodetect which format is supplied and act accordingly. Use 0 or omit to use current time

Returns: string|false The date in the specified format, or false on error.

Definition at line 1323 of file GlobalFunctions.php.

References wfDebug().

◆ wfTimestampNow()

wfTimestampNow ( )

Convenience function; returns MediaWiki timestamp for the present time.

Returns: string TS_MW timestamp

Definition at line 1352 of file GlobalFunctions.php.

Referenced by MediaWiki\User\UserGroupMembership\__construct(), MediaWiki\Deferred\LinksUpdate\LinksDeletionUpdate\__construct(), CategoryMembershipChange\__construct(), MediaWiki\User\User\confirmEmail(), MediaWiki\Preferences\DefaultPreferencesFactory\datetimePreferences(), MediaWiki\Block\DatabaseBlockStore\doAutoblock(), MediaWiki\Specials\SpecialWatchlist\doHeader(), MediaWiki\PoolCounter\PoolWorkArticleViewOld\doWork(), MediaWiki\Specials\SpecialExport\execute(), MediaWiki\Api\ApiEditPage\execute(), MediaWiki\Api\ApiProtect\execute(), MediaWiki\Api\ApiPurge\execute(), MediaWiki\Api\ApiUserrights\execute(), GenerateSitemap\execute(), ImportTextFiles\execute(), MigrateFileRepoLayout\execute(), ResetUserEmail\execute(), UpdateSearchIndex\execute(), FormatMetadata\fetchExtendedMetadata(), MediaWiki\Session\PHPSessionHandler\gc(), MediaWiki\Preferences\DefaultPreferencesFactory\getDateOptions(), ManualLogEntry\getTimestamp(), MediaWiki\Parser\ParserOptions\getTimestamp(), MediaWiki\EditPage\EditPage\importFormData(), ManualLogEntry\insert(), MediaWiki\Block\DatabaseBlock\isExpired(), Job\newRootJobParams(), MediaWiki\Specials\SpecialLockdb\onSubmit(), MediaWiki\Feed\AtomFeed\outHeader(), MediaWiki\Feed\RSSFeed\outHeader(), MediaWiki\Auth\AbstractTemporaryPasswordPrimaryAuthenticationProvider\providerChangeAuthenticationData(), LogPage\saveContent(), HTMLFileCache\saveToFileCache(), and MediaWiki\Specials\SpecialUserRights\saveUserGroups().

◆ wfTimestampOrNull()

wfTimestampOrNull	(		$outputtype = TS_UNIX,
			$ts = null )

Return a formatted timestamp, or null if input is null.

For dealing with nullable timestamp columns in the database.

Parameters

mixed	$outputtype
mixed \| null	$ts

Returns: string|false|null Null if called with null, otherwise the result of wfTimestamp()

Definition at line 1339 of file GlobalFunctions.php.

References wfTimestamp().

Referenced by MediaWiki\Api\ApiQueryUsers\execute(), ResetPageRandom\execute(), MediaWiki\Api\ApiQueryUserInfo\getCurrentUserInfo(), MediaWiki\Rest\Handler\PageHistoryCountHandler\getLastModifiedTimes(), MediaWiki\Watchlist\NoWriteWatchedItemStore\getLatestNotificationTimestamp(), MediaWiki\Watchlist\WatchedItemStore\getLatestNotificationTimestamp(), MediaWiki\Auth\LocalPasswordPrimaryAuthenticationProvider\getPasswordResetData(), Job\getQueuedTimestamp(), Job\getReleaseTimestamp(), JobSpecification\getReleaseTimestamp(), HTMLCacheUpdateJob\invalidateTitles(), MediaWiki\Auth\AbstractTemporaryPasswordPrimaryAuthenticationProvider\isTimestampValid(), and MediaWiki\User\User\loadFromRow().

◆ wfTransactionalTimeLimit()

wfTransactionalTimeLimit ( )

Raise the request time limit to $wgTransactionalTimeLimit.

Returns: int Prior time limit

Since: 1.26

Definition at line 1937 of file GlobalFunctions.php.

References $wgTransactionalTimeLimit.

Referenced by Action\useTransactionalTimeLimit(), MediaWiki\Api\ApiBase\useTransactionalTimeLimit(), and MediaWiki\SpecialPage\SpecialPage\useTransactionalTimeLimit().

◆ wfUrlencode()

wfUrlencode ( $s )

We want some things to be included as literal characters in our title URLs for prettiness, which urlencode encodes by default.

According to RFC 1738, all of the following should be safe:

;:&=$-_.+!*'(),

RFC 1738 says ~ is unsafe, however RFC 3986 considers it an unreserved character which should not be encoded. More importantly, google chrome always converts %7E back to ~, and converting it in this function can cause a redirect loop (T105265).

But + is not safe because it's used to indicate a space; &= are only safe in paths and not in queries (and we don't distinguish here); ' seems kind of scary; and urlencode() doesn't touch -_. to begin with. Plus, although / is reserved, we don't care. So the list we unescape is:

;:$!*(),/~

However, IIS7 redirects fail when the url contains a colon (see T24709), so no fancy : for IIS7.

%2F in the page titles seems to fatally break for some reason.

Parameters

string $s

Returns: string

Definition at line 309 of file GlobalFunctions.php.

Referenced by MediaWiki\Title\Title\__wakeup(), MediaWiki\Output\OutputPage\addHelpLink(), MediaWiki\Parser\CoreParserFunctions\basepagenamee(), FileRepo\getDescriptionRenderUrl(), FileRepo\getDescriptionUrl(), MediaWiki\Title\Title\getLocalURL(), MediaWiki\Site\MediaWikiSite\getPageUrl(), MediaWiki\Title\Title\getPrefixedURL(), MediaWiki\Title\Title\getSubpageUrlForm(), Interwiki\getURL(), MediaWiki\Api\ApiBase\logFeatureUsage(), MediaWiki\Api\ApiMain\logRequest(), MediaWiki\Title\Title\makeTitle(), MediaWiki\Parser\CoreParserFunctions\namespacee(), MediaWiki\Parser\CoreParserFunctions\nse(), MediaWiki\Parser\CoreParserFunctions\rootpagenamee(), MediaWiki\Parser\CoreParserFunctions\speciale(), MediaWiki\Parser\CoreParserFunctions\subjectspacee(), MediaWiki\Parser\CoreParserFunctions\talkspacee(), and MediaWiki\OutputTransform\Stages\DeduplicateStyles\transformText().

◆ wfUrlProtocols()

wfUrlProtocols ( $includeProtocolRelative = true )

Returns a partial regular expression of recognized URL protocols, e.g.

"http:\\/\\/|https:\\/\\/"

Deprecated: since 1.39, use UrlUtils::validProtocols(); hard-deprecated since 1.43

Parameters

bool $includeProtocolRelative If false, remove '//' from the returned protocol list. DO NOT USE this directly, use wfUrlProtocolsWithoutProtRel() instead

Returns: string

Definition at line 568 of file GlobalFunctions.php.

References wfDeprecated(), and wfGetUrlUtils().

◆ wfUrlProtocolsWithoutProtRel()

wfUrlProtocolsWithoutProtRel ( )

Like wfUrlProtocols(), but excludes '//' from the protocol list.

Use this if you need a regex that matches all URL protocols but does not match protocol- relative URLs

Deprecated: since 1.39, use UrlUtils::validAbsoluteProtocols()

Returns: string

Definition at line 582 of file GlobalFunctions.php.

References wfGetUrlUtils().

◆ wfVarDump()

wfVarDump ( $var )

A wrapper around the PHP function var_export().

Either print it or add it to the regular output ($wgOut).

Parameters

mixed $var A PHP variable to dump.

Definition at line 1218 of file GlobalFunctions.php.

References $wgOut.

◆ wfWarn()

wfWarn	(	$msg,
		$callerOffset = 1,
		$level = E_USER_NOTICE )

Send a warning either to the debug log or in a PHP error depending on $wgDevelopmentWarnings.

To log warnings in production, use wfLogWarning() instead.

Parameters

string	$msg	Message to send
int	$callerOffset	Number of items to go back in the backtrace to find the correct caller (1 = function calling wfWarn, ...)
int	$level	PHP error level; defaults to E_USER_NOTICE; only used when $wgDevelopmentWarnings is true

Definition at line 812 of file GlobalFunctions.php.

Referenced by Exif\__construct(), MediaWiki\Content\TextContent\__construct(), MediaWiki\Storage\SqlBlobStore\decompressData(), RecentChange\doMarkPatrolled(), MediaWiki\Api\ApiEditPage\execute(), ForeignAPIRepo\fileExistsBatch(), MediaWiki\Pager\ContribsPager\getExtraSortFields(), MediaWiki\Pager\ContribsPager\getIndexField(), MediaWiki\SpecialPage\SpecialPageFactory\getLocalNameFor(), MediaWiki\Language\Language\getMagic(), MediaWiki\Revision\SlotRoleRegistry\getRoleHandler(), MediaWiki\Actions\ActionEntryPoint\initializeArticle(), MediaWiki\Linker\Linker\link(), MediaWiki\Html\Html\linkedScript(), MediaWiki\Linker\Linker\makeBrokenImageLinkObj(), MediaWiki\Html\Html\openElement(), and BacklinkJobUtils\partitionBacklinkJob().