** Database constructor calling sequence, and Database::newFromParams()
** Including flags in the server initialisation structs
** Support for setting appropriate flags from legacy globals in Setup.php
** Moved some defines to Define.php so that they can be used in LocalSettings.php, most importantly the bit field constants
* Changes related to post-parse link colouring
** Turn the link cache back on when using it for updating the links table
** No longer need to call preFill() on page view
* Better synchronisation of slave servers
** Rearranged getConnection()
** System for beginning and committing transactions when multiple connections are open
** wfAbruptExit() commits transactions, wfErrorExit() does not. Various functions changed to use wfErrorAbort()
* Allowed reporting of database errors during deferred updates by moving them above output()
* DB_WRITE now called DB_MASTER, DB_READ now called DB_SLAVE
* Converted to use SQL wrapper functions instead of direct SQL in various places
* Experimental method for preserving the chronological order of events when slave servers are used. Untested.
* Fixes to the new post-parse existence test feature
* Some.. other stuff
_page_ links to category pages like [[:category:Some cat]] will stay in
links/brokenlinks and not be listed in the category page list anymore.
A link can optionally specify a sort key like this: [[category:cat|Sort me]].
The page will then be sorted in category lists according to the given text
instead of the page name; thus categories may be sorted arbitrarily, by
last name or whatever.
There is also a timestamp field included on gwicke's request; this is not
used yet. Also it will currently be updated at every edit of the page,
this can be changed by implementing differential updating for the cat links.
TODO:
* Make sure that automatic sort keys are updated on page rename.
* Make sure cateory pages get cache-invalidated and purged
* Use proper text sorting instead of raw binary sort
* Allow specification of the display style on category pages: comma list
or bullet list or number list; by sortkey or by timestamp; etc
This saves trouble in a number of places where we can now do joins with the link tables to get other info (such as cur_is_redirect!) as well as the name, and fewer bits need to be juggled on page renaming, as outgoing links no longer have to be changed (cur_id remains the same when a page is renamed).
rebuildLinks.inc and some of the tools in the 'maintenance page' still need to be updated to work with the new setup. (Special:Maintenance needs a *lot* of cleanup in general. It's kind of a catch-all of vaguely defined features which suck performance like a hydroelectric dam.)
Also I've slipped in some extra debug code. And, I think 'indexes.sql' is a big waste of time and should all be moved into tables.sql. Building indexes separately doesn't help on InnoDB and won't do anything on MyISAM either if you're just going to replace the table after it's built with an imported one from a dump which creates it with indexes.
object to encapsulate the handling of get/post variables:
The following grab something out of $_REQUEST. The first parameter is the
variable name and is required. The second is an optional default value:
$wgRequest->getVal() - any type, returns NULL if no default given
$wgRequest->getInt() - forced integer, 0 default
$wgRequest->getText() - runs through $wgLang->recodeInput()
$wgRequest->getBool() - return true/false
$wgRequest->getCheck() - returns true if the var is set, even if to ""
$wgRequest strips slashes at initialization if necessary.
Also in this fine object:
$wgRequest->wasPosted() - returns false if this wasn't a real form post,
so we can protect against faked submissions in get urls.
There's still plenty of work to do, not everything uses the new functions
yet. To test the strict mode, do define('DEBUG_GLOBALS', 1);
(specifically, turning brokenlinks on a new page into live links), which
should also fix the old code not touching the cache timestamps for pages
linking to the 'new' title after a move.
