* Remove some unused and some useless functions from GlobalSettings.php
* wfEscapeHTML() replaced with PHP built-in htmlspecialchars().
* Moved some functions into Parser.php and Image.php
the message keys instead of the actual messages. I think this will be
very useful to sysops trying to find out what message in the MediaWiki
namespace to edit. I hope this does not incur too much of a server
performance degradation, since this function is used pretty frequently.
Obsoletes: wfTimestamp2Unix, wfUnix2Timestamp, wfTimestampNow;
Autodetects database, mediawiki and unix timestamps
to be done: inverted timestamp support
** 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
* Moving common special page handling to SpecialPage.php
* Special page lists in the language classes are obsolete, replaced by the list in SpecialPage.php
* Special:Specialpages uses the standard page titles wfMsg(pagename) instead of the description list previously contained in the $wgSpecialPagesEn arrays
* Ability to add custom messages to the MessageCache. Overridable by the MediaWiki namespace.
* Moving board vote functionality from includes/SpecialBoardvote.php to extensions/BoardVote.php
Also, urlencode anchor names for non-ascii compatibility. This is the
recommendation of HTML 4.01 standard in B.2.1, as far as I can tell.
Works in UTF-8 at least for IE6/win, Firefox, Safari.
If these features are turned on (with global flags), a metadata link tag is
provided to the appropriate action ('dublincore' or 'creativecommons'). When
the wiki script receives these actions, it creates RDF files on the fly.
Also includes two valuable general functions: one to show an HTTP error
(used when the flags are turned off), and one to do content negotiation
(used to determine the MIME type for RDF files).
A helper function is also added to page output to display metadata links.
* Split MediaWiki namespace into MediaWiki and Template (requires changes to all language files)
* Purge links to on edit of Template namespace
* General refactoring of purging and cache invalidation code
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);
practical, clear methods:
Title::getLocalURL() - "/wiki/index.php/Foobar" or "/wiki/index.php?title=Foobar&action=edit"
Title::getFullUrl() - ditto with $wgServer on the front
Title::getInternalUrl() - ditto with $wgInternalServer on the front (for some squid-related functions)
Title::escapeLocalUrl() - local URL escaped for HTML output
Title::escapeFullUrl() - full URL escaped for HTML output
All take an optional query parameter.
Title::getURL(), wfFullUrl() and wfFullUrlE() are now officially
deprecated and will result in instant death. wfLocalUrl() and wfLocalUrlE()
will be killed shortly; they are still used in the language files.
