** 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
For compatibility with existing installations, a latin-1 proxy language
module can be activated by setting $wgUseLatin1 = true; which will convert
messages to Latin-1 and use the Latin-1 support code as necessary.
* 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
disabled via disable_functions in php.ini (bug #928168)
The PHPTal skin doesn't function unless the PEAR bits are in include_path,
so it's disabled if ini_set can't be used. If the files are manually placed
or a real PEAR installation is available with the right stuff, one can
use $wgUsePHPTal = true;
There are likely other things that need to be taken into account for
restricted environments. Maintenance scripts haven't been tweaked for
such an environment yet either.
available. Currently using for the message cache to avoid reading
every message separately. This now is only slightly slower than
memcached in my tests when $wgUseDatabaseMessages is enabled, so
it's a bit of a speedup for common hosts.
Can select no metadata, GNU FDL, or Creative Commons, which sends off
to the CC remote license engine to pick one.
Not fully tested. CC is returning the wrong icon URL except for public
domain right now. Going out to CC and back loses all other options from
the form.
* 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);
elimination of the use of import_request_variables (which gives us all
the insecurity of register_globals). Uncomment the define of DEBUG_GLOBALS
in index.php to turn on extra error reporting and trace down use of
uninitialized variables and nassssty globals.
Also rearranged the magic_quotes fixing, may not yet cover everything...
* Converted many instances of globals from the query to $_REQUEST
* Renamed near-useless Title::getURL() to Title::getPartialURL()
* Created new Title::getURL(), to replace wfLocalUrl, wfLocalUrlE, wfFullUrl and wfFullUrlE. Replaced most instances throughout the code
* In Parser.php, generalised stripping of <nowiki>, <pre> and <math> to allow more general use such as nesting
* Moved body of Article::preSaveTransform to Parser.php
* Put lots of comments in Title.php
* Misc. bugs fixed in DatabaseFunctions.php and Skin.php.
* install-utils, install and update utilise Database objects instead of handling their own connections
* schema change for RC improvement -- added rc_type, rc_moved_to_title and rc_moved_to_ns
