These functions existed to work around a bug (fixed in PHP 5.3) and
a missing feature (added in PHP 5.2) in older versions of PHP;
therefore, they are no longer necessary.
Change-Id: Ifebbe3d449fc57fd83f8350c28f467605c1a07b7
* Removed spaces around array index
* Removed double spaces or added spaces to begin or end of function
calls, method signature, conditions or foreachs
* Added braces to one-line ifs
* Changed multi line conditions to one line conditions
* Realigned some arrays
Change-Id: Ia04d2a99d663b07101013c2d53b3b2e872fd9cc3
instantiate a variable-length constructor in php 5.1.3 and up, and falls
back to the old, ugly, manual method that was in the old wfCreateObject
function. The instances in the core have been replaced.