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| author | Pierre Schmitz <pierre@archlinux.de> | 2011-12-03 13:29:22 +0100 |
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| committer | Pierre Schmitz <pierre@archlinux.de> | 2011-12-03 13:29:22 +0100 |
| commit | ca32f08966f1b51fcb19460f0996bb0c4048e6fe (patch) | |
| tree | ec04cc15b867bc21eedca904cea9af0254531a11 /docs/globals.txt | |
| parent | a22fbfc60f36f5f7ee10d5ae6fe347340c2ee67c (diff) | |
Update to MediaWiki 1.18.0
* also update ArchLinux skin to chagnes in MonoBook
* Use only css to hide our menu bar when printing
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/globals.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/globals.txt | 14 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/docs/globals.txt b/docs/globals.txt index 46486dd8..8b4c755b 100644 --- a/docs/globals.txt +++ b/docs/globals.txt @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ in a much more flexible way. Consider the elegance of: # Generate the article HTML as if viewed by a web request $article = new Article( Title::newFromText( $t ) ); $article->view(); - + versus # Save current globals @@ -29,13 +29,13 @@ Some of the current MediaWiki developers have an idle fantasy that some day, globals will be eliminated from MediaWiki entirely, replaced by an application object which would be passed to constructors. Whether that would be an efficient, convenient solution remains to be seen, but certainly PHP 5 makes -such object-oriented programming models easier than they were in previous +such object-oriented programming models easier than they were in previous versions. For the time being though, MediaWiki programmers will have to work in an environment with some global context. At the time of writing, 418 globals were -initialised on startup by MediaWiki. 304 of these were configuration settings, -which are documented in DefaultSettings.php. There is no comprehensive +initialised on startup by MediaWiki. 304 of these were configuration settings, +which are documented in DefaultSettings.php. There is no comprehensive documentation for the remaining 114 globals, however some of the most important ones are listed below. They are typically initialised either in index.php or in Setup.php. @@ -45,9 +45,6 @@ For a description of the classes, see design.txt. $wgTitle Title object created from the request URL. -$wgArticle - Article object corresponding to $wgTitle. - $wgOut OutputPage object for HTTP response. @@ -68,6 +65,3 @@ $wgRequest $wgMemc, $messageMemc, $parserMemc Object caches - -$wgMessageCache - Message cache, to manage interface messages |