Add additional parameter $altUserName to Linker::userLink to make it possible to...

Renamed $userText to $userName following Nikerabbit's advice.

diff --git a/includes/Linker.php b/includes/Linker.php
index e789113..d4fcb2f 100644 (file)
--- a/includes/Linker.php
+++ b/includes/Linker.php
@@ -918,16 +918,23 @@ class Linker {
        /**
         * Make user link (or user contributions for unregistered users)
         * @param $userId   Integer: user id in database.
-        * @param $userText String: user name in database
+        * @param $userName String: user name in database.
+        * @param $altUserName String: text to display instead of the user name (optional)
         * @return String: HTML fragment
+        * @since 1.19 Method exists for a long time. $displayText was added in 1.19.
         */
-       public static function userLink( $userId, $userText ) {
+       public static function userLink( $userId, $userName, $altUserName = false ) {
                if ( $userId == 0 ) {
-                       $page = SpecialPage::getTitleFor( 'Contributions', $userText );
+                       $page = SpecialPage::getTitleFor( 'Contributions', $userName );
                } else {
-                       $page = Title::makeTitle( NS_USER, $userText );
+                       $page = Title::makeTitle( NS_USER, $userName );
                }
-               return self::link( $page, htmlspecialchars( $userText ), array( 'class' => 'mw-userlink' ) );
+
+               return self::link(
+                       $page,
+                       htmlspecialchars( $altUserName !== false ? $altUserName : $userName ),
+                       array( 'class' => 'mw-userlink' )
+               );
        }
 
        /**