ability to dump messages to a file, not quite sure what to use it for yet

diff --git a/maintenance/dumpMessages.php b/maintenance/dumpMessages.php
new file mode 100644 (file)
index 0000000..dad2b31
--- /dev/null
+++ b/maintenance/dumpMessages.php
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+<?php
+include_once( "commandLine.inc" );
+
+$messages = array();
+foreach ( $wgAllMessagesEn as $key => $englishValue )
+{
+       $messages[$key] = wfMsg( $key );
+}
+
+if ( count( $argv ) >= 2 ) {
+       $res = fopen( $argv[2] );
+       fwrite( $res, serialize( $messages ) );
+} else {
+       print serialize( $messages );
+}
+
+?>