hooks.txt This document describes how event hooks work in MediaWiki; how to add hooks for an event; and how to run hooks for an event. ==Glossary== event Something that happens with the wiki. For example: a user logs in. A wiki page is saved. A wiki page is deleted. Often there are two events associated with a single action: one before the code is run to make the event happen, and one after. Each event has a name, preferably in CamelCase. For example, 'UserLogin', 'ArticleSave', 'ArticleSaveComplete', 'ArticleDelete'. hook A clump of code and data that should be run when an event happens. This can be either a function and a chunk of data, or an object and a method. hook function The function part of a hook. ==Rationale== Hooks allow us to decouple optionally-run code from code that is run for everyone. It allows MediaWiki hackers, third-party developers and local administrators to define code that will be run at certain points in the mainline code, and to modify the data run by that mainline code. Hooks can keep mainline code simple, and make it easier to write extensions. Hooks are a principled alternative to local patches. Consider, for example, two options in MediaWiki. One reverses the order of a title before displaying the article; the other converts the title to all uppercase letters. Currently, in MediaWiki code, we would handle this as follows (note: not real code, here): function showAnArticle($article) { global $wgReverseTitle, $wgCapitalizeTitle; if ($wgReverseTitle) { wfReverseTitle($article); } if ($wgCapitalizeTitle) { wfCapitalizeTitle($article); } # code to actually show the article goes here } An extension writer, or a local admin, will often add custom code to the function -- with or without a global variable. For example, someone wanting email notification when an article is shown may add: function showAnArticle($article) { global $wgReverseTitle, $wgCapitalizeTitle, $wgNotifyArticle; if ($wgReverseTitle) { wfReverseTitle($article); } if ($wgCapitalizeTitle) { wfCapitalizeTitle($article); } # code to actually show the article goes here if ($wgNotifyArticle) { wfNotifyArticleShow($article)); } } Using a hook-running strategy, we can avoid having all this option-specific stuff in our mainline code. Using hooks, the function becomes: function showAnArticle($article) { if (wfRunHooks('ArticleShow', array(&$article))) { # code to actually show the article goes here wfRunHooks('ArticleShowComplete', array(&$article)); } } We've cleaned up the code here by removing clumps of weird, infrequently used code and moving them off somewhere else. It's much easier for someone working with this code to see what's _really_ going on, and make changes or fix bugs. In addition, we can take all the code that deals with the little-used title-reversing options (say) and put it in one place. Instead of having little title-reversing if-blocks spread all over the codebase in showAnArticle, deleteAnArticle, exportArticle, etc., we can concentrate it all in an extension file: function reverseArticleTitle($article) { # ... } function reverseForExport($article) { # ... } The setup function for the extension just has to add its hook functions to the appropriate events: setupTitleReversingExtension() { global $wgHooks; $wgHooks['ArticleShow'][] = 'reverseArticleTitle'; $wgHooks['ArticleDelete'][] = 'reverseArticleTitle'; $wgHooks['ArticleExport'][] = 'reverseForExport'; } Having all this code related to the title-reversion option in one place means that it's easier to read and understand; you don't have to do a grep-find to see where the $wgReverseTitle variable is used, say. If the code is well enough isolated, it can even be excluded when not used -- making for some slight savings in memory and load-up performance at runtime. Admins who want to have all the reversed titles can add: require_once 'extensions/ReverseTitle.php'; ...to their LocalSettings.php file; those of us who don't want or need it can just leave it out. The extensions don't even have to be shipped with MediaWiki; they could be provided by a third-party developer or written by the admin him/herself. ==Writing hooks== A hook is a chunk of code run at some particular event. It consists of: * a function with some optional accompanying data, or * an object with a method and some optional accompanying data. Hooks are registered by adding them to the global $wgHooks array for a given event. All the following are valid ways to define hooks: $wgHooks['EventName'][] = 'someFunction'; # function, no data $wgHooks['EventName'][] = array('someFunction', $someData); $wgHooks['EventName'][] = array('someFunction'); # weird, but OK $wgHooks['EventName'][] = $object; # object only $wgHooks['EventName'][] = array($object, 'someMethod'); $wgHooks['EventName'][] = array($object, 'someMethod', $someData); $wgHooks['EventName'][] = array($object); # weird but OK When an event occurs, the function (or object method) will be called with the optional data provided as well as event-specific parameters. The above examples would result in the following code being executed when 'EventName' happened: # function, no data someFunction($param1, $param2) # function with data someFunction($someData, $param1, $param2) # object only $object->onEventName($param1, $param2) # object with method $object->someMethod($param1, $param2) # object with method and data $object->someMethod($someData, $param1, $param2) Note that when an object is the hook, and there's no specified method, the default method called is 'onEventName'. For different events this would be different: 'onArticleSave', 'onUserLogin', etc. The extra data is useful if we want to use the same function or object for different purposes. For example: $wgHooks['ArticleSaveComplete'][] = array('ircNotify', 'TimStarling'); $wgHooks['ArticleSaveComplete'][] = array('ircNotify', 'brion'); This code would result in ircNotify being run twice when an article is saved: once for 'TimStarling', and once for 'brion'. Hooks can return three possible values: * true: the hook has operated successfully * "some string": an error occurred; processing should stop and the error should be shown to the user * false: the hook has successfully done the work necessary and the calling function should skip The last result would be for cases where the hook function replaces the main functionality. For example, if you wanted to authenticate users to a custom system (LDAP, another PHP program, whatever), you could do: $wgHooks['UserLogin'][] = array('ldapLogin', $ldapServer); function ldapLogin($username, $password) { # log user into LDAP return false; } Returning false makes less sense for events where the action is complete, and will normally be ignored. Note that none of the examples made use of create_function() as a way to attach a function to a hook. This is known to cause problems (notably with Special:Version), and should be avoided when at all possible. ==Using hooks== A calling function or method uses the wfRunHooks() function to run the hooks related to a particular event, like so: class Article { # ... function protect() { global $wgUser; if (wfRunHooks('ArticleProtect', array(&$this, &$wgUser))) { # protect the article wfRunHooks('ArticleProtectComplete', array(&$this, &$wgUser)); } } } wfRunHooks() returns true if the calling function should continue processing (the hooks ran OK, or there are no hooks to run), or false if it shouldn't (an error occurred, or one of the hooks handled the action already). Checking the return value matters more for "before" hooks than for "complete" hooks. Note that hook parameters are passed in an array; this is a necessary inconvenience to make it possible to pass reference values (that can be changed) into the hook code. Also note that earlier versions of wfRunHooks took a variable number of arguments; the array() calling protocol came about after MediaWiki 1.4rc1. ==Events and parameters== This is a list of known events and parameters; please add to it if you're going to add events to the MediaWiki code. 'AbortAutoAccount': Return false to cancel automated local account creation, where normally authentication against an external auth plugin would be creating a local account. $user: the User object about to be created (read-only, incomplete) &$abortMsg: out parameter: name of error message to be displayed to user 'AbortAutoblock': Return false to cancel an autoblock. $autoblockip: The IP going to be autoblocked. $block: The block from which the autoblock is coming. 'AbortDiffCache': Can be used to cancel the caching of a diff. &$diffEngine: DifferenceEngine object 'AbortEmailNotification': Can be used to cancel email notifications for an edit. $editor: The User who made the change. $title: The Title of the page that was edited. $rc: The current RecentChange object. 'AbortLogin': Return false to cancel account login. $user: the User object being authenticated against $password: the password being submitted, not yet checked for validity &$retval: a LoginForm class constant to return from authenticateUserData(); default is LoginForm::ABORTED. Note that the client may be using a machine API rather than the HTML user interface. &$msg: the message identifier for abort reason (new in 1.18, not available before 1.18) 'AbortMove': Allows to abort moving an article (title). $old: old title $nt: new title $user: user who is doing the move $err: error message $reason: the reason for the move (added in 1.13) 'AbortNewAccount': Return false to cancel explicit account creation. $user: the User object about to be created (read-only, incomplete) &$msg: out parameter: HTML to display on abort &$status: out parameter: Status object to return, replaces the older $msg param (added in 1.23) Create the object with Status::newFatal() to ensure proper API error messages are returned when creating account through API clients. 'AbortTalkPageEmailNotification': Return false to cancel talk page email notification $targetUser: the user whom to send talk page email notification $title: the page title 'SendWatchlistEmailNotification': Return true to send watchlist email notification $targetUser: the user whom to send watchlist email notification $title: the page title $enotif: EmailNotification object 'AbortChangePassword': Return false to cancel password change. $user: the User object to which the password change is occuring $mOldpass: the old password provided by the user $newpass: the new password provided by the user &$abortMsg: the message identifier for abort reason 'ActionBeforeFormDisplay': Before executing the HTMLForm object. $name: name of the action &$form: HTMLForm object $article: Article object 'ActionModifyFormFields': Before creating an HTMLForm object for a page action; Allows to change the fields on the form that will be generated. $name: name of the action &$fields: HTMLForm descriptor array $article: Article object 'AddNewAccount': After a user account is created. $user: the User object that was created. (Parameter added in 1.7) $byEmail: true when account was created "by email" (added in 1.12) 'AddNewAccountApiForm': Allow modifying internal login form when creating an account via API. $apiModule: the ApiCreateAccount module calling $loginForm: the LoginForm used 'AddNewAccountApiResult': Modify API output when creating a new account via API. $apiModule: the ApiCreateAccount module calling $loginForm: the LoginForm used &$result: associative array for API result data 'AfterFinalPageOutput': Nearly at the end of OutputPage::output() but before OutputPage::sendCacheControl() and final ob_end_flush() which will send the buffered output to the client. This allows for last-minute modification of the output within the buffer by using ob_get_clean(). $output: The OutputPage object where output() was called 'AfterImportPage': When a page import is completed. $title: Title under which the revisions were imported $origTitle: Title provided by the XML file $revCount: Number of revisions in the XML file $sRevCount: Number of successfully imported revisions $pageInfo: associative array of page information 'AfterParserFetchFileAndTitle': After an image gallery is formed by Parser, just before adding its HTML to parser output. $parser: Parser object that called the hook $ig: Gallery, an object of one of the gallery classes (inheriting from ImageGalleryBase) $html: HTML generated by the gallery 'AlternateEdit': Before checking if a user can edit a page and before showing the edit form ( EditPage::edit() ). This is triggered on &action=edit. $editPage: the EditPage object 'AlternateEditPreview': Before generating the preview of the page when editing ( EditPage::getPreviewText() ). $editPage: the EditPage object &$content: the Content object for the text field from the edit page &$previewHTML: Text to be placed into the page for the preview &$parserOutput: the ParserOutput object for the preview return false and set $previewHTML and $parserOutput to output custom page preview HTML. 'AlternateUserMailer': Called before mail is sent so that mail could be logged (or something else) instead of using PEAR or PHP's mail(). Return false to skip the regular method of sending mail. Return a string to return a php-mail-error message containing the error. Returning true will continue with sending email in the regular way. $headers: Associative array of headers for the email $to: MailAddress object or array $from: From address $subject: Subject of the email $body: Body of the message 'APIAfterExecute': After calling the execute() method of an API module. Use this to extend core API modules. &$module: Module object 'ApiBeforeMain': Before calling ApiMain's execute() method in api.php. &$main: ApiMain object 'ApiCheckCanExecute': Called during ApiMain::checkCanExecute. Use to further authenticate and authorize API clients before executing the module. Return false and set a message to cancel the request. $module: Module object $user: Current user &$message: API usage message to die with, as a message key or array as accepted by ApiBase::dieUsageMsg. 'APIEditBeforeSave': Before saving a page with api.php?action=edit, after processing request parameters. Return false to let the request fail, returning an error message or an tag if $resultArr was filled. $editPage : the EditPage object $text : the new text of the article (has yet to be saved) &$resultArr : data in this array will be added to the API result 'APIGetAllowedParams': Use this hook to modify a module's parameters. &$module: ApiBase Module object &$params: Array of parameters $flags: int zero or OR-ed flags like ApiBase::GET_VALUES_FOR_HELP 'APIGetDescription': Use this hook to modify a module's description. &$module: ApiBase Module object &$desc: Array of descriptions 'APIGetParamDescription': Use this hook to modify a module's parameter descriptions. &$module: ApiBase Module object &$desc: Array of parameter descriptions 'APIGetResultProperties': Use this hook to modify the properties in a module's result. &$module: ApiBase Module object &$properties: Array of properties 'APIGetPossibleErrors': Use this hook to modify the module's list of possible errors. $module: ApiBase Module object &$possibleErrors: Array of possible errors 'APIQueryAfterExecute': After calling the execute() method of an action=query submodule. Use this to extend core API modules. &$module: Module object 'APIQueryGeneratorAfterExecute': After calling the executeGenerator() method of an action=query submodule. Use this to extend core API modules. &$module: Module object &$resultPageSet: ApiPageSet object 'APIQueryInfoTokens': Use this hook to add custom tokens to prop=info. Every token has an action, which will be used in the intoken parameter and in the output (actiontoken="..."), and a callback function which should return the token, or false if the user isn't allowed to obtain it. The prototype of the callback function is func($pageid, $title), where $pageid is the page ID of the page the token is requested for and $title is the associated Title object. In the hook, just add your callback to the $tokenFunctions array and return true (returning false makes no sense). $tokenFunctions: array(action => callback) 'APIQueryRevisionsTokens': Use this hook to add custom tokens to prop=revisions. Every token has an action, which will be used in the rvtoken parameter and in the output (actiontoken="..."), and a callback function which should return the token, or false if the user isn't allowed to obtain it. The prototype of the callback function is func($pageid, $title, $rev), where $pageid is the page ID of the page associated to the revision the token is requested for, $title the associated Title object and $rev the associated Revision object. In the hook, just add your callback to the $tokenFunctions array and return true (returning false makes no sense). $tokenFunctions: array(action => callback) 'APIQueryRecentChangesTokens': Use this hook to add custom tokens to list=recentchanges. Every token has an action, which will be used in the rctoken parameter and in the output (actiontoken="..."), and a callback function which should return the token, or false if the user isn't allowed to obtain it. The prototype of the callback function is func($pageid, $title, $rc), where $pageid is the page ID of the page associated to the revision the token is requested for, $title the associated Title object and $rc the associated RecentChange object. In the hook, just add your callback to the $tokenFunctions array and return true (returning false makes no sense). $tokenFunctions: array(action => callback) 'APIQuerySiteInfoGeneralInfo': Use this hook to add extra information to the sites general information. $module: the current ApiQuerySiteInfo module &$results: array of results, add things here 'APIQuerySiteInfoStatisticsInfo': Use this hook to add extra information to the sites statistics information. &$results: array of results, add things here 'APIQueryUsersTokens': Use this hook to add custom token to list=users. Every token has an action, which will be used in the ustoken parameter and in the output (actiontoken="..."), and a callback function which should return the token, or false if the user isn't allowed to obtain it. The prototype of the callback function is func($user) where $user is the User object. In the hook, just add your callback to the $tokenFunctions array and return true (returning false makes no sense). $tokenFunctions: array(action => callback) 'ApiMain::onException': Called by ApiMain::executeActionWithErrorHandling() when an exception is thrown during API action execution. $apiMain: Calling ApiMain instance. $e: Exception object. 'ApiRsdServiceApis': Add or remove APIs from the RSD services list. Each service should have its own entry in the $apis array and have a unique name, passed as key for the array that represents the service data. In this data array, the key-value-pair identified by the apiLink key is required. &$apis: array of services 'ApiTokensGetTokenTypes': Use this hook to extend action=tokens with new token types. &$tokenTypes: supported token types in format 'type' => callback function used to retrieve this type of tokens. 'Article::MissingArticleConditions': Before fetching deletion & move log entries to display a message of a non-existing page being deleted/moved, give extensions a chance to hide their (unrelated) log entries. &$conds: Array of query conditions (all of which have to be met; conditions will AND in the final query) $logTypes: Array of log types being queried 'ArticleAfterFetchContent': After fetching content of an article from the database. DEPRECATED, use ArticleAfterFetchContentObject instead. $article: the article (object) being loaded from the database &$content: the content (string) of the article 'ArticleAfterFetchContentObject': After fetching content of an article from the database. $article: the article (object) being loaded from the database &$content: the content of the article, as a Content object 'ArticleConfirmDelete': Before writing the confirmation form for article deletion. $article: the article (object) being deleted $output: the OutputPage object &$reason: the reason (string) the article is being deleted 'ArticleContentOnDiff': Before showing the article content below a diff. Use this to change the content in this area or how it is loaded. $diffEngine: the DifferenceEngine $output: the OutputPage object 'ArticleDelete': Before an article is deleted. $wikiPage: the WikiPage (object) being deleted $user: the user (object) deleting the article $reason: the reason (string) the article is being deleted $error: if the deletion was prohibited, the (raw HTML) error message to display (added in 1.13) $status: Status object, modify this to throw an error. Overridden by $error (added in 1.20) 'ArticleDeleteComplete': After an article is deleted. $wikiPage: the WikiPage that was deleted $user: the user that deleted the article $reason: the reason the article was deleted $id: id of the article that was deleted $content: the Content of the deleted page $logEntry: the ManualLogEntry used to record the deletion 'ArticleEditUpdateNewTalk': Before updating user_newtalk when a user talk page was changed. &$wikiPage: WikiPage (object) of the user talk page $recipient: User (object) who's talk page was edited 'ArticleEditUpdates': When edit updates (mainly link tracking) are made when an article has been changed. $wikiPage: the WikiPage (object) $editInfo: data holder that includes the parser output ($editInfo->output) for that page after the change $changed: bool for if the page was changed 'ArticleEditUpdatesDeleteFromRecentchanges': Before deleting old entries from recentchanges table, return false to not delete old entries. $wikiPage: WikiPage (object) being modified 'ArticleFromTitle': when creating an article object from a title object using Wiki::articleFromTitle(). $title: Title (object) used to create the article object $article: Article (object) that will be returned $context: IContextSource (object) 'ArticleInsertComplete': After a new article is created. DEPRECATED, use PageContentInsertComplete. $wikiPage: WikiPage created $user: User creating the article $text: New content $summary: Edit summary/comment $isMinor: Whether or not the edit was marked as minor $isWatch: (No longer used) $section: (No longer used) $flags: Flags passed to WikiPage::doEditContent() $revision: New Revision of the article 'ArticleMergeComplete': After merging to article using Special:Mergehistory. $targetTitle: target title (object) $destTitle: destination title (object) 'ArticlePageDataAfter': After loading data of an article from the database. $wikiPage: WikiPage (object) whose data were loaded $row: row (object) returned from the database server 'ArticlePageDataBefore': Before loading data of an article from the database. $wikiPage: WikiPage (object) that data will be loaded $fields: fields (array) to load from the database 'ArticlePrepareTextForEdit': Called when preparing text to be saved. $wikiPage: the WikiPage being saved $popts: parser options to be used for pre-save transformation 'ArticleProtect': Before an article is protected. $wikiPage: the WikiPage being protected $user: the user doing the protection $protect: boolean whether this is a protect or an unprotect $reason: Reason for protect $moveonly: boolean whether this is for move only or not 'ArticleProtectComplete': After an article is protected. $wikiPage: the WikiPage that was protected $user: the user who did the protection $protect: boolean whether it was a protect or an unprotect $reason: Reason for protect $moveonly: boolean whether it was for move only or not 'ArticlePurge': Before executing "&action=purge". $wikiPage: WikiPage (object) to purge 'ArticleRevisionVisibilitySet': Called when changing visibility of one or more revisions of an article. &$title: Title object of the article 'ArticleRevisionUndeleted': After an article revision is restored. $title: the article title $revision: the revision $oldPageID: the page ID of the revision when archived (may be null) 'ArticleRollbackComplete': After an article rollback is completed. $wikiPage: the WikiPage that was edited $user: the user who did the rollback $revision: the revision the page was reverted back to $current: the reverted revision 'ArticleSave': Before an article is saved. DEPRECATED, use PageContentSave instead. $wikiPage: the WikiPage (object) being saved $user: the user (object) saving the article $text: the new article text $summary: the article summary (comment) $isminor: minor flag $iswatch: watch flag $section: section # 'ArticleSaveComplete': After an article has been updated. DEPRECATED, use PageContentSaveComplete instead. $wikiPage: WikiPage modified $user: User performing the modification $text: New content $summary: Edit summary/comment $isMinor: Whether or not the edit was marked as minor $isWatch: (No longer used) $section: (No longer used) $flags: Flags passed to WikiPage::doEditContent() $revision: New Revision of the article $status: Status object about to be returned by doEditContent() $baseRevId: the rev ID (or false) this edit was based on 'ArticleUndelete': When one or more revisions of an article are restored. $title: Title corresponding to the article restored $create: Whether or not the restoration caused the page to be created (i.e. it didn't exist before). $comment: The comment associated with the undeletion. $oldPageId: ID of page previously deleted (from archive table) 'ArticleUndeleteLogEntry': When a log entry is generated but not yet saved. $pageArchive: the PageArchive object &$logEntry: ManualLogEntry object $user: User who is performing the log action 'ArticleUpdateBeforeRedirect': After a page is updated (usually on save), before the user is redirected back to the page. &$article: the article &$sectionanchor: The section anchor link (e.g. "#overview" ) &$extraq: Extra query parameters which can be added via hooked functions 'ArticleViewFooter': After showing the footer section of an ordinary page view $article: Article object $patrolFooterShown: boolean whether patrol footer is shown 'ArticleViewHeader': Before the parser cache is about to be tried for article viewing. &$article: the article &$pcache: whether to try the parser cache or not &$outputDone: whether the output for this page finished or not. Set to a ParserOutput object to both indicate that the output is done and what parser output was used. 'ArticleViewRedirect': Before setting "Redirected from ..." subtitle when a redirect was followed. $article: target article (object) 'ArticleViewCustom': Allows to output the text of the article in a different format than wikitext. DEPRECATED, use ArticleContentViewCustom instead. Note that it is preferable to implement proper handing for a custom data type using the ContentHandler facility. $text: text of the page $title: title of the page $output: reference to $wgOut 'ArticleContentViewCustom': Allows to output the text of the article in a different format than wikitext. Note that it is preferable to implement proper handing for a custom data type using the ContentHandler facility. $content: content of the page, as a Content object $title: title of the page $output: reference to $wgOut 'AuthPluginAutoCreate': Called when creating a local account for an user logged in from an external authentication method. $user: User object created locally 'AuthPluginSetup': Update or replace authentication plugin object ($wgAuth). Gives a chance for an extension to set it programmatically to a variable class. &$auth: the $wgAuth object, probably a stub 'AutopromoteCondition': Check autopromote condition for user. $type: condition type $args: arguments $user: user $result: result of checking autopromote condition 'BacklinkCacheGetPrefix': Allows to set prefix for a specific link table. $table: table name &$prefix: prefix 'BacklinkCacheGetConditions': Allows to set conditions for query when links to certain title are fetched. $table: table name $title: title of the page to which backlinks are sought &$conds: query conditions 'BadImage': When checking against the bad image list. Change $bad and return false to override. If an image is "bad", it is not rendered inline in wiki pages or galleries in category pages. $name: Image name being checked &$bad: Whether or not the image is "bad" 'BaseTemplateAfterPortlet': After output of portlets, allow injecting custom HTML after the section. Any uses of the hook need to handle escaping. $template BaseTemplate $portlet: string portlet name &$html: string 'BeforeDisplayNoArticleText': Before displaying message key "noarticletext" or "noarticletext-nopermission" at Article::showMissingArticle(). $article: article object 'BeforeInitialize': Before anything is initialized in MediaWiki::performRequest(). &$title: Title being used for request $unused: null &$output: OutputPage object &$user: User $request: WebRequest object $mediaWiki: Mediawiki object 'BeforePageDisplay': Prior to outputting a page. &$out: OutputPage object &$skin: Skin object 'BeforeHttpsRedirect': Prior to forcing HTTP->HTTPS redirect. Gives a chance to override how the redirect is output by modifying, or by returning false, and letting standard HTTP rendering take place. ATTENTION: This hook is likely to be removed soon due to overall design of the system. $context: IContextSource object &$redirect: string URL, modifiable 'BeforePageRedirect': Prior to sending an HTTP redirect. Gives a chance to override how the redirect is output by modifying, or by returning false and taking over the output. $out: OutputPage object &$redirect: URL, modifiable &$code: HTTP code (eg '301' or '302'), modifiable 'BeforeParserFetchFileAndTitle': Before an image is rendered by Parser. $parser: Parser object $nt: the image title &$options: array of options to RepoGroup::findFile &$descQuery: query string to add to thumbnail URL FIXME: Where does the below sentence fit in? If 'broken' is a key in $options then the file will appear as a broken thumbnail. 'BeforeParserFetchTemplateAndtitle': Before a template is fetched by Parser. $parser: Parser object $title: title of the template &$skip: skip this template and link it? &$id: the id of the revision being parsed 'BeforeParserrenderImageGallery': Before an image gallery is rendered by Parser. &$parser: Parser object &$ig: ImageGallery object 'BeforeWelcomeCreation': Before the welcomecreation message is displayed to a newly created user. &$welcome_creation_msg: MediaWiki message name to display on the welcome screen to a newly created user account. &$injected_html: Any HTML to inject after the "logged in" message of a newly created user account 'BitmapHandlerTransform': before a file is transformed, gives extension the possibility to transform it themselves $handler: BitmapHandler $image: File &$scalerParams: Array with scaler parameters &$mto: null, set to a MediaTransformOutput 'BitmapHandlerCheckImageArea': By BitmapHandler::normaliseParams, after all normalizations have been performed, except for the $wgMaxImageArea check. $image: File &$params: Array of parameters &$checkImageAreaHookResult: null, set to true or false to override the $wgMaxImageArea check result. 'PerformRetroactiveAutoblock': Called before a retroactive autoblock is applied to a user. $block: Block object (which is set to be autoblocking) &$blockIds: Array of block IDs of the autoblock 'BlockIp': Before an IP address or user is blocked. $block: the Block object about to be saved $user: the user _doing_ the block (not the one being blocked) &$reason: if the hook is aborted, the error message to be returned in an array 'BlockIpComplete': After an IP address or user is blocked. $block: the Block object that was saved $user: the user who did the block (not the one being blocked) 'BookInformation': Before information output on Special:Booksources. $isbn: ISBN to show information for $output: OutputPage object in use 'CanIPUseHTTPS': Determine whether the client at a given source IP is likely to be able to access the wiki via HTTPS. $ip: The IP address in human-readable form &$canDo: This reference should be set to false if the client may not be able to use HTTPS 'CanonicalNamespaces': For extensions adding their own namespaces or altering the defaults. Note that if you need to specify namespace protection or content model for a namespace that is added in a CanonicalNamespaces hook handler, you should do so by altering $wgNamespaceProtection and $wgNamespaceContentModels outside the handler, in top-level scope. The point at which the CanonicalNamespaces hook fires is too late for altering these variables. This applies even if the namespace addition is conditional; it is permissible to declare a content model and protection for a namespace and then decline to actually register it. &$namespaces: Array of namespace numbers with corresponding canonical names 'CategoryAfterPageAdded': After a page is added to a category. $category: Category that page was added to $wikiPage: WikiPage that was added 'CategoryAfterPageRemoved': After a page is removed from a category. $category: Category that page was removed from $wikiPage: WikiPage that was removed 'CategoryPageView': Before viewing a categorypage in CategoryPage::view. $catpage: CategoryPage instance 'ChangePasswordForm': For extensions that need to add a field to the ChangePassword form via the Preferences form. &$extraFields: An array of arrays that hold fields like would be passed to the pretty function. 'ChangesListInsertArticleLink': Override or augment link to article in RC list. &$changesList: ChangesList instance. &$articlelink: HTML of link to article (already filled-in). &$s: HTML of row that is being constructed. &$rc: RecentChange instance. $unpatrolled: Whether or not we are showing unpatrolled changes. $watched: Whether or not the change is watched by the user. 'ChangesListInitRows': Batch process change list rows prior to rendering. $changesList: ChangesList instance $rows: The data that will be rendered. May be a ResultWrapper instance or an array. 'ChangesListSpecialPageFilters': Called after building form options on pages inheriting from ChangesListSpecialPage (in core: RecentChanges, RecentChangesLinked and Watchlist). $special: ChangesListSpecialPage instance &$filters: associative array of filter definitions. The keys are the HTML name/URL parameters. Each key maps to an associative array with a 'msg' (message key) and a 'default' value. 'ChangesListSpecialPageQuery': Called when building SQL query on pages inheriting from ChangesListSpecialPage (in core: RecentChanges, RecentChangesLinked and Watchlist). $name: name of the special page, e.g. 'Watchlist' &$tables: array of tables to be queried &$fields: array of columns to select &$conds: array of WHERE conditionals for query &$query_options: array of options for the database request &$join_conds: join conditions for the tables $opts: FormOptions for this request 'Collation::factory': Called if $wgCategoryCollation is an unknown collation. $collationName: Name of the collation in question &$collationObject: Null. Replace with a subclass of the Collation class that implements the collation given in $collationName. 'ConfirmEmailComplete': Called after a user's email has been confirmed successfully. $user: user (object) whose email is being confirmed 'ContentHandlerDefaultModelFor': Called when the default content model is determined for a given title. May be used to assign a different model for that title. $title: the Title in question &$model: the model name. Use with CONTENT_MODEL_XXX constants. 'ContentHandlerForModelID': Called when a ContentHandler is requested for a given content model name, but no entry for that model exists in $wgContentHandlers. $modeName: the requested content model name &$handler: set this to a ContentHandler object, if desired. 'ContentModelCanBeUsedOn': Called to determine whether that content model can be used on a given page. This is especially useful to prevent some content models to be used in some special location. $contentModel: ID of the content model in question $title: the Title in question. &$ok: Output parameter, whether it is OK to use $contentModel on $title. Handler functions that modify $ok should generally return false to prevent further hooks from further modifying $ok. 'ContentGetParserOutput': Customize parser output for a given content object, called by AbstractContent::getParserOutput. May be used to override the normal model-specific rendering of page content. $content: The Content to render $title: Title of the page, as context $revId: The revision ID, as context $options: ParserOptions for rendering. To avoid confusing the parser cache, the output can only depend on parameters provided to this hook function, not on global state. $generateHtml: boolean, indicating whether full HTML should be generated. If false, generation of HTML may be skipped, but other information should still be present in the ParserOutput object. &$output: ParserOutput, to manipulate or replace 'ConvertContent': Called by AbstractContent::convert when a conversion to another content model is requested. $content: The Content object to be converted. $toModel: The ID of the content model to convert to. $lossy: boolean indicating whether lossy conversion is allowed. &$result: Output parameter, in case the handler function wants to provide a converted Content object. Note that $result->getContentModel() must return $toModel. Handler functions that modify $result should generally return false to further attempts at conversion. 'ContribsPager::getQueryInfo': Before the contributions query is about to run &$pager: Pager object for contributions &$queryInfo: The query for the contribs Pager 'ContribsPager::reallyDoQuery': Called before really executing the query for My Contributions &$data: an array of results of all contribs queries $pager: The ContribsPager object hooked into $offset: Index offset, inclusive $limit: Exact query limit $descending: Query direction, false for ascending, true for descending 'ContributionsLineEnding': Called before a contributions HTML line is finished $page: SpecialPage object for contributions &$ret: the HTML line $row: the DB row for this line &$classes: the classes to add to the surrounding
  • 'ContributionsToolLinks': Change tool links above Special:Contributions $id: User identifier $title: User page title &$tools: Array of tool links 'CustomEditor': When invoking the page editor $article: Article being edited $user: User performing the edit Return true to allow the normal editor to be used, or false if implementing a custom editor, e.g. for a special namespace, etc. 'DatabaseOraclePostInit': Called after initialising an Oracle database &$db: the DatabaseOracle object 'NewDifferenceEngine': Called when a new DifferenceEngine object is made $title: the diff page title (nullable) &$oldId: the actual old Id to use in the diff &$newId: the actual new Id to use in the diff (0 means current) $old: the ?old= param value from the url $new: the ?new= param value from the url 'DiffRevisionTools': Override or extend the revision tools available from the diff view, i.e. undo, etc. $newRev: Revision object of the "new" revision &$links: Array of HTML links $oldRev: Revision object of the "old" revision (may be null) 'DiffViewHeader': Called before diff display $diff: DifferenceEngine object that's calling $oldRev: Revision object of the "old" revision (may be null/invalid) $newRev: Revision object of the "new" revision 'DisplayOldSubtitle': before creating subtitle when browsing old versions of an article $article: article (object) being viewed $oldid: oldid (int) being viewed 'DoEditSectionLink': Override the HTML generated for section edit links $skin: Skin object rendering the UI $title: Title object for the title being linked to (may not be the same as the page title, if the section is included from a template) $section: The designation of the section being pointed to, to be included in the link, like "§ion=$section" $tooltip: The default tooltip. Escape before using. By default, this is wrapped in the 'editsectionhint' message. &$result: The HTML to return, prefilled with the default plus whatever other changes earlier hooks have made $lang: The language code to use for the link in the wfMessage function 'EditFilter': Perform checks on an edit $editor: EditPage instance (object). The edit form (see includes/EditPage.php) $text: Contents of the edit box $section: Section being edited &$error: Error message to return $summary: Edit summary for page 'EditFilterMerged': Post-section-merge edit filter. DEPRECATED, use EditFilterMergedContent instead. $editor: EditPage instance (object) $text: content of the edit box &$error: error message to return $summary: Edit summary for page 'EditFilterMergedContent': Post-section-merge edit filter. This may be triggered by the EditPage or any other facility that modifies page content. Use the $status object to indicate whether the edit should be allowed, and to provide a reason for disallowing it. Return false to abort the edit, and true to continue. Returning true if $status->isOK() returns false means "don't save but continue user interaction", e.g. show the edit form. $context: object implementing the IContextSource interface. $content: content of the edit box, as a Content object. $status: Status object to represent errors, etc. $summary: Edit summary for page $user: the User object representing the user whois performing the edit. $minoredit: whether the edit was marked as minor by the user. 'EditFormPreloadText': Allows population of the edit form when creating new pages &$text: Text to preload with &$title: Title object representing the page being created 'EditFormInitialText': Allows modifying the edit form when editing existing pages $editPage: EditPage object 'EditPage::attemptSave': Called before an article is saved, that is before WikiPage::doEditContent() is called $editpage_Obj: the current EditPage object 'EditPage::importFormData': allow extensions to read additional data posted in the form $editpage: EditPage instance $request: Webrequest return value is ignored (should always return true) 'EditPage::showEditForm:fields': allows injection of form field into edit form $editor: the EditPage instance for reference $out: an OutputPage instance to write to return value is ignored (should always return true) 'EditPage::showEditForm:initial': before showing the edit form $editor: EditPage instance (object) $out: an OutputPage instance to write to Return false to halt editing; you'll need to handle error messages, etc. yourself. Alternatively, modifying $error and returning true will cause the contents of $error to be echoed at the top of the edit form as wikitext. Return true without altering $error to allow the edit to proceed. 'EditPage::showReadOnlyForm:initial': similar to EditPage::showEditForm:initial but for the read-only 'view source' variant of the edit form. $editor: EditPage instance (object) &$out: an OutputPage instance to write to return value is ignored (should always return true) 'EditPage::showStandardInputs:options': allows injection of form fields into the editOptions area $editor: EditPage instance (object) $out: an OutputPage instance to write to &$tabindex: HTML tabindex of the last edit check/button return value is ignored (should always be true) 'EditPageBeforeConflictDiff': allows modifying the EditPage object and output when there's an edit conflict. Return false to halt normal diff output; in this case you're responsible for computing and outputting the entire "conflict" part, i.e., the "difference between revisions" and "your text" headers and sections. &$editor: EditPage instance &$out: OutputPage instance 'EditPageBeforeEditButtons': Allows modifying the edit buttons below the textarea in the edit form. &$editpage: The current EditPage object &$buttons: Array of edit buttons "Save", "Preview", "Live", and "Diff" &$tabindex: HTML tabindex of the last edit check/button 'EditPageBeforeEditChecks': Allows modifying the edit checks below the textarea in the edit form. &$editpage: The current EditPage object &$checks: Array of edit checks like "watch this page"/"minor edit" &$tabindex: HTML tabindex of the last edit check/button 'EditPageBeforeEditToolbar': Allows modifying the edit toolbar above the textarea in the edit form. &$toolbar: The toolbar HTMl 'EditPageCopyrightWarning': Allow for site and per-namespace customization of contribution/copyright notice. $title: title of page being edited &$msg: localization message name, overridable. Default is either 'copyrightwarning' or 'copyrightwarning2'. 'EditPageGetDiffText': DEPRECATED. Use EditPageGetDiffContent instead. Allow modifying the wikitext that will be used in "Show changes". Note that it is preferable to implement diff handling for different data types using the ContentHandler facility. $editPage: EditPage object &$newtext: wikitext that will be used as "your version" 'EditPageGetDiffContent': Allow modifying the wikitext that will be used in "Show changes". Note that it is preferable to implement diff handling for different data types using the ContentHandler facility. $editPage: EditPage object &$newtext: wikitext that will be used as "your version" 'EditPageGetPreviewText': DEPRECATED. Use EditPageGetPreviewContent instead. Allow modifying the wikitext that will be previewed. Note that it is preferable to implement previews for different data types using the ContentHandler facility. $editPage: EditPage object &$toparse: wikitext that will be parsed 'EditPageGetPreviewContent': Allow modifying the wikitext that will be previewed. Note that it is preferable to implement previews for different data types using the ContentHandler facility. $editPage: EditPage object &$content: Content object to be previewed (may be replaced by hook function) 'EditPageNoSuchSection': When a section edit request is given for an non-existent section &$editpage: The current EditPage object &$res: the HTML of the error text 'EditPageTosSummary': Give a chance for site and per-namespace customizations of terms of service summary link that might exist separately from the copyright notice. $title: title of page being edited &$msg: localization message name, overridable. Default is 'editpage-tos-summary' 'EmailConfirmed': When checking that the user's email address is "confirmed". $user: User being checked $confirmed: Whether or not the email address is confirmed This runs before the other checks, such as anonymity and the real check; return true to allow those checks to occur, and false if checking is done. 'EmailUser': Before sending email from one user to another. $to: address of receiving user $from: address of sending user $subject: subject of the mail $text: text of the mail 'EmailUserCC': Before sending the copy of the email to the author. $to: address of receiving user $from: address of sending user $subject: subject of the mail $text: text of the mail 'EmailUserComplete': After sending email from one user to another. $to: address of receiving user $from: address of sending user $subject: subject of the mail $text: text of the mail 'EmailUserForm': After building the email user form object. $form: HTMLForm object 'EmailUserPermissionsErrors': to retrieve permissions errors for emailing a user. $user: The user who is trying to email another user. $editToken: The user's edit token. &$hookErr: Out-param for the error. Passed as the parameters to OutputPage::showErrorPage. 'ExemptFromAccountCreationThrottle': Exemption from the account creation throttle. $ip: The ip address of the user 'ExtensionTypes': Called when generating the extensions credits, use this to change the tables headers. &$extTypes: associative array of extensions types 'ExtractThumbParameters': Called when extracting thumbnail parameters from a thumbnail file name. DEPRECATED: Media handler should override MediaHandler::parseParamString instead. $thumbname: the base name of the thumbnail file &$params: the currently extracted params (has source name, temp or archived zone) 'FetchChangesList': When fetching the ChangesList derivative for a particular user. $user: User the list is being fetched for &$skin: Skin object to be used with the list &$list: List object (defaults to NULL, change it to an object instance and return false override the list derivative used) 'FileDeleteComplete': When a file is deleted. $file: reference to the deleted file $oldimage: in case of the deletion of an old image, the name of the old file $article: in case all revisions of the file are deleted a reference to the WikiFilePage associated with the file. $user: user who performed the deletion $reason: reason 'FileTransformed': When a file is transformed and moved into storage. $file: reference to the File object $thumb: the MediaTransformOutput object $tmpThumbPath: The temporary file system path of the transformed file $thumbPath: The permanent storage path of the transformed file 'FileUpload': When a file upload occurs. $file : Image object representing the file that was uploaded $reupload : Boolean indicating if there was a previously another image there or not (since 1.17) $hasDescription : Boolean indicating that there was already a description page and a new one from the comment wasn't created (since 1.17) 'FileUndeleteComplete': When a file is undeleted $title: title object to the file $fileVersions: array of undeleted versions. Empty if all versions were restored $user: user who performed the undeletion $reason: reason 'FormatAutocomments': When an autocomment is formatted by the Linker. &$comment: Reference to the accumulated comment. Initially null, when set the default code will be skipped. $pre: Initial part of the parsed comment before the call to the hook. $auto: The extracted part of the parsed comment before the call to the hook. $post: The final part of the parsed comment before the call to the hook. $title: An optional title object used to links to sections. Can be null. $local: Boolean indicating whether section links should refer to local page. 'GalleryGetModes': Get list of classes that can render different modes of a gallery $modeArray: An associative array mapping mode names to classes that implement that mode. It is expected all registered classes are a subclass of ImageGalleryBase. 'GetAutoPromoteGroups': When determining which autopromote groups a user is entitled to be in. &$user: user to promote. &$promote: groups that will be added. 'GetBlockedStatus': after loading blocking status of an user from the database $user: user (object) being checked 'GetCacheVaryCookies': Get cookies that should vary cache options. $out: OutputPage object &$cookies: array of cookies name, add a value to it if you want to add a cookie that have to vary cache options 'GetCanonicalURL': Modify fully-qualified URLs used for IRC and e-mail notifications. $title: Title object of page $url: string value as output (out parameter, can modify) $query: query options passed to Title::getCanonicalURL() 'GetDefaultSortkey': Override the default sortkey for a page. $title: Title object that we need to get a sortkey for &$sortkey: Sortkey to use. 'GetDoubleUnderscoreIDs': Modify the list of behavior switch (double underscore) magic words. Called by MagicWord. &$doubleUnderscoreIDs: array of strings 'GetExtendedMetadata': Get extended file metadata for the API &$combinedMeta: Array of the form: 'MetadataPropName' => array( 'value' => prop value, 'source' => 'name of hook' ). $file: File object of file in question $context: RequestContext (including language to use) $single: Only extract the current language; if false, the prop value should be in the metadata multi-language array format: mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:File_metadata_handling#Multi-language_array_format &$maxCacheTime: how long the results can be cached 'GetFullURL': Modify fully-qualified URLs used in redirects/export/offsite data. $title: Title object of page $url: string value as output (out parameter, can modify) $query: query options passed to Title::getFullURL() 'GetHumanTimestamp': Pre-emptively override the human-readable timestamp generated by MWTimestamp::getHumanTimestamp(). Return false in this hook to use the custom output. &$output: string for the output timestamp $timestamp: MWTimestamp object of the current (user-adjusted) timestamp $relativeTo: MWTimestamp object of the relative (user-adjusted) timestamp $user: User whose preferences are being used to make timestamp $lang: Language that will be used to render the timestamp 'GetInternalURL': Modify fully-qualified URLs used for squid cache purging. $title: Title object of page $url: string value as output (out parameter, can modify) $query: query options passed to Title::getInternalURL() 'GetIP': modify the ip of the current user (called only once). &$ip: string holding the ip as determined so far 'GetLinkColours': modify the CSS class of an array of page links. $linkcolour_ids: array of prefixed DB keys of the pages linked to, indexed by page_id. &$colours: (output) array of CSS classes, indexed by prefixed DB keys 'GetLocalURL': Modify local URLs as output into page links. Note that if you are working with internal urls (non-interwiki) then it may be preferable to work with the GetLocalURL::Internal or GetLocalURL::Article hooks as GetLocalURL can be buggy for internal urls on render if you do not re-implement the horrible hack that Title::getLocalURL uses in your own extension. $title: Title object of page &$url: string value as output (out parameter, can modify) $query: query options passed to Title::getLocalURL() 'GetLocalURL::Internal': Modify local URLs to internal pages. $title: Title object of page &$url: string value as output (out parameter, can modify) $query: query options passed to Title::getLocalURL() 'GetLocalURL::Article': Modify local URLs specifically pointing to article paths without any fancy queries or variants. $title: Title object of page &$url: string value as output (out parameter, can modify) 'GetLogTypesOnUser': Add log types where the target is a userpage &$types: Array of log types 'GetMetadataVersion': Modify the image metadata version currently in use. This is used when requesting image metadata from a ForeignApiRepo. Media handlers that need to have versioned metadata should add an element to the end of the version array of the form 'handler_name=version'. Most media handlers won't need to do this unless they broke backwards compatibility with a previous version of the media handler metadata output. &$version: Array of version strings 'GetNewMessagesAlert': Disable or modify the new messages alert &$newMessagesAlert: An empty string by default. If the user has new talk page messages, this should be populated with an alert message to that effect $newtalks: An empty array if the user has no new messages or an array containing links and revisions if there are new messages (See User::getNewMessageLinks) $user: The user object of the user who is loading the page $out: OutputPage object (to check what type of page the user is on) 'GetPreferences': Modify user preferences. $user: User whose preferences are being modified. &$preferences: Preferences description array, to be fed to an HTMLForm object 'GetRelativeTimestamp': Pre-emptively override the relative timestamp generated by MWTimestamp::getRelativeTimestamp(). Return false in this hook to use the custom output. &$output: string for the output timestamp &$diff: DateInterval representing the difference between the timestamps $timestamp: MWTimestamp object of the current (user-adjusted) timestamp $relativeTo: MWTimestamp object of the relative (user-adjusted) timestamp $user: User whose preferences are being used to make timestamp $lang: Language that will be used to render the timestamp 'getUserPermissionsErrors': Add a permissions error when permissions errors are checked for. Use instead of userCan for most cases. Return false if the user can't do it, and populate $result with the reason in the form of array( messagename, param1, param2, ... ). For consistency, error messages should be plain text with no special coloring, bolding, etc. to show that they're errors; presenting them properly to the user as errors is done by the caller. $title: Title object being checked against $user : Current user object $action: Action being checked $result: User permissions error to add. If none, return true. 'getUserPermissionsErrorsExpensive': Equal to getUserPermissionsErrors, but is called only if expensive checks are enabled. Add a permissions error when permissions errors are checked for. Return false if the user can't do it, and populate $result with the reason in the form of array( messagename, param1, param2, ... ). For consistency, error messages should be plain text with no special coloring, bolding, etc. to show that they're errors; presenting them properly to the user as errors is done by the caller. $title: Title object being checked against $user : Current user object $action: Action being checked $result: User permissions error to add. If none, return true. 'GitViewers': Called when generating the list of git viewers for Special:Version, use this to change the list. &$extTypes: associative array of repo URLS to viewer URLs. 'HistoryRevisionTools': Override or extend the revision tools available from the page history view, i.e. undo, rollback, etc. $rev: Revision object &$links: Array of HTML links 'ImageBeforeProduceHTML': Called before producing the HTML created by a wiki image insertion. You can skip the default logic entirely by returning false, or just modify a few things using call-by-reference. &$skin: Skin object &$title: Title object of the image &$file: File object, or false if it doesn't exist &$frameParams: Various parameters with special meanings; see documentation in includes/Linker.php for Linker::makeImageLink &$handlerParams: Various parameters with special meanings; see documentation in includes/Linker.php for Linker::makeImageLink &$time: Timestamp of file in 'YYYYMMDDHHIISS' string form, or false for current &$res: Final HTML output, used if you return false 'ImageOpenShowImageInlineBefore': Call potential extension just before showing the image on an image page. $imagePage: ImagePage object ($this) $output: $wgOut 'ImagePageAfterImageLinks': Called after the image links section on an image page is built. $imagePage: ImagePage object ($this) &$html: HTML for the hook to add 'ImagePageFileHistoryLine': Called when a file history line is constructed. $file: the file $line: the HTML of the history line $css: the line CSS class 'ImagePageFindFile': Called when fetching the file associated with an image page. $page: ImagePage object &$file: File object &$displayFile: displayed File object 'ImagePageShowTOC': Called when the file toc on an image page is generated. $page: ImagePage object &$toc: Array of
  • strings 'ImgAuthBeforeStream': executed before file is streamed to user, but only when using img_auth.php. &$title: the Title object of the file as it would appear for the upload page &$path: the original file and path name when img_auth was invoked by the the web server &$name: the name only component of the file &$result: The location to pass back results of the hook routine (only used if failed) $result[0]=The index of the header message $result[1]=The index of the body text message $result[2 through n]=Parameters passed to body text message. Please note the header message cannot receive/use parameters. 'ImportHandleLogItemXMLTag': When parsing a XML tag in a log item. $reader: XMLReader object $logInfo: Array of information Return false to stop further processing of the tag 'ImportHandlePageXMLTag': When parsing a XML tag in a page. $reader: XMLReader object $pageInfo: Array of information Return false to stop further processing of the tag 'ImportHandleRevisionXMLTag': When parsing a XML tag in a page revision. $reader: XMLReader object $pageInfo: Array of page information $revisionInfo: Array of revision information Return false to stop further processing of the tag 'ImportHandleToplevelXMLTag': When parsing a top level XML tag. $reader: XMLReader object Return false to stop further processing of the tag 'ImportHandleUploadXMLTag': When parsing a XML tag in a file upload. $reader: XMLReader object $revisionInfo: Array of information Return false to stop further processing of the tag 'InfoAction': When building information to display on the action=info page. $context: IContextSource object &$pageInfo: Array of information 'InitializeArticleMaybeRedirect': MediaWiki check to see if title is a redirect. $title: Title object for the current page $request: WebRequest $ignoreRedirect: boolean to skip redirect check $target: Title/string of redirect target $article: Article object 'InterwikiLoadPrefix': When resolving if a given prefix is an interwiki or not. Return true without providing an interwiki to continue interwiki search. $prefix: interwiki prefix we are looking for. &$iwData: output array describing the interwiki with keys iw_url, iw_local, iw_trans and optionally iw_api and iw_wikiid. 'InternalParseBeforeSanitize': during Parser's internalParse method just before the parser removes unwanted/dangerous HTML tags and after nowiki/noinclude/ includeonly/onlyinclude and other processings. Ideal for syntax-extensions after template/parser function execution which respect nowiki and HTML-comments. &$parser: Parser object &$text: string containing partially parsed text &$stripState: Parser's internal StripState object 'InternalParseBeforeLinks': during Parser's internalParse method before links but after nowiki/noinclude/includeonly/onlyinclude and other processings. &$parser: Parser object &$text: string containing partially parsed text &$stripState: Parser's internal StripState object 'InvalidateEmailComplete': Called after a user's email has been invalidated successfully. $user: user (object) whose email is being invalidated 'IRCLineURL': When constructing the URL to use in an IRC notification. Callee may modify $url and $query, URL will be constructed as $url . $query &$url: URL to index.php &$query: Query string $rc: RecentChange object that triggered url generation 'IsFileCacheable': Override the result of Article::isFileCacheable() (if true) $article: article (object) being checked 'IsTrustedProxy': Override the result of wfIsTrustedProxy() $ip: IP being check $result: Change this value to override the result of wfIsTrustedProxy() 'IsUploadAllowedFromUrl': Override the result of UploadFromUrl::isAllowedUrl() $url: URL used to upload from &$allowed: Boolean indicating if uploading is allowed for given URL 'isValidEmailAddr': Override the result of Sanitizer::validateEmail(), for instance to return false if the domain name doesn't match your organization. $addr: The e-mail address entered by the user &$result: Set this and return false to override the internal checks 'isValidPassword': Override the result of User::isValidPassword() $password: The password entered by the user &$result: Set this and return false to override the internal checks $user: User the password is being validated for 'Language::getMessagesFileName': $code: The language code or the language we're looking for a messages file for &$file: The messages file path, you can override this to change the location. 'LanguageGetNamespaces': Provide custom ordering for namespaces or remove namespaces. Do not use this hook to add namespaces. Use CanonicalNamespaces for that. &$namespaces: Array of namespaces indexed by their numbers 'LanguageGetMagic': DEPRECATED, use $magicWords in a file listed in $wgExtensionMessagesFiles instead. Use this to define synonyms of magic words depending of the language $magicExtensions: associative array of magic words synonyms $lang: language code (string) 'LanguageGetSpecialPageAliases': DEPRECATED, use $specialPageAliases in a file listed in $wgExtensionMessagesFiles instead. Use to define aliases of special pages names depending of the language $specialPageAliases: associative array of magic words synonyms $lang: language code (string) 'LanguageGetTranslatedLanguageNames': Provide translated language names. &$names: array of language code => language name $code language of the preferred translations 'LanguageLinks': Manipulate a page's language links. This is called in various places to allow extensions to define the effective language links for a page. $title: The page's Title. &$links: Associative array mapping language codes to prefixed links of the form "language:title". &$linkFlags: Associative array mapping prefixed links to arrays of flags. Currently unused, but planned to provide support for marking individual language links in the UI, e.g. for featured articles. 'LinkBegin': Used when generating internal and interwiki links in Linker::link(), before processing starts. Return false to skip default processing and return $ret. See documentation for Linker::link() for details on the expected meanings of parameters. $skin: the Skin object $target: the Title that the link is pointing to &$html: the contents that the tag should have (raw HTML); null means "default". &$customAttribs: the HTML attributes that the tag should have, in associative array form, with keys and values unescaped. Should be merged with default values, with a value of false meaning to suppress the attribute. &$query: the query string to add to the generated URL (the bit after the "?"), in associative array form, with keys and values unescaped. &$options: array of options. Can include 'known', 'broken', 'noclasses'. &$ret: the value to return if your hook returns false. 'LinkEnd': Used when generating internal and interwiki links in Linker::link(), just before the function returns a value. If you return true, an element with HTML attributes $attribs and contents $html will be returned. If you return false, $ret will be returned. $skin: the Skin object $target: the Title object that the link is pointing to $options: the options. Will always include either 'known' or 'broken', and may include 'noclasses'. &$html: the final (raw HTML) contents of the tag, after processing. &$attribs: the final HTML attributes of the tag, after processing, in associative array form. &$ret: the value to return if your hook returns false. 'LinkerMakeExternalImage': At the end of Linker::makeExternalImage() just before the return. &$url: the image url &$alt: the image's alt text &$img: the new image HTML (if returning false) 'LinkerMakeExternalLink': At the end of Linker::makeExternalLink() just before the return. &$url: the link url &$text: the link text &$link: the new link HTML (if returning false) &$attribs: the attributes to be applied. $linkType: The external link type 'LinkerMakeMediaLinkFile': At the end of Linker::makeMediaLinkFile() just before the return. $title: the Title object that the link is pointing to $file: the File object or false if broken link &$html: the link text &$attribs: the attributes to be applied &$ret: the value to return if your hook returns false 'LinksUpdate': At the beginning of LinksUpdate::doUpdate() just before the actual update. &$linksUpdate: the LinksUpdate object 'LinksUpdateAfterInsert': At the end of LinksUpdate::incrTableUpdate() after each link table insert. For example, pagelinks, imagelinks, externallinks. $linksUpdate: LinksUpdate object $table: the table to insert links to $insertions: an array of links to insert 'LinksUpdateComplete': At the end of LinksUpdate::doUpdate() when updating, including delete and insert, has completed for all link tables &$linksUpdate: the LinksUpdate object 'LinksUpdateConstructed': At the end of LinksUpdate() is construction. &$linksUpdate: the LinksUpdate object 'ListDefinedTags': When trying to find all defined tags. &$tags: The list of tags. 'LoadExtensionSchemaUpdates': Called during database installation and updates. &updater: A DatabaseUpdater subclass 'LocalFile::getHistory': Called before file history query performed. $file: the File object $tables: tables $fields: select fields $conds: conditions $opts: query options $join_conds: JOIN conditions 'LocalFilePurgeThumbnails': Called before thumbnails for a local file a purged. $file: the File object $archiveName: name of an old file version or false if it's the current one 'LocalisationCacheRecache': Called when loading the localisation data into cache. $cache: The LocalisationCache object $code: language code &$alldata: The localisation data from core and extensions &purgeBlobs: whether to purge/update the message blobs via MessageBlobStore::clear() 'LocalisationChecksBlacklist': When fetching the blacklist of localisation checks. &$blacklist: array of checks to blacklist. See the bottom of maintenance/language/checkLanguage.inc for the format of this variable. 'LocalisationIgnoredOptionalMessages': When fetching the list of ignored and optional localisation messages &$ignored Array of ignored message keys &$optional Array of optional message keys 'LogEventsListShowLogExtract': Called before the string is added to OutputPage. Returning false will prevent the string from being added to the OutputPage. &$s: html string to show for the log extract $types: String or Array Log types to show $page: String or Title The page title to show log entries for $user: String The user who made the log entries $param: Associative Array with the following additional options: - lim Integer Limit of items to show, default is 50 - conds Array Extra conditions for the query (e.g. "log_action != 'revision'") - showIfEmpty boolean Set to false if you don't want any output in case the loglist is empty if set to true (default), "No matching items in log" is displayed if loglist is empty - msgKey Array If you want a nice box with a message, set this to the key of the message. First element is the message key, additional optional elements are parameters for the key that are processed with wfMessage()->params()->parseAsBlock() - offset Set to overwrite offset parameter in $wgRequest set to '' to unset offset - wrap String Wrap the message in html (usually something like "<div ...>$1</div>"). - flags Integer display flags (NO_ACTION_LINK,NO_EXTRA_USER_LINKS) 'LoginAuthenticateAudit': A login attempt for a valid user account either succeeded or failed. No return data is accepted; this hook is for auditing only. $user: the User object being authenticated against $password: the password being submitted and found wanting $retval: a LoginForm class constant with authenticateUserData() return value (SUCCESS, WRONG_PASS, etc.). 'LoginPasswordResetMessage': User is being requested to reset their password on login. Use this hook to change the Message that will be output on Special:ChangePassword. &$msg: Message object that will be shown to the user $username: Username of the user who's password was expired. 'LogLine': Processes a single log entry on Special:Log. $log_type: string for the type of log entry (e.g. 'move'). Corresponds to logging.log_type database field. $log_action: string for the type of log action (e.g. 'delete', 'block', 'create2'). Corresponds to logging.log_action database field. $title: Title object that corresponds to logging.log_namespace and logging.log_title database fields. $paramArray: Array of parameters that corresponds to logging.log_params field. Note that only $paramArray[0] appears to contain anything. &$comment: string that corresponds to logging.log_comment database field, and which is displayed in the UI. &$revert: string that is displayed in the UI, similar to $comment. $time: timestamp of the log entry (added in 1.12) 'LonelyPagesQuery': Allow extensions to modify the query used by Special:LonelyPages. &$tables: tables to join in the query &$conds: conditions for the query &$joinConds: join conditions for the query 'MaintenanceRefreshLinksInit': before executing the refreshLinks.php maintenance script. $refreshLinks: RefreshLinks object 'MagicWordwgVariableIDs': When defining new magic words IDs. $variableIDs: array of strings 'MakeGlobalVariablesScript': Called at end of OutputPage::getJSVars. Ideally, this hook should only be used to add variables that depend on the current page/request; static configuration should be added through ResourceLoaderGetConfigVars instead. &$vars: variable (or multiple variables) to be added into the output of Skin::makeVariablesScript $out: The OutputPage which called the hook, can be used to get the real title. 'MarkPatrolled': Before an edit is marked patrolled. $rcid: ID of the revision to be marked patrolled $user: the user (object) marking the revision as patrolled $wcOnlySysopsCanPatrol: config setting indicating whether the user needs to be a sysop in order to mark an edit patrolled. 'MarkPatrolledComplete': After an edit is marked patrolled. $rcid: ID of the revision marked as patrolled $user: user (object) who marked the edit patrolled $wcOnlySysopsCanPatrol: config setting indicating whether the user must be a sysop to patrol the edit. 'MediaWikiPerformAction': Override MediaWiki::performAction(). Use this to do something completely different, after the basic globals have been set up, but before ordinary actions take place. $output: $wgOut $article: Article on which the action will be performed $title: Title on which the action will be performed $user: $wgUser $request: $wgRequest $mediaWiki: The $mediawiki object 'MessagesPreLoad': When loading a message from the database. $title: title of the message (string) $message: value (string), change it to the message you want to define 'MessageCache::get': When fetching a message. Can be used to override the key for customisations. Given and returned message key must be in special format: 1) first letter must be in lower case according to the content language. 2) spaces must be replaced with underscores &$key: message key (string) 'MessageCacheReplace': When a message page is changed. Useful for updating caches. $title: name of the page changed. $text: new contents of the page. 'MimeMagicInit': Before processing the list mapping MIME types to media types and the list mapping MIME types to file extensions. As an extension author, you are encouraged to submit patches to MediaWiki's core to add new MIME types to mime.types. $mimeMagic: Instance of MimeMagic. Use $mimeMagic->addExtraInfo( $stringOfInfo ); for adding new MIME info to the list. Use $mimeMagic->addExtraTypes( $stringOfTypes ); for adding new MIME types to the list. 'MimeMagicImproveFromExtension': Allows MW extensions to further improve the MIME type detected by considering the file extension. $mimeMagic: Instance of MimeMagic. $ext: File extension. &$mime: MIME type (in/out). 'MimeMagicGuessFromContent': Allows MW extensions guess the MIME by content. $mimeMagic: Instance of MimeMagic. &$head: First 1024 bytes of the file in a string (in - Do not alter!). &$tail: More or equal than last 65558 bytes of the file in a string (in - Do not alter!). $file: File path. &$mime: MIME type (out). 'ModifyExportQuery': Modify the query used by the exporter. $db: The database object to be queried. &$tables: Tables in the query. &$conds: Conditions in the query. &$opts: Options for the query. &$join_conds: Join conditions for the query. 'MonoBookTemplateToolboxEnd': DEPRECATED. Called by Monobook skin after toolbox links have been rendered (useful for adding more). Note: this is only run for the Monobook skin. To add items to the toolbox you should use the SkinTemplateToolboxEnd hook instead, which works for all "SkinTemplate"-type skins. $tools: array of tools 'BaseTemplateToolbox': Called by BaseTemplate when building the $toolbox array and returning it for the skin to output. You can add items to the toolbox while still letting the skin make final decisions on skin-specific markup conventions using this hook. &$sk: The BaseTemplate base skin template &$toolbox: An array of toolbox items, see BaseTemplate::getToolbox and BaseTemplate::makeListItem for details on the format of individual items inside of this array. 'NamespaceIsMovable': Called when determining if it is possible to pages in a namespace. $index: Integer; the index of the namespace being checked. $result: Boolean; whether MediaWiki currently thinks that pages in this namespace are movable. Hooks may change this value to override the return value of MWNamespace::isMovable(). 'NewRevisionFromEditComplete': Called when a revision was inserted due to an edit. $wikiPage: the WikiPage edited $rev: the new revision $baseID: the revision ID this was based off, if any $user: the editing user 'NormalizeMessageKey': Called before the software gets the text of a message (stuff in the MediaWiki: namespace), useful for changing WHAT message gets displayed. &$key: the message being looked up. Change this to something else to change what message gets displayed (string) &$useDB: whether or not to look up the message in the database (bool) &$langCode: the language code to get the message for (string) - or - whether to use the content language (true) or site language (false) (bool) &$transform: whether or not to expand variables and templates in the message (bool) 'OldChangesListRecentChangesLine': Customize entire recent changes line, or return false to omit the line from RecentChanges and Watchlist special pages. &$changeslist: The OldChangesList instance. &$s: HTML of the form "
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  • element 'OpenSearchUrls': Called when constructing the OpenSearch description XML. Hooks can alter or append to the array of URLs for search & suggestion formats. &$urls: array of associative arrays with Url element attributes 'OtherBlockLogLink': Get links to the block log from extensions which blocks users and/or IP addresses too. $otherBlockLink: An array with links to other block logs $ip: The requested IP address or username 'OutputPageBeforeHTML': A page has been processed by the parser and the resulting HTML is about to be displayed. $parserOutput: the parserOutput (object) that corresponds to the page $text: the text that will be displayed, in HTML (string) 'OutputPageBodyAttributes': Called when OutputPage::headElement is creating the body tag to allow for extensions to add attributes to the body of the page they might need. Or to allow building extensions to add body classes that aren't of high enough demand to be included in core. $out: The OutputPage which called the hook, can be used to get the real title $sk: The Skin that called OutputPage::headElement &$bodyAttrs: An array of attributes for the body tag passed to Html::openElement 'OutputPageCheckLastModified': when checking if the page has been modified since the last visit. &$modifiedTimes: array of timestamps. The following keys are set: page, user, epoch 'OutputPageParserOutput': after adding a parserOutput to $wgOut $out: OutputPage instance (object) $parserOutput: parserOutput instance being added in $out 'OutputPageMakeCategoryLinks': Links are about to be generated for the page's categories. Implementations should return false if they generate the category links, so the default link generation is skipped. $out: OutputPage instance (object) $categories: associative array, keys are category names, values are category types ("normal" or "hidden") $links: array, intended to hold the result. Must be an associative array with category types as keys and arrays of HTML links as values. 'OutputPageScriptsForBottomQueue': Allows adding modules to the bottom queue that should be requested in a dedicated