calling output() to send it all. It could be easily changed
to send incrementally if that becomes useful, but I prefer
the flexibility. This should also do the output encoding.
- The system allocates a global one in $wgOut. This class
- also handles converting wikitext format to HTML.
+ The system allocates a global one in $wgOut.
Title
Represents the title of an article, and does all the work
Language
Represents the language used for incidental text, and also
has some character encoding functions and other locale stuff.
- A global one is allocated in $wgLang.
+ The current user interface language is instantiated as $wgLang,
+ and the local content language as $wgContLang; be sure to use
+ the *correct* language object depending upon the circumstances.
LinkCache
Keeps information on existence of articles. See LINKCACHE.TXT.
its own line or the statement that opened the block--that's
confusing as hell.
- - PHP doesn't have "private" member variables of functions,
- so I've used the comment "/* private */" in some places to
- indicate my intent. Don't access things marked that way
- from outside the class def--use the accessor functions (or
- make your own if you need them). Yes, even some globals
- are marked private, because PHP is broken and doesn't
- allow static class variables.
+ - Certain functions and class members are marked with
+ /* private */, rather than being marked as such. This is a
+ hold-over from PHP 4, which didn't support proper visibilities.
+ You should not access things marked in this manner outside the
+ class/inheritance line as this code is subjected to be updated
+ in a manner that enforces this at some time in the near future,
+ and things will break. New code should use the standard method of
+ setting visibilities as normal.
- Member variables are generally "mXxx" to distinguish them.
This should make it easier to spot errors of forgetting the
Other conventions: Top-level functions are wfFuncname(), names
of session variables are wsName, cookies wcName, and form field
- values wpName ("p" for "POST").
-
+ values wpName ("p" for "POST").
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