From 32ccdc3d5a90cfaa9b8f54df01c0deec3d2b242d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Victor Vasiliev <vasilievvv@users.mediawiki.org>
Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2007 17:37:08 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] * Use *bold* and $italics$ highlighting only in API help. It
 completely breaks formatting on meta=allmessages and no one needs it

---
 RELEASE-NOTES                  |  1 +
 includes/api/ApiFormatBase.php | 19 ++++++++++++++-----
 includes/api/ApiMain.php       |  3 +++
 3 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES
index b6b036ea32..2975a278be 100644
--- a/RELEASE-NOTES
+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES
@@ -313,6 +313,7 @@ Full API documentation is available at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API
 * Add action=parse to render parser output. Use it instead of action=render which is deprecated.
 * Add rvtoken=rollback to prop=revisions
 * Add meta=allmessages to get messages from site's messages cache.
+* Use bold and italics highlighting only in API help
 
 === Languages updated in 1.12 ===
 
diff --git a/includes/api/ApiFormatBase.php b/includes/api/ApiFormatBase.php
index 5bfbd9e12a..78b319832d 100644
--- a/includes/api/ApiFormatBase.php
+++ b/includes/api/ApiFormatBase.php
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ if (!defined('MEDIAWIKI')) {
  */
 abstract class ApiFormatBase extends ApiBase {
 
-	private $mIsHtml, $mFormat, $mUnescapeAmps;
+	private $mIsHtml, $mFormat, $mUnescapeAmps, $mHelp;
 
 	/**
 	* Create a new instance of the formatter.
@@ -169,6 +169,13 @@ See <a href='http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API'>complete documentation</a>, or
 			echo $text;
 	}
 
+	/**
+	* Says pretty-printer that it should use *bold* and $italics$ formatting
+	*/
+	public function setHelp( $help = true ) {
+		$this->mHelp = true;
+	}
+	
 	/**
 	* Prety-print various elements in HTML format, such as xml tags and URLs.
 	* This method also replaces any '<' with &lt;
@@ -184,10 +191,12 @@ See <a href='http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API'>complete documentation</a>, or
 		$text = ereg_replace("($protos)://[^ \\'\"()<\n]+", '<a href="\\0">\\0</a>', $text);
 		// identify requests to api.php
 		$text = ereg_replace("api\\.php\\?[^ \\()<\n\t]+", '<a href="\\0">\\0</a>', $text);
-		// make strings inside * bold
-		$text = ereg_replace("\\*[^<>\n]+\\*", '<b>\\0</b>', $text);
-		// make strings inside $ italic
-		$text = ereg_replace("\\$[^<>\n]+\\$", '<b><i>\\0</i></b>', $text);
+		if( $this->mHelp ) {
+			// make strings inside * bold
+			$text = ereg_replace("\\*[^<>\n]+\\*", '<b>\\0</b>', $text);
+			// make strings inside $ italic
+			$text = ereg_replace("\\$[^<>\n]+\\$", '<b><i>\\0</i></b>', $text);
+		}
 		
 		/* Temporary fix for bad links in help messages. As a special case,
 		 * XML-escaped metachars are de-escaped one level in the help message
diff --git a/includes/api/ApiMain.php b/includes/api/ApiMain.php
index 6d811834d2..d8bc30ea7a 100644
--- a/includes/api/ApiMain.php
+++ b/includes/api/ApiMain.php
@@ -317,6 +317,9 @@ class ApiMain extends ApiBase {
 
 			if ($this->mPrinter->getNeedsRawData())
 				$this->getResult()->setRawMode();
+
+			if( $this->mAction == 'help' )
+				$this->mPrinter->setHelp();
 		}
 
 		// Execute
-- 
2.20.1