From c9f49d84763e303af97da7664d29a8bcacae1280 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Kinzler <daniel@users.mediawiki.org>
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 20:49:23 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] allow Category objects for empty categories

---
 includes/Category.php | 13 ++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/includes/Category.php b/includes/Category.php
index 43864914e4..45d2afa2e4 100644
--- a/includes/Category.php
+++ b/includes/Category.php
@@ -46,7 +46,18 @@ class Category {
 		);
 		if( !$row ) {
 			# Okay, there were no contents.  Nothing to initialize.
-			return false;
+			if ( $this->mTitle ) {
+				# If there is a title object but no record in the category table, treat this as an empty category
+				$this->mID      = false;
+				$this->mName    = $this->mTitle->getDBKey();
+				$this->mPages   = 0;
+				$this->mSubcats = 0;
+				$this->mFiles   = 0;
+
+				return true;
+			} else {
+				return false; # Fail
+			}
 		}
 		$this->mID      = $row->cat_id;
 		$this->mName    = $row->cat_title;
-- 
2.20.1