From: Chad Horohoe <demon@users.mediawiki.org>
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 02:45:36 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Update docs to caution against use of create_function(). Per bug 15476.
X-Git-Tag: 1.31.0-rc.0~45358
X-Git-Url: http://git.cyclocoop.org/fichier?a=commitdiff_plain;h=bddfe64fc9fbe1f410f5b8fe89bc373ab78e951c;p=lhc%2Fweb%2Fwiklou.git

Update docs to caution against use of create_function(). Per bug 15476.
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diff --git a/docs/hooks.txt b/docs/hooks.txt
index 9e9dbf9ee7..440b251395 100644
--- a/docs/hooks.txt
+++ b/docs/hooks.txt
@@ -198,6 +198,10 @@ system (LDAP, another PHP program, whatever), you could do:
 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