Manual:GlobalFunctions.php

MediaWiki File: GlobalFunctions.php
Location:	includes/
Source code:	master • 1.23.6 • 1.22.13
Classes:	None

GlobalFunctions.php is a file that contains global functions, including such important functions as wfMsgExt, which is used for internationalisation.

• wfMessage (before wfMsg and wfMsgExt, now deprecated)
• wfFindFile
• wfRunHooks(), calls Hooks:run().

Functions

wfRunHooks() example usage

wfRunHooks() example usage, from WikiPage:doEditContent():

$hook_args = array( &$this, &$user, $content, $summary,
	$flags & EDIT_MINOR, null, null, &$flags, $revision, &$status, $baseRevId );
ContentHandler::runLegacyHooks( 'ArticleSaveComplete', $hook_args );
wfRunHooks( 'PageContentSaveComplete', $hook_args );

wfRandom()

wfRandom() is used to populate page.page_random.

wfBaseConvert()

The function used to generate the base-36 SHA-1 text content hash in revision.rev_sha1 is wfBaseConvert( sha1( $text ), 16, 36, 31 ). API modules like ApiQueryRevisions use wfBaseConvert( $revision->getSha1(), 36, 16, 40 ).

See also

• Category:MediaWiki hooks included in GlobalFunctions.php