Hi again,
I think now I have an idea about what you're asking. I never used hooks before. From what I can tell by looking at hooks.doc, you should (by convention) probably put your hook function in an extension file under the extension directory. Then you should add a line to LocalSettings.php
require_once('extensions/yourextension.php');
Although I didn't have time to read hooks.doc in full, it's one of the most extensive documentation I've ever seen for Mediawiki :)
Read on and try different ways, I suggest.
ngungo wrote:
Hi Muzaffer,
Thanks for the advice. I really sound desperate and pitty huh!!! I don't how to reduce my problem simpler than I have stated:
Problem: I would like to insert into the ArticleSave hook a simple php function (that does nothing but returns true) as following:
function myFunction() { return true; }
I also included the background:
Background: I need to collect and compile some statistics of all posts and display them to a special page. The most natural way is when the Save Page button is hit, a php function (myFunction) will do the work and after that resume back to saving of the current page as normal. I have
posted
this problem here twice before, Erik Moeller has helped me to analyze the problem and guided me to read /docs/hooks.doc. I understand (I
think
so.) the concept, but have not been able to implemented. The above problem is the most reduced version of what I would like to do. I need to be over that hump before I can do anything else. Please help by giving me a step by step instructions. Please!!!
I am new here, this is my first time. I've been back and for with Erik and proposed what I should do (I also implemented that unsuccessfully as following), but haven heard from him for two days. I guess he is busy. I forgot to include what we have discussed:
Hi Erik,
doc/hooks.doc is really helpful. It provides me the theory of the hooks mechanism. For implementaion I need to learn more. Here's my understanding about the specific ArticleSave hook.
- I saw ArticleSave has been hooked twice in the function editForm
like:
if (wfRunHooks('ArticleSave', $this->mArticle, $wgUser, $this->textbox1, $this->summary, $this->minoredit, $this->watchthis, NULL)) { ... ... }
- I have to resister the hook in DefaultSettings.php with like this:
/**
- Global list of hooks.
- Add a hook by doing:
$wgHooks['event_name'][] = $function;- or:
$wgHooks['event_name'][] = array($function, $data);- or:
$wgHooks['event_name'][] = array($object, 'method');*/
$wgHooks = array(); $wgHooks['ArticleSave'][] = 'myFunction'; // new
- The function will be:
function myFunction() { // Call function Article::updateArticle // (to post this statistics on a Special:TextStatistics page). return true; }
- Where do I write the above 'myFunction'? On what class? Article (or
editPage)?
-----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Muzaffer Ozakca Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 12:54 PM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] ArticleSave hook
Hello,
I understand your frustration. But, as far as I can tell, and I've been members of this kind of communities, that's not the way to get answers. First of all, you have to describe your question really clearly. Unless you do so not many people will say that they didn't understand what you're asking for. You'll get nothing instead.
And second, you have to show that you spent some effort trying to solve the problem yourself. Without this nobody will be willing to write code for you while all you do is ask and wait. You should try to understand how the code works, then ask specific smaller questions.
And third, I've never seen that begging for help works.
And last, these are not the definitive rules, these are some of my observations and I don't always follow them either.
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