Christensen, Courtney wrote:

I just wrote an extension that mimics the PAGESINCAT Magic Word until I'm allowed to upgrade our MW version. I don't want the wiki to get hosed up when we finally upgrade. What is a good way to not load the extension if the wiki version is high enough? Right now I am using the inaccurate if (function_exists( 'wfLoadExtensionMessages' )) { return true; }

Courtney Christensen

What about checking the global variable $wgVersion ?

I am using the hook AlternateEdit to provide an edit screen for uploading images. I provide some drop-down lists for the user to put in a description area of the image. I am using: $docLinkArticle = Revision::newFromTitle($m_pageObj->mTitle); $docLinkText = $docLinkArticle->getText(); to get the text. This works fine.

How do I now save the text after modifying it? Because this is uploaded images, things are not saved as usual.

Thank you,

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Christensen, Courtney wrote:

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Christensen, Courtney wrote:

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What is a good way to not load the extension if the wiki version is high enough? Right now I am using

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inaccurate if (function_exists( 'wfLoadExtensionMessages' )) { return true; }

P > What about checking the global variable $wgVersion ?

I tried that, but I couldn't get $wgVersion to be declared at the top of the file. I'm trying to do a check like the if (!defined(MEDIAWIKI)) at the top of the file so the extension isn't loaded at all if it isn't needed. I'm not sure why $wgVersion was giving me problems outside a function, but it was.

What's wrong with using an ExtensionFunction, that's what they are meant for?

$wgExtensionFunctions[] = 'efPAGESINCAT'; function efPAGESINCAT() { if( in_array(pagesincategory, MagicWord::$mVariableIDs) ) return; ...code here... }