Writing Special Page - Wikitech-l

8 Sep 2005


      I am having some trouble running the sample Special Page despite 
following the steps described, i.e. having included the file in 
LocalSettings and making appropriate changes to names, etc.  Any 
pointers on how to deal with this issue will be greatly appreciated.
The sample Special Page I'm referring to is at:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Writing_a_new_special_page
After including the file in LocalSettings, I will get the following 
error from PHP:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: includable() in 
/var/www/mediawiki-1.4.9/extensions/ExampleSpecialPage.php on line 27
None of the SpecialPage files inside the include/ directory have the 
includable() function so I just went ahead and commented it out, and 
then I will receive the following error:
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class specialpage in 
mediawiki-1.4.9/includes/SpecialPage.php on line 101
which is referring to the class SpecialPage declaration.
The problem code section is
class ExampleSpecialPage extends SpecialPage {
     function ExampleSpecialPage() {
         SpecialPage::SpecialPage( 'ExampleSpecialPage' );
         $this->includable( true );
     }
...
}