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65s.mg＠atlas.cz

16 Mar 2008 16 Mar '08

10:15 p.m.

Hello. I tried many hooks, but I cannot find any, with which I can use for overwriting variale, that is defined in the LocalSettings.php. Any suggestions? Thanks. -MGrabovsky

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Platonides

16 Mar 16 Mar

10:36 p.m.

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65s.mg wrote:

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Hello. I tried many hooks, but I cannot find any, with which I can use for overwriting variale, that is defined in the LocalSettings.php. Any suggestions? Thanks. -MGrabovsky

Don't override it. Just conditionally set it.

Simetrical

10:53 p.m.

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On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 6:15 PM, <65s.mg(a)atlas.cz> wrote:

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Hello. I tried many hooks, but I cannot find any, with which I can use for overwriting variale, that is defined in the LocalSettings.php. Any suggestions? Thanks. -MGrabovsky

There is no hook specifically for this purpose. There doesn't need to be: the variables are globals. You can set them from any hook you want. Just make sure the hook executes early enough that it's before the global is used elsewhere.

Andrew Garrett

17 Mar 17 Mar

12:13 a.m.

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On 3/17/08, Simetrical <Simetrical+wikilist(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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I wonder if beforeConfiguration/afterConfiguration hooks would be desirable, before and after LocalSettings.php is included respectively. -- Andrew Garrett

DanTMan

9:14 a.m.

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Erm... there's a little issue with that idea... Do remember that extensions are defined inside of LocalSettings.php, and until loaded they don't have anything set inside of $wgHooks... So a beforeConfiguration hook would absolutely never be run by anything because nothing would be able to hook into it early enough. As for the afterConfiguration, generally we use $wgExtensionFunctions (Think that was the name) for this... ~Daniel Friesen(Dantman) of: -The Gaiapedia (http://gaia.wikia.com) -Wikia ACG on Wikia.com (http://wikia.com/wiki/Wikia_ACG) -and Wiki-Tools.com (http://wiki-tools.com) Andrew Garrett wrote:

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On 3/17/08, Simetrical <Simetrical+wikilist(a)gmail.com> wrote:

I wonder if beforeConfiguration/afterConfiguration hooks would be desirable, before and after LocalSettings.php is included respectively.

Andrew Garrett

10:11 a.m.

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On 3/17/08, DanTMan <dan_the_man(a)telus.net> wrote:

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Yes, I remembered that after I posted the message. By the way, please don't "top post". Traditionally, replying to messages on mailing lists is done in-line, as Simetrical and I have done. -- Andrew Garrett

Simetrical

1:22 p.m.

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On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 6:11 AM, Andrew Garrett <andrew(a)epstone.net> wrote:

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By the way, please don't "top post". Traditionally, replying to messages on mailing lists is done in-line, as Simetrical and I have done.

Of course, intelligent clients like Gmail will hide all the quoted text anyway when you're reading through a conversation, so the distinction should be irrelevant.

DanTMan

4:16 p.m.

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Eh? I've been "top posting" since the very first time I replied in this list, and no-one has ever had a problem with it. Honestly, this is completely personal preference, and there are other people on this mailing list who even use this style... even Huji, Jamie Hari, Jared, Voice of All, and a number of other people top post. ^_^ I don't have my client hide quotes... However, I do have it color the indentation, and also automatically convert the traditional > style text quotes into readable elements. Though I could swear I had an extension to allow me to collapse quotes at some point. ~Daniel Friesen(Dantman) of: -The Gaiapedia (http://gaia.wikia.com) -Wikia ACG on Wikia.com (http://wikia.com/wiki/Wikia_ACG) -and Wiki-Tools.com (http://wiki-tools.com) Simetrical wrote:

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On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 6:11 AM, Andrew Garrett <andrew(a)epstone.net> wrote:

By the way, please don't "top post". Traditionally, replying to messages on mailing lists is done in-line, as Simetrical and I have done.

Of course, intelligent clients like Gmail will hide all the quoted text anyway when you're reading through a conversation, so the distinction should be irrelevant. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Thomas Dalton

2:25 p.m.

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On 17/03/2008, DanTMan <dan_the_man(a)telus.net> wrote:

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You could just put the code directly into the beginning of LocalSettings.php - less tidy, but has the same effect as running a hook just before including LocalSettings.php.

Yaron Koren

12:14 a.m.

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Maybe I'm missing something, but it could that the answer to your problem is to add the following line before you set the variable: global $wgGlobalVar; -Yaron On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 6:53 PM, Simetrical <Simetrical+wikilist(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 6:15 PM, <65s.mg(a)atlas.cz> wrote:

Hello. I tried many hooks, but I cannot find any, with which I can use

for overwriting variale, that is defined in the LocalSettings.php. Any suggestions? Thanks. -MGrabovsky There is no hook specifically for this purpose. There doesn't need to be: the variables are globals. You can set them from any hook you want. Just make sure the hook executes early enough that it's before the global is used elsewhere. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Andrew Garrett

12:17 a.m.

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On 3/17/08, Yaron Koren <yaron57(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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Maybe I'm missing something, but it could that the answer to your problem is to add the following line before you set the variable: global $wgGlobalVar;

You're missing something. He wants the change to persist across requests. -- Andrew Garrett

Yaron Koren

12:28 a.m.

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Yeah, that's probably true; I should have phrased what I wrote better: it appeared to me that maybe all his attempts at solving the problem had failed because he hadn't made the "global" call in the first place. -Yaron On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 8:17 PM, Andrew Garrett <andrew(a)epstone.net> wrote:

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On 3/17/08, Yaron Koren <yaron57(a)gmail.com> wrote:

Maybe I'm missing something, but it could that the answer to your

problem is

to add the following line before you set the variable: global $wgGlobalVar;

You're missing something. He wants the change to persist across requests. -- Andrew Garrett _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Domas Mituzas

8:48 a.m.

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Just include your generated config file or code that sets stuff in LocalSettings.php? -- Domas Mituzas -- http://dammit.lt/ -- [[user:midom]]

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65s.mg＠atlas.cz
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Thomas Dalton
Yaron Koren