Re: [Mediawiki-l] form / globals problem

On 09/05/05, Jordi Domingo <jordidr(a)gmail.com> wrote: Have you tried setting $wgDebugLogFile in LocalSettings.php to a writable file, and then inserting lots of statements like wfDebug("my variable contains $my_variable"); around the code? This can give you a lot of feedback about what's going on at different stages. [as usual, see includes/DefaultSettings.php for the range of possible options and how to use them] I'm afraid it's very hard to follow what exactly your code is currently doing, and therefore to work out how your code should work: * by "globals", do you mean variables that you've declared outside of any function or class, and then declared using "global $foo;"-type statements (by convention, these are named like $wgVarName in MediaWiki)? * if so, they should be remembered between functions, but remember that every request of a page (e.g. clicking "Preview" or "Save" or whatever) runs a completely new instance of the program, so no variables will be "remembered" * or, do you mean that these values are part of the form itself (a "hidden" field, like "wpEdittime" in the normal code)? This should indeed be remembered between invocations, as long as you're setting it appropriately when the form is [re-]output * or, do you mean that the values are part of the URL, like the action=edit, in which case the code may need to be changed so that they are preserved when the form is submitted (i.e. the form needs to be submitted to a URL with those same extra arguments in, despite the "action=edit" changing to "action=submit"); presumably, there is already code to do this for the "&section=N", but I don't know where it is or whether it would need changing I don't know if these suggestions will seem overly simple, overly complex, or turn out not to be true because of things already in the code, but they're my best stab at helping based on the limited information you provided. -- Rowan Collins BSc [IMSoP]