[Mediawiki-l] Some problems with wfMsgWikiNoDBForContent...

[Elliott F. Cable]

So I'm trying to make this work... I don't quite know how to explain  
what I'm trying to do, best I can do is give you the code. I'm not a  
great programmer, I just hack at things (and kick when the axe gets  
dull) till they work, but that approach has failed me here - what am  
I doing wrong?

> /* Peer start */
> /**
> * Get a message from the language file, for the content, and parse  
> wiki into HTML
> */
> function wfMsgWikiNoDBForContent( $key ) {
> 	global $wgForceUIMsgAsContentMsg;
> 	$args = func_get_args();
> 	array_shift( $args );
> 	$forcontent = true;
> 	if( is_array( $wgForceUIMsgAsContentMsg ) &&
> 		in_array( $key,	$wgForceUIMsgAsContentMsg ) )
> 		$forcontent = false;
> 	$msg = wfMsgReal( $key, $args, false, $forcontent );
> 	return $msg;
> //	return $wgOut->parse( $msg, true );
> }
> /* Peer end */

The last commented out return is what I actually tried to do, but  
when I stick <?php echo( wfMsgWikiNoDBForContent( 'tools' ) ) ?> in  
the skin somewhere, everything breaks, and nothing at all appears  
below that in the source of the page, making me assume I somehow  
crashed PHP or ended mediawiki's entire process or something - what  
am I missing? As long as I leave the last line commented out, the  
second-to-last makes it function exactly as wfMsgNoDBForContent,  
which, more or less, doesn't work for the circumstances but is better  
than a blank page below the control bar... any help that I could get?