[Mediawiki-l] Extension manager

[Michael Daly]

Jan Steinman wrote:

> How about a single line in LocalSettings.php that includes a "don't  
> touch me" file that is maintained only via the ExtensionManager?

Rather than mucking about excessively with LocalSettings.php and global 
variables, consider using a more object-oriented approach and taking 
advantage of Wiki.php.  It's there to help eliminate globals but isn't 
used much yet.  If ExtensionManager is a proper class, you could have 
Wiki.php instantiate a singleton and have it handle _all_ extension 
stuff (including burying things like $wgAutoloadClasses, $wgSpecialPages 
and $wgHooks handling for extensions) as well.

Mike