[Mediawiki-l] Touching a page programmatically?

[Daniel Barrett]

I want to "touch" an article by performing an empty edit, as if someone clicked "Edit" followed by "Save Page". Does anyone know why this code works sometimes and has no effect other times?

function touch($page) {
    $title = Title::newFromText($page);
    if ($title) {
      $article = new Article($title);
      return $article->doEdit($article->getContent(),
                              '',
                              EDIT_UPDATE);
}

Thanks,
DanB