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1 hooks.txt
2
3 This document describes how event hooks work in MediaWiki; how to add
4 hooks for an event; and how to run hooks for an event.
5
6 ==Glossary==
7
8 event
9 Something that happens with the wiki. For example: a user logs
10 in. A wiki page is saved. A wiki page is deleted. Often there are
11 two events associated with a single action: one before the code
12 is run to make the event happen, and one after. Each event has a
13 name, preferably in CamelCase. For example, 'UserLogin',
14 'ArticleSave', 'ArticleSaveComplete', 'ArticleDelete'.
15
16 hook
17 A clump of code and data that should be run when an event
18 happens. This can be either a function and a chunk of data, or an
19 object and a method.
20
21 hook function
22 The function part of a hook.
23
24 ==Rationale==
25
26 Hooks allow us to decouple optionally-run code from code that is run
27 for everyone. It allows MediaWiki hackers, third-party developers and
28 local administrators to define code that will be run at certain points
29 in the mainline code, and to modify the data run by that mainline
30 code. Hooks can keep mainline code simple, and make it easier to
31 write extensions. Hooks are a principled alternative to local patches.
32
33 Consider, for example, two options in MediaWiki. One reverses the
34 order of a title before displaying the article; the other converts the
35 title to all uppercase letters. Currently, in MediaWiki code, we
36 would handle this as follows (note: not real code, here):
37
38 function showAnArticle($article) {
39 global $wgReverseTitle, $wgCapitalizeTitle;
40
41 if ($wgReverseTitle) {
42 wfReverseTitle($article);
43 }
44
45 if ($wgCapitalizeTitle) {
46 wfCapitalizeTitle($article);
47 }
48
49 # code to actually show the article goes here
50 }
51
52 An extension writer, or a local admin, will often add custom code to
53 the function -- with or without a global variable. For example,
54 someone wanting email notification when an article is shown may add:
55
56 function showAnArticle($article) {
57 global $wgReverseTitle, $wgCapitalizeTitle;
58
59 if ($wgReverseTitle) {
60 wfReverseTitle($article);
61 }
62
63 if ($wgCapitalizeTitle) {
64 wfCapitalizeTitle($article);
65 }
66
67 # code to actually show the article goes here
68
69 if ($wgNotifyArticle) {
70 wfNotifyArticleShow($article));
71 }
72 }
73
74 Using a hook-running strategy, we can avoid having all this
75 option-specific stuff in our mainline code. Using hooks, the function
76 becomes:
77
78 function showAnArticle($article) {
79
80 if (wfRunHooks('ArticleShow', array(&$article))) {
81
82 # code to actually show the article goes here
83
84 wfRunHooks('ArticleShowComplete', array(&$article));
85 }
86 }
87
88 We've cleaned up the code here by removing clumps of weird,
89 infrequently used code and moving them off somewhere else. It's much
90 easier for someone working with this code to see what's _really_ going
91 on, and make changes or fix bugs.
92
93 In addition, we can take all the code that deals with the little-used
94 title-reversing options (say) and put it in one place. Instead of
95 having little title-reversing if-blocks spread all over the codebase
96 in showAnArticle, deleteAnArticle, exportArticle, etc., we can
97 concentrate it all in an extension file:
98
99 function reverseArticleTitle($article) {
100 # ...
101 }
102
103 function reverseForExport($article) {
104 # ...
105 }
106
107 The setup function for the extension just has to add its hook
108 functions to the appropriate events:
109
110 setupTitleReversingExtension() {
111 global $wgHooks;
112
113 $wgHooks['ArticleShow'][] = 'reverseArticleTitle';
114 $wgHooks['ArticleDelete'][] = 'reverseArticleTitle';
115 $wgHooks['ArticleExport'][] = 'reverseForExport';
116 }
117
118 Having all this code related to the title-reversion option in one
119 place means that it's easier to read and understand; you don't have to
120 do a grep-find to see where the $wgReverseTitle variable is used, say.
121
122 If the code is well enough isolated, it can even be excluded when not
123 used -- making for some slight savings in memory and load-up
124 performance at runtime. Admins who want to have all the reversed
125 titles can add:
126
127 require_once('extensions/ReverseTitle.php');
128
129 ...to their LocalSettings.php file; those of us who don't want or need
130 it can just leave it out.
131
132 The extensions don't even have to be shipped with MediaWiki; they
133 could be provided by a third-party developer or written by the admin
134 him/herself.
135
136 ==Writing hooks==
137
138 A hook is a chunk of code run at some particular event. It consists of:
139
140 * a function with some optional accompanying data, or
141 * an object with a method and some optional accompanying data.
142
143 Hooks are registered by adding them to the global $wgHooks array for a
144 given event. All the following are valid ways to define hooks:
145
146 $wgHooks['EventName'][] = 'someFunction'; # function, no data
147 $wgHooks['EventName'][] = array('someFunction', $someData);
148 $wgHooks['EventName'][] = array('someFunction'); # weird, but OK
149
150 $wgHooks['EventName'][] = $object; # object only
151 $wgHooks['EventName'][] = array($object, 'someMethod');
152 $wgHooks['EventName'][] = array($object, 'someMethod', $someData);
153 $wgHooks['EventName'][] = array($object); # weird but OK
154
155 When an event occurs, the function (or object method) will be called
156 with the optional data provided as well as event-specific parameters.
157 The above examples would result in the following code being executed
158 when 'EventName' happened:
159
160 # function, no data
161 someFunction($param1, $param2)
162 # function with data
163 someFunction($someData, $param1, $param2)
164
165 # object only
166 $object->onEventName($param1, $param2)
167 # object with method
168 $object->someMethod($param1, $param2)
169 # object with method and data
170 $object->someMethod($someData, $param1, $param2)
171
172 Note that when an object is the hook, and there's no specified method,
173 the default method called is 'onEventName'. For different events this
174 would be different: 'onArticleSave', 'onUserLogin', etc.
175
176 The extra data is useful if we want to use the same function or object
177 for different purposes. For example:
178
179 $wgHooks['ArticleSaveComplete'][] = array('ircNotify', 'TimStarling');
180 $wgHooks['ArticleSaveComplete'][] = array('ircNotify', 'brion');
181
182 This code would result in ircNotify being run twice when an article is
183 saved: once for 'TimStarling', and once for 'brion'.
184
185 Hooks can return three possible values:
186
187 * true: the hook has operated successfully
188 * "some string": an error occurred; processing should
189 stop and the error should be shown to the user
190 * false: the hook has successfully done the work
191 necessary and the calling function should skip
192
193 The last result would be for cases where the hook function replaces
194 the main functionality. For example, if you wanted to authenticate
195 users to a custom system (LDAP, another PHP program, whatever), you
196 could do:
197
198 $wgHooks['UserLogin'][] = array('ldapLogin', $ldapServer);
199
200 function ldapLogin($username, $password) {
201 # log user into LDAP
202 return false;
203 }
204
205 Returning false makes less sense for events where the action is
206 complete, and will normally be ignored.
207
208 ==Using hooks==
209
210 A calling function or method uses the wfRunHooks() function to run
211 the hooks related to a particular event, like so:
212
213 class Article {
214 # ...
215 function protect() {
216 global $wgUser;
217 if (wfRunHooks('ArticleProtect', array(&$this, &$wgUser))) {
218 # protect the article
219 wfRunHooks('ArticleProtectComplete', array(&$this, &$wgUser));
220 }
221 }
222 }
223
224 wfRunHooks() returns true if the calling function should continue
225 processing (the hooks ran OK, or there are no hooks to run), or false
226 if it shouldn't (an error occurred, or one of the hooks handled the
227 action already). Checking the return value matters more for "before"
228 hooks than for "complete" hooks.
229
230 Note that hook parameters are passed in an array; this is a necessary
231 inconvenience to make it possible to pass reference values (that can
232 be changed) into the hook code. Also note that earlier versions of
233 wfRunHooks took a variable number of arguments; the array() calling
234 protocol came about after MediaWiki 1.4rc1.
235
236 ==Events and parameters==
237
238 This is a list of known events and parameters; please add to it if
239 you're going to add events to the MediaWiki code.
240
241 'AbortLogin': Return false to cancel account login.
242 $user: the User object being authenticated against
243 $password: the password being submitted, not yet checked for validity
244 &$retval: a LoginForm class constant to return from authenticateUserData();
245 default is LoginForm::ABORTED. Note that the client may be using
246 a machine API rather than the HTML user interface.
247
248 'AbortNewAccount': Return false to cancel account creation.
249 $user: the User object about to be created (read-only, incomplete)
250 $message: out parameter: error message to display on abort
251
252 'AddNewAccount': after a user account is created
253 $user: the User object that was created. (Parameter added in 1.7)
254
255 'AjaxAddScript': Called in output page just before the initialisation
256 of the javascript ajax engine. The hook is only called when ajax
257 is enabled ( $wgUseAjax = true; ).
258
259 'AlternateEdit': before checking if an user can edit a page and
260 before showing the edit form ( EditPage::edit() ). This is triggered
261 on &action=edit.
262 $EditPage : the EditPage object
263
264 'ArticleDelete': before an article is deleted
265 $article: the article (object) being deleted
266 $user: the user (object) deleting the article
267 $reason: the reason (string) the article is being deleted
268
269 'ArticleDeleteComplete': after an article is deleted
270 $article: the article that was deleted
271 $user: the user that deleted the article
272 $reason: the reason the article was deleted
273
274 'ArticleInsertComplete': After an article is created
275 $article: Article created
276 $user: User creating the article
277 $text: New content
278 $summary: Edit summary/comment
279 $isMinor: Whether or not the edit was marked as minor
280 $isWatch: (No longer used)
281 $section: (No longer used)
282 $flags: Flags passed to Article::doEdit()
283 $revision: New Revision of the article
284
285 'ArticleProtect': before an article is protected
286 $article: the article being protected
287 $user: the user doing the protection
288 $protect: boolean whether this is a protect or an unprotect
289 $reason: Reason for protect
290 $moveonly: boolean whether this is for move only or not
291
292 'ArticleProtectComplete': after an article is protected
293 $article: the article that was protected
294 $user: the user who did the protection
295 $protect: boolean whether it was a protect or an unprotect
296 $reason: Reason for protect
297 $moveonly: boolean whether it was for move only or not
298
299 'ArticleRollbackComplete': after an article rollback is completed
300 $article: the article that was edited
301 $user: the user who did the rollback
302 $revision: the revision the page was reverted back to
303
304 'ArticleSave': before an article is saved
305 $article: the article (object) being saved
306 $user: the user (object) saving the article
307 $text: the new article text
308 $summary: the article summary (comment)
309 $isminor: minor flag
310 $iswatch: watch flag
311 $section: section #
312
313 'ArticleSaveComplete': After an article has been updated
314 $article: Article modified
315 $user: User performing the modification
316 $text: New content
317 $summary: Edit summary/comment
318 $isMinor: Whether or not the edit was marked as minor
319 $isWatch: (No longer used)
320 $section: (No longer used)
321 $flags: Flags passed to Article::doEdit()
322 $revision: New Revision of the article
323
324 'ArticleSaveComplete': after an article is saved
325 $article: the article (object) saved
326 $user: the user (object) who saved the article
327 $text: the new article text
328 $summary: the article summary (comment)
329 $isminor: minor flag
330 $iswatch: watch flag
331 $section: section #
332
333 wfRunHooks( 'ArticleSaveComplete', array( &$this, &$wgUser, $text, $summary, $flags & EDIT_MINOR, null, null, &$flags, $revision ) );
334
335 'ArticleUndeleted': When one or more revisions of an article are restored
336 $title: Title corresponding to the article restored
337 $create: Whether or not the restoration caused the page to be created
338 (i.e. it didn't exist before)
339
340 'ArticleViewHeader': Before the parser cache is about to be tried for article viewing.
341 &$article: the article
342 &$pcache: whether to try the parser cache or not
343 &$outputDone: whether the output for this page finished or not
344
345 'ArticleUpdateBeforeRedirect': After a page is updated (usually on save), before the user is redirected back to the page
346 &$article: the article
347 &$sectionanchor: The section anchor link (e.g. "#overview" )
348 &$extraq: Extra query parameters which can be added via hooked functions
349
350 'AuthPluginSetup': update or replace authentication plugin object ($wgAuth)
351 Gives a chance for an extension to set it programattically to a variable class.
352 &$auth: the $wgAuth object, probably a stub
353
354 'AutoAuthenticate': called to authenticate users on external/environmental means
355 $user: writes user object to this parameter
356
357 'BadImage': When checking against the bad image list
358 $name: Image name being checked
359 &$bad: Whether or not the image is "bad"
360
361 Change $bad and return false to override. If an image is "bad", it is not
362 rendered inline in wiki pages or galleries in category pages.
363
364 'BeforeGalleryFindFile': before an image is fetched for a gallery
365 &$gallery,: the gallery object
366 &$nt: the image title
367 &$time: image timestamp
368
369 'BeforePageDisplay': Prior to outputting a page
370 $out: OutputPage object
371
372 'BeforeParserFetchTemplateAndtitle': before a template is fetched by Parser
373 &$parser: Parser object
374 &$title: title of the template
375 &$skip: skip this template and link it?
376 &$id: the id of the revision being parsed
377
378 'BeforeParserMakeImageLinkObj': before an image is rendered by Parser
379 &$parser: Parser object
380 &$nt: the image title
381 &$skip: skip this image and link it?
382 &$time: the image timestamp
383
384 'BeforeParserrenderImageGallery': before an image gallery is rendered by Parser
385 &$parser: Parser object
386 &$ig: ImageGallery object
387
388 'BeforeWatchlist': Override watchlist display or add extra SQL clauses.
389 $nondefaults: Assoc array with the following keys:
390 days, hideOwn, hideBots, hideMinor, namespace
391 $wgUser: wgUser.
392 &$hookSql: a string which will be inserted without sanitation into the SQL query
393 used to get the watchlist, at the end of the WHERE part.
394
395 'BlockIp': before an IP address or user is blocked
396 $block: the Block object about to be saved
397 $user: the user _doing_ the block (not the one being blocked)
398
399 'BlockIpComplete': after an IP address or user is blocked
400 $block: the Block object that was saved
401 $user: the user who did the block (not the one being blocked)
402
403 'BookInformation': Before information output on Special:Booksources
404 $isbn: ISBN to show information for
405 $output: OutputPage object in use
406
407 'CategoryPageView': before viewing a categorypage in CategoryPage::view
408 $catpage: CategoryPage instance
409
410 'ChangesListInsertArticleLink': Override or augment link to article in RC list.
411 &$this: ChangesList instance.
412 &$articlelink: HTML of link to article (already filled-in).
413 &$s: HTML of row that is being constructed.
414 &$rc: RecentChange instance.
415 $unpatrolled: Whether or not we are showing unpatrolled changes.
416 $watched: Whether or not the change is watched by the user.
417
418 'ContributionsToolLinks': Change tool links above Special:Contributions
419 $id: User identifier
420 $title: User page title
421 &$tools: Array of tool links
422
423 'CustomEditor': When invoking the page editor
424 $article: Article being edited
425 $user: User performing the edit
426
427 Return true to allow the normal editor to be used, or false
428 if implementing a custom editor, e.g. for a special namespace,
429 etc.
430
431 'DiffViewHeader': called before diff display
432 $diff: DifferenceEngine object that's calling
433 $oldRev: Revision object of the "old" revision (may be null/invalid)
434 $newRev: Revision object of the "new" revision
435
436 'EditPage::attemptSave': called before an article is
437 saved, that is before insertNewArticle() is called
438 &$editpage_Obj: the current EditPage object
439
440 'EditFormPreloadText': Allows population of the edit form when creating new pages
441 &$text: Text to preload with
442 &$title: Title object representing the page being created
443
444 'EditPage::showEditForm:fields': allows injection of form field into edit form
445 &$editor: the EditPage instance for reference
446 &$out: an OutputPage instance to write to
447 return value is ignored (should always return true)
448
449 'EditFilter': Perform checks on an edit
450 $editor: Edit form (see includes/EditPage.php)
451 $text: Contents of the edit box
452 $section: Section being edited
453 &$error: Error message to return
454
455 Return false to halt editing; you'll need to handle error messages, etc. yourself.
456 Alternatively, modifying $error and returning true will cause the contents of $error
457 to be echoed at the top of the edit form as wikitext. Return true without altering
458 $error to allow the edit to proceed.
459
460 'EditSectionLink': Override the return value of Linker::editSectionLink()
461 $skin: Skin rendering the UI
462 $title: Title being linked to
463 $section: Section to link to
464 $link: Default link
465 $result: Result (alter this to override the generated links)
466
467 'EditSectionLinkForOther': Override the return value of Linker::editSectionLinkForOther()
468 $skin: Skin rendering the UI
469 $title: Title being linked to
470 $section: Section to link to
471 $hint: Anchor title/tooltip attributes
472 $link: Default link
473 $result: Result (alter this to override the generated links)
474
475 'EmailConfirmed': When checking that the user's email address is "confirmed"
476 $user: User being checked
477 $confirmed: Whether or not the email address is confirmed
478 This runs before the other checks, such as anonymity and the real check; return
479 true to allow those checks to occur, and false if checking is done.
480
481 'EmailUser': before sending email from one user to another
482 $to: address of receiving user
483 $from: address of sending user
484 $subject: subject of the mail
485 $text: text of the mail
486
487 'EmailUserComplete': after sending email from one user to another
488 $to: address of receiving user
489 $from: address of sending user
490 $subject: subject of the mail
491 $text: text of the mail
492
493 'FetchChangesList': When fetching the ChangesList derivative for a particular user
494 &$user: User the list is being fetched for
495 &$skin: Skin object to be used with the list
496 &$list: List object (defaults to NULL, change it to an object instance and return
497 false override the list derivative used)
498
499 'FileUpload': When a file upload occurs
500 $file : Image object representing the file that was uploaded
501
502 'GetInternalURL': modify fully-qualified URLs used for squid cache purging
503 $title: Title object of page
504 $url: string value as output (out parameter, can modify)
505 $query: query options passed to Title::getInternalURL()
506
507 'GetLinkColours': modify the CSS class of an array of page links
508 $linkcolour_ids: array of prefixed DB keys of the pages linked to, indexed by page_id.
509 &$colours: (output) array of CSS classes, indexed by prefixed DB keys
510
511 'GetLocalURL': modify local URLs as output into page links
512 $title: Title object of page
513 $url: string value as output (out parameter, can modify)
514 $query: query options passed to Title::getLocalURL()
515
516 'GetFullURL': modify fully-qualified URLs used in redirects/export/offsite data
517 $title: Title object of page
518 $url: string value as output (out parameter, can modify)
519 $query: query options passed to Title::getFullURL()
520
521 'getUserPermissionsErrors': Add a permissions error when permissions errors are checked for.
522 Use instead of userCan for most cases. Return false if the user can't do it,
523 and populate $result with the reason in the form of array( messagename, param1, param2 )
524 $title: Title object being checked against
525 $user : Current user object
526 $action: Action being checked
527 $result: User permissions error to add. If none, return true.
528
529 'ImageOpenShowImageInlineBefore': Call potential extension just before showing the image on an image page
530 $imagePage: ImagePage object ($this)
531 $output: $wgOut
532
533 'InitPreferencesForm': called at the end of PreferencesForm's constructor
534 $form: the PreferencesForm
535 $request: the web request to initialized from
536
537 'InternalParseBeforeLinks': during Parser's internalParse method before links but
538 after noinclude/includeonly/onlyinclude and other processing.
539 &$this: Parser object
540 &$text: string containing partially parsed text
541 &$this->mStripState: Parser's internal StripState object
542
543 'isValidEmailAddr': Override the result of User::isValidEmailAddr(), for ins-
544 tance to return false if the domain name doesn't match your organization
545 $addr: The e-mail address entered by the user
546 &$result: Set this and return false to override the internal checks
547
548 'isValidPassword': Override the result of User::isValidPassword()
549 $password: The password entered by the user
550 &$result: Set this and return false to override the internal checks
551 $user: User the password is being validated for
552
553 'LinksUpdateConstructed': At the end of LinksUpdate() is contruction.
554 &$linksUpdate: the LinkUpdate object
555
556 'LoginAuthenticateAudit': a login attempt for a valid user account either succeeded or failed.
557 No return data is accepted; this hook is for auditing only.
558 $user: the User object being authenticated against
559 $password: the password being submitted and found wanting
560 $retval: a LoginForm class constant with authenticateUserData() return value (SUCCESS, WRONG_PASS, etc)
561
562 'LogLine': Processes a single log entry on Special:Log
563 $log_type: string for the type of log entry (e.g. 'move'). Corresponds to logging.log_type
564 database field.
565 $log_action: string for the type of log action (e.g. 'delete', 'block', 'create2'). Corresponds
566 to logging.log_action database field.
567 $title: Title object that corresponds to logging.log_namespace and logging.log_title database fields.
568 $paramArray: Array of parameters that corresponds to logging.log_params field. Note that only $paramArray[0]
569 appears to contain anything.
570 &$comment: string that corresponds to logging.log_comment database field, and which is displayed in the UI.
571 &$revert: string that is displayed in the UI, similar to $comment.
572
573 'LogPageValidTypes': action being logged. DEPRECATED: Use $wgLogTypes
574 &$type: array of strings
575
576 'LogPageLogName': name of the logging page(s). DEPRECATED: Use $wgLogNames
577 &$typeText: array of strings
578
579 'LogPageLogHeader': strings used by wfMsg as a header. DEPRECATED: Use $wgLogHeaders
580 &$headerText: array of strings
581
582 'LogPageActionText': strings used by wfMsg as a header. DEPRECATED: Use $wgLogActions
583 &$actionText: array of strings
584
585 'MarkPatrolled': before an edit is marked patrolled
586 $rcid: ID of the revision to be marked patrolled
587 $user: the user (object) marking the revision as patrolled
588 $wcOnlySysopsCanPatrol: config setting indicating whether the user
589 needs to be a sysop in order to mark an edit patrolled
590
591 'MarkPatrolledComplete': after an edit is marked patrolled
592 $rcid: ID of the revision marked as patrolled
593 $user: user (object) who marked the edit patrolled
594 $wcOnlySysopsCanPatrol: config setting indicating whether the user
595 must be a sysop to patrol the edit
596
597 'MathAfterTexvc': after texvc is executed when rendering mathematics
598 $mathRenderer: instance of MathRenderer
599 $errmsg: error message, in HTML (string). Nonempty indicates failure
600 of rendering the formula
601
602 'MediaWikiPerformAction': Override MediaWiki::performAction().
603 Use this to do something completely different, after the basic
604 globals have been set up, but before ordinary actions take place.
605 $output: $wgOut
606 $article: $wgArticle
607 $title: $wgTitle
608 $user: $wgUser
609 $request: $wgRequest
610
611 'OutputPageBeforeHTML': a page has been processed by the parser and
612 the resulting HTML is about to be displayed.
613 $parserOutput: the parserOutput (object) that corresponds to the page
614 $text: the text that will be displayed, in HTML (string)
615
616 'PageHistoryBeforeList': When a history page list is about to be constructed.
617 $article: the article that the history is loading for
618
619 'PageHistoryLineEnding' : right before the end <li> is added to a history line
620 $row: the revision row for this line
621 $s: the string representing this parsed line
622
623 'PageRenderingHash': alter the parser cache option hash key
624 A parser extension which depends on user options should install
625 this hook and append its values to the key.
626 $hash: reference to a hash key string which can be modified
627
628 'ParserTestTables': alter the list of tables to duplicate when parser tests
629 are run. Use when page save hooks require the presence of custom tables
630 to ensure that tests continue to run properly.
631 &$tables: array of table names
632
633 'PersonalUrls': Alter the user-specific navigation links (e.g. "my page,
634 my talk page, my contributions" etc).
635
636 &$personal_urls: Array of link specifiers (see SkinTemplate.php)
637 &$title: Title object representing the current page
638
639 'PingLimiter': Allows extensions to override the results of User::pingLimiter()
640 &$user : User performing the action
641 $action : Action being performed
642 &$result : Whether or not the action should be prevented
643 Change $result and return false to give a definitive answer, otherwise
644 the built-in rate limiting checks are used, if enabled.
645
646 'PreferencesUserInformationPanel': Add HTML bits to user information list in preferences form
647 $form : PreferencesForm object
648 &$html : HTML to append to
649
650 'RawPageViewBeforeOutput': Right before the text is blown out in action=raw
651 &$obj: RawPage object
652 &$text: The text that's going to be the output
653
654 'RenderPreferencesForm': called at the end of PreferencesForm::mainPrefsForm
655 $form: the PreferencesForm
656 $out: output page to render to, probably $wgOut
657
658 'ResetPreferences': called at the end of PreferencesForm::resetPrefs
659 $form: the PreferencesForm
660 $user: the User object to load preferences from
661
662 'SavePreferences': called at the end of PreferencesForm::savePreferences;
663 returning false prevents the preferences from being saved.
664 $form: the PreferencesForm
665 $user: the User object to save preferences to
666 $message: change this to set an error message (ignored if the hook does notreturn fals)
667
668 'SearchUpdate': Prior to search update completion
669 $id : Page id
670 $namespace : Page namespace
671 $title : Page title
672 $text : Current text being indexed
673
674 'ShowRawCssJs': Customise the output of raw CSS and JavaScript in page views
675 $text: Text being shown
676 $title: Title of the custom script/stylesheet page
677 $output: Current OutputPage object
678
679 'SiteNoticeBefore': Before the sitenotice/anonnotice is composed
680 &$siteNotice: HTML returned as the sitenotice
681 Return true to allow the normal method of notice selection/rendering to work,
682 or change the value of $siteNotice and return false to alter it.
683
684 'SiteNoticeAfter': After the sitenotice/anonnotice is composed
685 &$siteNotice: HTML sitenotice
686 Alter the contents of $siteNotice to add to/alter the sitenotice/anonnotice.
687
688 'SkinAfterBottomScripts': At the end of Skin::bottomScripts()
689 $skin: Skin object
690 &$text: bottomScripts Text
691 Append to $text to add additional text/scripts after the stock bottom scripts.
692
693 'SkinTemplateContentActions': Alter the "content action" links in SkinTemplates
694 &$content_actions: Content actions
695 [See http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/examples/Content_action.php
696 for an example]
697
698 'SkinTemplateOutputPageBeforeExec': Before SkinTemplate::outputPage() starts page output
699 &$sktemplate: SkinTemplate object
700 &$tpl: Template engine object
701
702 'SkinTemplateTabAction': Override SkinTemplate::tabAction().
703 You can either create your own array, or alter the parameters for the normal one.
704 &$this: The SkinTemplate instance.
705 $title: Title instance for the page.
706 $message: Visible label of tab.
707 $selected: Whether this is a selected tab.
708 $checkEdit: Whether or not the action=edit query should be added if appropriate.
709 &$classes: Array of CSS classes to apply.
710 &$query: Query string to add to link.
711 &$text: Link text.
712 &$result: Complete assoc. array if you want to return true.
713
714 'SpecialContributionsBeforeMainOutput': Before the form on Special:Contributions
715 $id: User identifier
716
717 'TitleMoveComplete': after moving an article (title)
718 $old: old title
719 $nt: new title
720 $user: user who did the move
721 $pageid: database ID of the page that's been moved
722 $redirid: database ID of the created redirect
723
724 'UnknownAction': An unknown "action" has occured (useful for defining
725 your own actions)
726 $action: action name
727 $article: article "acted on"
728
729 'UnwatchArticle': before a watch is removed from an article
730 $user: user watching
731 $article: article object to be removed
732
733 'UnwatchArticle': after a watch is removed from an article
734 $user: user that was watching
735 $article: article object removed
736
737 'UnwatchArticleComplete': after a watch is removed from an article
738 $user: user that watched
739 $article: article object that was watched
740
741 'UploadForm:initial': before the upload form is generated
742 $form: UploadForm object
743 You might set the member-variables $uploadFormTextTop and
744 $uploadFormTextAfterSummary to inject text (HTML) either before
745 or after the editform.
746
747 'UploadForm:BeforeProcessing': at the beginning of processUpload()
748 $form: UploadForm object
749 Lets you poke at member variables like $mUploadDescription before the
750 file is saved.
751
752 'UploadVerification': additional chances to reject an uploaded file
753 string $saveName: destination file name
754 string $tempName: filesystem path to the temporary file for checks
755 string &$error: output: HTML error to show if upload canceled by returning false
756
757 'UploadComplete': Upon completion of a file upload
758 $image: Image object representing the file that was uploaded
759
760 'userCan': To interrupt/advise the "user can do X to Y article" check.
761 If you want to display an error message, try getUserPermissionsErrors.
762 $title: Title object being checked against
763 $user : Current user object
764 $action: Action being checked
765 $result: Pointer to result returned if hook returns false. If null is returned,
766 userCan checks are continued by internal code.
767
768 'UserCreateForm': change to manipulate the login form
769 $template: SimpleTemplate instance for the form
770
771 'UserLoginComplete': after a user has logged in
772 $user: the user object that was created on login
773
774 'UserLoginForm': change to manipulate the login form
775 $template: SimpleTemplate instance for the form
776
777 'UserLogout': before a user logs out
778 $user: the user object that is about to be logged out
779
780 'UserLogoutComplete': after a user has logged out
781 $user: the user object _after_ logout (won't have name, ID, etc.)
782
783 'UserRights': After a user's group memberships are changed
784 $user : User object that was changed
785 $add : Array of strings corresponding to groups added
786 $remove: Array of strings corresponding to groups removed
787
788 'UserGetImplicitGroups': Called in User::getImplicitGroups()
789 &$groups: List of implicit (automatically-assigned) groups
790
791 'UserGetRights': Called in User::getRights()
792 $user: User to get rights for
793 &$rights: Current rights
794
795 'UserEffectiveGroups': Called in User::getEffectiveGroups()
796 $user: User to get groups for
797 &$groups: Current effective groups
798
799 'WatchArticle': before a watch is added to an article
800 $user: user that will watch
801 $article: article object to be watched
802
803 'WatchArticleComplete': after a watch is added to an article
804 $user: user that watched
805 $article: article object watched
806
807
808 More hooks might be available but undocumented, you can execute
809 ./maintenance/findhooks.php to find hidden one.