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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 'AbortMove': allows to abort moving an article (title)
249 $old: old title
250 $nt: new title
251 $user: user who is doing the move
252 $err: error message
253
254 'AbortNewAccount': Return false to cancel account creation.
255 $user: the User object about to be created (read-only, incomplete)
256 $message: out parameter: error message to display on abort
257
258 'AddNewAccount': after a user account is created
259 $user: the User object that was created. (Parameter added in 1.7)
260 $byEmail: true when account was created "by email" (added in 1.12)
261
262 'AjaxAddScript': Called in output page just before the initialisation
263 of the javascript ajax engine. The hook is only called when ajax
264 is enabled ( $wgUseAjax = true; ).
265
266 'AlternateEdit': before checking if an user can edit a page and
267 before showing the edit form ( EditPage::edit() ). This is triggered
268 on &action=edit.
269 $EditPage : the EditPage object
270
271 'APIEditBeforeSave': before saving a page with api.php?action=edit,
272 after processing request parameters. Return false to let the request
273 fail, returning an error message or an <edit result="Failure"> tag
274 if $resultArr was filled.
275 $EditPage : the EditPage object
276 $text : the new text of the article (has yet to be saved)
277 $resultArr : data in this array will be added to the API result
278
279 'ArticleAfterFetchContent': after fetching content of an article from the database
280 $article: the article (object) being loaded from the database
281 $content: the content (string) of the article
282
283 'ArticleDelete': before an article is deleted
284 $article: the article (object) being deleted
285 $user: the user (object) deleting the article
286 $reason: the reason (string) the article is being deleted
287
288 'ArticleDeleteComplete': after an article is deleted
289 $article: the article that was deleted
290 $user: the user that deleted the article
291 $reason: the reason the article was deleted
292
293 'ArticleEditUpdateNewTalk': before updating user_newtalk when a user talk page was changed
294 $article: article (object) of the user talk page
295
296 'ArticleEditUpdatesDeleteFromRecentchanges': before deleting old entries from recentchanges table, return false to not delete old entries
297 $article: article (object) being modified
298
299 'ArticleFromTitle': when creating an article object from a title object using Wiki::articleFromTitle()
300 $title: title (object) used to create the article object
301 $article: article (object) that will be returned
302
303 'ArticleInsertComplete': After an article is created
304 $article: Article created
305 $user: User creating the article
306 $text: New content
307 $summary: Edit summary/comment
308 $isMinor: Whether or not the edit was marked as minor
309 $isWatch: (No longer used)
310 $section: (No longer used)
311 $flags: Flags passed to Article::doEdit()
312 $revision: New Revision of the article
313
314 'ArticleMergeComplete': after merging to article using Special:Mergehistory
315 $targetTitle: target title (object)
316 $destTitle: destination title (object)
317
318 'ArticlePageDataAfter': after loading data of an article from the database
319 $article: article (object) whose data were loaded
320 $row: row (object) returned from the database server
321
322 'ArticlePageDataBefore': before loading data of an article from the database
323 $article: article (object) that data will be loaded
324 $fields: fileds (array) to load from the database
325
326 'ArticleProtect': before an article is protected
327 $article: the article being protected
328 $user: the user doing the protection
329 $protect: boolean whether this is a protect or an unprotect
330 $reason: Reason for protect
331 $moveonly: boolean whether this is for move only or not
332
333 'ArticleProtectComplete': after an article is protected
334 $article: the article that was protected
335 $user: the user who did the protection
336 $protect: boolean whether it was a protect or an unprotect
337 $reason: Reason for protect
338 $moveonly: boolean whether it was for move only or not
339
340 'ArticlePurge': before executing "&action=purge"
341 $article: article (object) to purge
342
343 'ArticleRevisionVisiblitySet': called when changing visibility of one or more
344 revision of an article
345 &$title: title object of the article
346
347 'ArticleRevisionUndeleted': after an article revision is restored
348 $title: the article title
349 $revision: the revision
350 $oldPageID: the page ID of the revision when archived (may be null)
351
352 'ArticleRollbackComplete': after an article rollback is completed
353 $article: the article that was edited
354 $user: the user who did the rollback
355 $revision: the revision the page was reverted back to
356
357 'ArticleSave': before an article is saved
358 $article: the article (object) being saved
359 $user: the user (object) saving the article
360 $text: the new article text
361 $summary: the article summary (comment)
362 $isminor: minor flag
363 $iswatch: watch flag
364 $section: section #
365
366 'ArticleSaveComplete': After an article has been updated
367 $article: Article modified
368 $user: User performing the modification
369 $text: New content
370 $summary: Edit summary/comment
371 $isMinor: Whether or not the edit was marked as minor
372 $isWatch: (No longer used)
373 $section: (No longer used)
374 $flags: Flags passed to Article::doEdit()
375 $revision: New Revision of the article
376
377 'ArticleSaveComplete': after an article is saved
378 $article: the article (object) saved
379 $user: the user (object) who saved the article
380 $text: the new article text
381 $summary: the article summary (comment)
382 $isminor: minor flag
383 $iswatch: watch flag
384 $section: section #
385
386 wfRunHooks( 'ArticleSaveComplete', array( &$this, &$wgUser, $text, $summary, $flags & EDIT_MINOR, null, null, &$flags, $revision ) );
387
388 'ArticleUndelete': When one or more revisions of an article are restored
389 $title: Title corresponding to the article restored
390 $create: Whether or not the restoration caused the page to be created
391 (i.e. it didn't exist before)
392
393 'ArticleUpdateBeforeRedirect': After a page is updated (usually on save), before the user is redirected back to the page
394 &$article: the article
395 &$sectionanchor: The section anchor link (e.g. "#overview" )
396 &$extraq: Extra query parameters which can be added via hooked functions
397
398 'ArticleViewHeader': Before the parser cache is about to be tried for article viewing.
399 &$article: the article
400 &$pcache: whether to try the parser cache or not
401 &$outputDone: whether the output for this page finished or not
402
403 'ArticleViewRedirect': before setting "Redirected from ..." subtitle when follwed an redirect
404 $article: target article (object)
405
406 'AuthPluginSetup': update or replace authentication plugin object ($wgAuth)
407 Gives a chance for an extension to set it programattically to a variable class.
408 &$auth: the $wgAuth object, probably a stub
409
410 'AutoAuthenticate': called to authenticate users on external/environmental means
411 $user: writes user object to this parameter
412
413 'AutopromoteCondition': check autopromote condition for user.
414 $type: condition type
415 $args: arguments
416 $user: user
417 $result: result of checking autopromote condition
418
419 'BadImage': When checking against the bad image list
420 $name: Image name being checked
421 &$bad: Whether or not the image is "bad"
422
423 Change $bad and return false to override. If an image is "bad", it is not
424 rendered inline in wiki pages or galleries in category pages.
425
426 'BeforeGalleryFindFile': before an image is fetched for a gallery
427 &$gallery,: the gallery object
428 &$nt: the image title
429 &$time: image timestamp
430
431 'BeforePageDisplay': Prior to outputting a page
432 $out: OutputPage object
433
434 'BeforeParserFetchTemplateAndtitle': before a template is fetched by Parser
435 &$parser: Parser object
436 &$title: title of the template
437 &$skip: skip this template and link it?
438 &$id: the id of the revision being parsed
439
440 'BeforeParserMakeImageLinkObj': before an image is rendered by Parser
441 &$parser: Parser object
442 &$nt: the image title
443 &$skip: skip this image and link it?
444 &$time: the image timestamp
445
446 'BeforeParserrenderImageGallery': before an image gallery is rendered by Parser
447 &$parser: Parser object
448 &$ig: ImageGallery object
449
450 'BeforeWatchlist': Override watchlist display or add extra SQL clauses.
451 $nondefaults: Assoc array with the following keys:
452 days, hideOwn, hideBots, hideMinor, namespace
453 $wgUser: wgUser.
454 &$hookSql: a string which will be inserted without sanitation into the SQL query
455 used to get the watchlist, at the end of the WHERE part.
456
457 'BlockIp': before an IP address or user is blocked
458 $block: the Block object about to be saved
459 $user: the user _doing_ the block (not the one being blocked)
460
461 'BlockIpComplete': after an IP address or user is blocked
462 $block: the Block object that was saved
463 $user: the user who did the block (not the one being blocked)
464
465 'BookInformation': Before information output on Special:Booksources
466 $isbn: ISBN to show information for
467 $output: OutputPage object in use
468
469 'BrokenLink': Before the HTML is created for a broken (i.e. red) link
470 &$this: Linker instance
471 $nt: the page title
472 $query: the URL query string passed in
473 &$u: the URL of this link
474 &$style: the inline CSS style
475 &$prefix: a prefix prepended to the linked text
476 &$text: the text placed by the user in the wiki-link
477 &$inside: any additional alphanumeric characters placed after the wiki-link,
478 that are made part of the link text
479 &$trail: text placed immediately after the HTML link
480
481 'CategoryPageView': before viewing a categorypage in CategoryPage::view
482 $catpage: CategoryPage instance
483
484 'ChangesListInsertArticleLink': Override or augment link to article in RC list.
485 &$this: ChangesList instance.
486 &$articlelink: HTML of link to article (already filled-in).
487 &$s: HTML of row that is being constructed.
488 &$rc: RecentChange instance.
489 $unpatrolled: Whether or not we are showing unpatrolled changes.
490 $watched: Whether or not the change is watched by the user.
491
492 'ContributionsToolLinks': Change tool links above Special:Contributions
493 $id: User identifier
494 $title: User page title
495 &$tools: Array of tool links
496
497 'CustomEditor': When invoking the page editor
498 $article: Article being edited
499 $user: User performing the edit
500
501 Return true to allow the normal editor to be used, or false
502 if implementing a custom editor, e.g. for a special namespace,
503 etc.
504
505 'DiffViewHeader': called before diff display
506 $diff: DifferenceEngine object that's calling
507 $oldRev: Revision object of the "old" revision (may be null/invalid)
508 $newRev: Revision object of the "new" revision
509
510 'DisplayOldSubtitle': before creating subtitle when browsing old versions of an article
511 $article: article (object) being viewed
512 $oldid: oldid (int) being viewed
513
514 'EditFilter': Perform checks on an edit
515 $editor: Edit form (see includes/EditPage.php)
516 $text: Contents of the edit box
517 $section: Section being edited
518 &$error: Error message to return
519
520 'EditFilterMerged': Post-section-merge edit filter
521 $editor: EditPage instance (object)
522 $text: content of the edit box
523 $error: error message to return
524
525 'EditFormPreloadText': Allows population of the edit form when creating new pages
526 &$text: Text to preload with
527 &$title: Title object representing the page being created
528
529 'EditPage::attemptSave': called before an article is
530 saved, that is before insertNewArticle() is called
531 &$editpage_Obj: the current EditPage object
532
533 'EditPage::showEditForm:fields': allows injection of form field into edit form
534 &$editor: the EditPage instance for reference
535 &$out: an OutputPage instance to write to
536 return value is ignored (should always return true)
537
538 'EditPage::showEditForm:initial': before showing the edit form
539 $editor: EditPage instance (object)
540
541 Return false to halt editing; you'll need to handle error messages, etc. yourself.
542 Alternatively, modifying $error and returning true will cause the contents of $error
543 to be echoed at the top of the edit form as wikitext. Return true without altering
544 $error to allow the edit to proceed.
545
546 'EditPageBeforeEditButtons': allows modifying the edit buttons below the textarea in the edit form
547 &$editpage: The current EditPage object
548 &$buttons: Array of edit buttons "Save", "Preview", "Live", and "Diff"
549
550 'EditSectionLink': Override the return value of Linker::editSectionLink()
551 $skin: Skin rendering the UI
552 $title: Title being linked to
553 $section: Section to link to
554 $link: Default link
555 $result: Result (alter this to override the generated links)
556
557 'EditSectionLinkForOther': Override the return value of Linker::editSectionLinkForOther()
558 $skin: Skin rendering the UI
559 $title: Title being linked to
560 $section: Section to link to
561 $hint: Anchor title/tooltip attributes
562 $link: Default link
563 $result: Result (alter this to override the generated links)
564
565 'EmailConfirmed': When checking that the user's email address is "confirmed"
566 $user: User being checked
567 $confirmed: Whether or not the email address is confirmed
568 This runs before the other checks, such as anonymity and the real check; return
569 true to allow those checks to occur, and false if checking is done.
570
571 'EmailUser': before sending email from one user to another
572 $to: address of receiving user
573 $from: address of sending user
574 $subject: subject of the mail
575 $text: text of the mail
576
577 'EmailUserComplete': after sending email from one user to another
578 $to: address of receiving user
579 $from: address of sending user
580 $subject: subject of the mail
581 $text: text of the mail
582
583 'FetchChangesList': When fetching the ChangesList derivative for a particular user
584 &$user: User the list is being fetched for
585 &$skin: Skin object to be used with the list
586 &$list: List object (defaults to NULL, change it to an object instance and return
587 false override the list derivative used)
588
589 'FileDeleteComplete': When a file is deleted
590 $file: reference to the deleted file
591 $oldimage: in case of the deletion of an old image, the name of the old file
592 $article: in case all revisions of the file are deleted a reference to the article
593 associated with the file.
594 $user: user who performed the deletion
595 $reason: reason
596
597 'FileUpload': When a file upload occurs
598 $file : Image object representing the file that was uploaded
599
600 'FileUndeleteComplete': When a file is undeleted
601 $title: title object to the file
602 $fileVersions: array of undeleted versions. Empty if all versions were restored
603 $user: user who performed the undeletion
604 $reason: reason
605
606 'GetBlockedStatus': after loading blocking status of an user from the database
607 $user: user (object) being checked
608
609 'GetFullURL': modify fully-qualified URLs used in redirects/export/offsite data
610 $title: Title object of page
611 $url: string value as output (out parameter, can modify)
612 $query: query options passed to Title::getFullURL()
613
614 'GetInternalURL': modify fully-qualified URLs used for squid cache purging
615 $title: Title object of page
616 $url: string value as output (out parameter, can modify)
617 $query: query options passed to Title::getInternalURL()
618
619 'GetLinkColours': modify the CSS class of an array of page links
620 $linkcolour_ids: array of prefixed DB keys of the pages linked to, indexed by page_id.
621 &$colours: (output) array of CSS classes, indexed by prefixed DB keys
622
623 'GetLocalURL': modify local URLs as output into page links
624 $title: Title object of page
625 $url: string value as output (out parameter, can modify)
626 $query: query options passed to Title::getLocalURL()
627
628 'getUserPermissionsErrors': Add a permissions error when permissions errors are
629 checked for. Use instead of userCan for most cases. Return false if the
630 user can't do it, and populate $result with the reason in the form of
631 array( messagename, param1, param2, ... ). For consistency, error messages
632 should be plain text with no special coloring, bolding, etc. to show that
633 they're errors; presenting them properly to the user as errors is done by
634 the caller.
635 $title: Title object being checked against
636 $user : Current user object
637 $action: Action being checked
638 $result: User permissions error to add. If none, return true.
639
640 'getUserPermissionsErrorsExpensive': Absolutely the same, but is called only
641 if expensive checks are enabled.
642
643 'ImageOpenShowImageInlineBefore': Call potential extension just before showing
644 the image on an image page
645 $imagePage: ImagePage object ($this)
646 $output: $wgOut
647
648 'ImageBeforeProduceHTML': Called before producing the HTML created by a wiki
649 image insertion. You can skip the default logic entirely by returning
650 false, or just modify a few things using call-by-reference.
651 &$this: Skin object
652 &$title: Title object of the image
653 &$file: File object, or false if it doesn't exist
654 &$frameParams: Various parameters with special meanings; see documentation in
655 includes/Linker.php for Linker::makeImageLink2
656 &$handlerParams: Various parameters with special meanings; see documentation in
657 includes/Linker.php for Linker::makeImageLink2
658 &$time: Timestamp of file in 'YYYYMMDDHHIISS' string form, or false for current
659 &$res: Final HTML output, used if you return false
660
661 'InitPreferencesForm': called at the end of PreferencesForm's constructor
662 $form: the PreferencesForm
663 $request: the web request to initialized from
664
665 'InternalParseBeforeLinks': during Parser's internalParse method before links but
666 after noinclude/includeonly/onlyinclude and other processing.
667 &$this: Parser object
668 &$text: string containing partially parsed text
669 &$this->mStripState: Parser's internal StripState object
670
671 'IsFileCacheable': Override the result of Article::isFileCacheable() (if true)
672 $article: article (object) being checked
673
674 'IsTrustedProxy': Override the result of wfIsTrustedProxy()
675 $ip: IP being check
676 $result: Change this value to override the result of wfIsTrustedProxy()
677
678 'isValidEmailAddr': Override the result of User::isValidEmailAddr(), for ins-
679 tance to return false if the domain name doesn't match your organization
680 $addr: The e-mail address entered by the user
681 &$result: Set this and return false to override the internal checks
682
683 'isValidPassword': Override the result of User::isValidPassword()
684 $password: The password entered by the user
685 &$result: Set this and return false to override the internal checks
686 $user: User the password is being validated for
687
688 'LanguageGetMagic': Use this to define synonyms of magic words depending of the language
689 $magicExtensions: associative array of magic words synonyms
690 $lang: laguage code (string)
691
692 'LanguageGetSpecialPageAliases': Use to define aliases of special pages names depending of the language
693 $specialPageAliases: associative array of magic words synonyms
694 $lang: laguage code (string)
695
696 'LinksUpdate': At the beginning of LinksUpdate::doUpdate() just before the actual update
697 &$linksUpdate: the LinkUpdate object
698
699 'LinksUpdateComplete': At the end of LinksUpdate::doUpdate() when updating has completed
700 &$linksUpdate: the LinkUpdate object
701
702 'LinksUpdateConstructed': At the end of LinksUpdate() is contruction.
703 &$linksUpdate: the LinkUpdate object
704
705 'LoadAllMessages': called by MessageCache::loadAllMessages() to load extensions messages
706
707 'LoadExtensionSchemaUpdates': called by maintenance/updaters.inc when upgrading database schema
708
709 'LoginAuthenticateAudit': a login attempt for a valid user account either succeeded or failed.
710 No return data is accepted; this hook is for auditing only.
711 $user: the User object being authenticated against
712 $password: the password being submitted and found wanting
713 $retval: a LoginForm class constant with authenticateUserData() return value (SUCCESS, WRONG_PASS, etc)
714
715 'LogLine': Processes a single log entry on Special:Log
716 $log_type: string for the type of log entry (e.g. 'move'). Corresponds to logging.log_type
717 database field.
718 $log_action: string for the type of log action (e.g. 'delete', 'block', 'create2'). Corresponds
719 to logging.log_action database field.
720 $title: Title object that corresponds to logging.log_namespace and logging.log_title database fields.
721 $paramArray: Array of parameters that corresponds to logging.log_params field. Note that only $paramArray[0]
722 appears to contain anything.
723 &$comment: string that corresponds to logging.log_comment database field, and which is displayed in the UI.
724 &$revert: string that is displayed in the UI, similar to $comment.
725 $time: timestamp of the log entry (added in 1.12)
726
727 'LogPageValidTypes': action being logged. DEPRECATED: Use $wgLogTypes
728 &$type: array of strings
729
730 'LogPageLogName': name of the logging page(s). DEPRECATED: Use $wgLogNames
731 &$typeText: array of strings
732
733 'LogPageLogHeader': strings used by wfMsg as a header. DEPRECATED: Use $wgLogHeaders
734 &$headerText: array of strings
735
736 'LogPageActionText': strings used by wfMsg as a header. DEPRECATED: Use $wgLogActions
737 &$actionText: array of strings
738
739 'MagicWordMagicWords': When defining new magic word. DEPRECATED: Use LanguageGetMagic hook instead
740 $magicWords: array of strings
741
742 'MagicWordwgVariableIDs': When definig new magic words IDs. DEPRECATED: Use LanguageGetMagic hook instead
743 $variableIDs: array of strings
744
745 'MarkPatrolled': before an edit is marked patrolled
746 $rcid: ID of the revision to be marked patrolled
747 $user: the user (object) marking the revision as patrolled
748 $wcOnlySysopsCanPatrol: config setting indicating whether the user
749 needs to be a sysop in order to mark an edit patrolled
750
751 'MarkPatrolledComplete': after an edit is marked patrolled
752 $rcid: ID of the revision marked as patrolled
753 $user: user (object) who marked the edit patrolled
754 $wcOnlySysopsCanPatrol: config setting indicating whether the user
755 must be a sysop to patrol the edit
756
757 'MathAfterTexvc': after texvc is executed when rendering mathematics
758 $mathRenderer: instance of MathRenderer
759 $errmsg: error message, in HTML (string). Nonempty indicates failure
760 of rendering the formula
761
762 'MediaWikiPerformAction': Override MediaWiki::performAction().
763 Use this to do something completely different, after the basic
764 globals have been set up, but before ordinary actions take place.
765 $output: $wgOut
766 $article: $wgArticle
767 $title: $wgTitle
768 $user: $wgUser
769 $request: $wgRequest
770
771 'MessagesPreLoad': When loading a message from the database
772 $title: title of the message (string)
773 $message: value (string), change it to the message you want to define
774
775 'MonoBookTemplateToolboxEnd': Called by Monobook skin after toolbox links have been rendered (useful for adding more)
776 $tools: array of tools
777
778 'OutputPageBeforeHTML': a page has been processed by the parser and
779 the resulting HTML is about to be displayed.
780 $parserOutput: the parserOutput (object) that corresponds to the page
781 $text: the text that will be displayed, in HTML (string)
782
783 'OutputPageParserOutput': after adding a parserOutput to $wgOut
784 $out: OutputPage instance (object)
785 $parserOutput: parserOutput instance being added in $out
786
787 'PageHistoryBeforeList': When a history page list is about to be constructed.
788 $article: the article that the history is loading for
789
790 'PageHistoryLineEnding' : right before the end <li> is added to a history line
791 $row: the revision row for this line
792 $s: the string representing this parsed line
793
794 'PageRenderingHash': alter the parser cache option hash key
795 A parser extension which depends on user options should install
796 this hook and append its values to the key.
797 $hash: reference to a hash key string which can be modified
798
799 'ParserAfterStrip': Same as ParserBeforeStrip
800
801 'ParserAfterTidy': Called after Parser::tidy() in Parser::parse()
802 $parser: Parser object being used
803 $text: text that'll be returned
804
805 'ParserBeforeInternalParse': called at the beginning of Parser::internalParse()
806 $parser: Parser object
807 $text: text to parse
808 $stripState: StripState instance being used
809
810 'ParserBeforeStrip': Called at start of parsing time (no more strip, deprecated ?)
811 $parser: parser object
812 $text: text being parsed
813 $stripState: stripState used (object)
814
815 'ParserBeforeTidy': called before tidy and custom tags replacements
816 $parser: Parser object being used
817 $text: actual text
818
819 'ParserClearState': called at the end of Parser::clearState()
820 $parser: Parser object being cleared
821
822 'ParserFirstCallInit': called when the parser initialises for the first time
823 &$parser: Parser object being cleared
824
825 'ParserGetVariableValueSwitch': called when the parser need the value of a custom magic word
826 $parser: Parser object
827 $varCache: array to store the value in case of multiples calls of the same magic word
828 $index: index (string) of the magic
829 $ret: value of the magic word (the hook should set it)
830
831 'ParserGetVariableValueTs': use this to change the value of the time for the {{LOCAL...}} magic word
832 $parser: Parser object
833 $time: actual time (timestamp)
834
835 'ParserGetVariableValueVarCache': use this to change the value of the variable cache or return false to not use it
836 $parser: Parser object
837 $varCache: varaiable cache (array)
838
839 'ParserLimitReport': called at the end of Parser:parse() when the parser will include comments about size of the text parsed
840 $parser: Parser object
841 $limitReport: text that will be included (without comment tags)
842
843 'ParserMakeImageParams': Called before the parser make an image link, use this to modify the parameters of the image.
844 $title: title object representing the file
845 $file: file object that will be used to create the image
846 &$params: 2-D array of parameters
847
848 'ParserTestParser': called when creating a new instance of Parser in maintenance/parserTests.inc
849 $parser: Parser object created
850
851 'ParserTestTables': alter the list of tables to duplicate when parser tests
852 are run. Use when page save hooks require the presence of custom tables
853 to ensure that tests continue to run properly.
854 &$tables: array of table names
855
856 'PersonalUrls': Alter the user-specific navigation links (e.g. "my page,
857 my talk page, my contributions" etc).
858
859 &$personal_urls: Array of link specifiers (see SkinTemplate.php)
860 &$title: Title object representing the current page
861
862 'PingLimiter': Allows extensions to override the results of User::pingLimiter()
863 &$user : User performing the action
864 $action : Action being performed
865 &$result : Whether or not the action should be prevented
866 Change $result and return false to give a definitive answer, otherwise
867 the built-in rate limiting checks are used, if enabled.
868
869 'PreferencesUserInformationPanel': Add HTML bits to user information list in preferences form
870 $form : PreferencesForm object
871 &$html : HTML to append to
872
873 'PrefixSearchBackend': Override the title prefix search used for OpenSearch and
874 AJAX search suggestions. Put results into &$results outparam and return false.
875 $ns : int namespace key to search in
876 $search : search term (not guaranteed to be conveniently normalized)
877 $limit : maximum number of results to return
878 &$results : out param: array of page names (strings)
879
880 'PrefsEmailAudit': called when user changes his email address
881 $user: User (object) changing his email address
882 $oldaddr: old email address (string)
883 $newaddr: new email address (string)
884
885 'PrefsPasswordAudit': called when user changes his password
886 $user: User (object) changing his passoword
887 $newPass: new password
888 $error: error (string) 'badretype', 'wrongpassword', 'error' or 'success'
889
890 'RawPageViewBeforeOutput': Right before the text is blown out in action=raw
891 &$obj: RawPage object
892 &$text: The text that's going to be the output
893
894 'RecentChange_save': called at the end of RecenChange::save()
895 $recentChange: RecentChange object
896
897 'RenderPreferencesForm': called at the end of PreferencesForm::mainPrefsForm
898 $form: the PreferencesForm
899 $out: output page to render to, probably $wgOut
900
901 'ResetPreferences': called at the end of PreferencesForm::resetPrefs
902 $form: the PreferencesForm
903 $user: the User object to load preferences from
904
905 'SavePreferences': called at the end of PreferencesForm::savePreferences;
906 returning false prevents the preferences from being saved.
907 $form: the PreferencesForm
908 $user: the User object to save preferences to
909 $message: change this to set an error message (ignored if the hook does notreturn fals)
910
911 'SearchUpdate': Prior to search update completion
912 $id : Page id
913 $namespace : Page namespace
914 $title : Page title
915 $text : Current text being indexed
916
917 'SearchGetNearMatch': An extra chance for exact-title-matches in "go" searches
918 $term : Search term string
919 &$title : Outparam; set to $title object and return false for a match
920
921 'ShowRawCssJs': Customise the output of raw CSS and JavaScript in page views
922 $text: Text being shown
923 $title: Title of the custom script/stylesheet page
924 $output: Current OutputPage object
925
926 'SiteNoticeBefore': Before the sitenotice/anonnotice is composed
927 &$siteNotice: HTML returned as the sitenotice
928 Return true to allow the normal method of notice selection/rendering to work,
929 or change the value of $siteNotice and return false to alter it.
930
931 'SiteNoticeAfter': After the sitenotice/anonnotice is composed
932 &$siteNotice: HTML sitenotice
933 Alter the contents of $siteNotice to add to/alter the sitenotice/anonnotice.
934
935 'SkinAfterBottomScripts': At the end of Skin::bottomScripts()
936 $skin: Skin object
937 &$text: bottomScripts Text
938 Append to $text to add additional text/scripts after the stock bottom scripts.
939
940 'SkinSubPageSubtitle': At the beginning of Skin::subPageSubtitle()
941 $skin: Skin object
942 &$subpages: Subpage links HTML
943 If false is returned $subpages will be used instead of the HTML subPageSubtitle() generates.
944 If true is returned, $subpages will be ignored and the rest of subPageSubtitle() will run.
945
946 'SkinTemplateBuildContentActionUrlsAfterSpecialPage': after the single tab when showing a special page
947 $sktemplate: SkinTemplate object
948 $content_actions: array of tabs
949
950 'SkinTemplateBuildNavUrlsNav_urlsAfterPermalink': after creating the "permanent link" tab
951 $sktemplate: SkinTemplate object
952 $nav_urls: array of tabs
953
954 'SkinTemplateContentActions': Alter the "content action" links in SkinTemplates
955 &$content_actions: Content actions
956 [See http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/examples/Content_action.php
957 for an example]
958
959 'SkinTemplateOutputPageBeforeExec': Before SkinTemplate::outputPage() starts page output
960 &$sktemplate: SkinTemplate object
961 &$tpl: Template engine object
962
963 'SkinTemplatePreventOtherActiveTabs': use this to prevent showing active tabs
964 $sktemplate: SkinTemplate object
965 $res: set to true to prevent active tabs
966
967 'SkinTemplateSetupPageCss': use this to provide per-page CSS
968 $out: Css to return
969
970 'SkinTemplateTabAction': Override SkinTemplate::tabAction().
971 You can either create your own array, or alter the parameters for the normal one.
972 &$this: The SkinTemplate instance.
973 $title: Title instance for the page.
974 $message: Visible label of tab.
975 $selected: Whether this is a selected tab.
976 $checkEdit: Whether or not the action=edit query should be added if appropriate.
977 &$classes: Array of CSS classes to apply.
978 &$query: Query string to add to link.
979 &$text: Link text.
980 &$result: Complete assoc. array if you want to return true.
981
982 'SkinTemplateTabs': called when finished to build the actions tabs
983 $sktemplate: SkinTemplate object
984 $content_actions: array of tabs
985
986 'SpecialContributionsBeforeMainOutput': Before the form on Special:Contributions
987 $id: User identifier
988
989 'SpecialListusersDefaultQuery': called right before the end of UsersPager::getDefaultQuery()
990 $pager: The UsersPager instance
991 $query: The query array to be returned
992
993 'SpecialListusersFormatRow': called right before the end of UsersPager::formatRow()
994 $item: HTML to be returned. Will be wrapped in <li></li> after the hook finishes
995 $row: Database row object
996
997 'SpecialListusersHeader': called before closing the <fieldset> in UsersPager::getPageHeader()
998 $pager: The UsersPager instance
999 $out: The header HTML
1000
1001 'SpecialListusersHeaderForm': called before adding the submit button in UsersPager::getPageHeader()
1002 $pager: The UsersPager instance
1003 $out: The header HTML
1004
1005 'SpecialListusersQueryInfo': called right before the end of UsersPager::getQueryInfo()
1006 $pager: The UsersPager instance
1007 $query: The query array to be returned
1008
1009 'SpecialMovepageAfterMove': called after moving a page
1010 $movePage: MovePageForm object
1011 $oldTitle: old title (object)
1012 $newTitle: new title (object)
1013
1014 'SpecialPageExecuteAfterPage': called after executing a special page
1015 Warning: Not all the special pages call this hook
1016 $specialPage: SpecialPage object
1017 $par: paramter passed to the special page (string)
1018 $funct: function called to execute the special page
1019
1020 'SpecialPageExecuteBeforeHeader': called before setting the header text of the special page
1021 Warning: Not all the special pages call this hook
1022 $specialPage: SpecialPage object
1023 $par: paramter passed to the special page (string)
1024 $funct: function called to execute the special page
1025
1026 'SpecialPageExecuteBeforePage': called after setting the special page header text but before the main execution
1027 Warning: Not all the special pages call this hook
1028 $specialPage: SpecialPage object
1029 $par: paramter passed to the special page (string)
1030 $funct: function called to execute the special page
1031
1032 'SpecialPage_initList': called when setting up SpecialPage::$mList, use this hook to remove a core special page
1033 $list: list (array) of core special pages
1034
1035 'SpecialSearchNogomatch': called when user clicked the "Go" button but the target doesn't exist
1036 $title: title object generated from the text entred by the user
1037
1038 'SpecialSearchResults': called before search result display when there are matches
1039 $term: string of search term
1040 $titleMatches: empty or SearchResultSet object
1041 $textMatches: empty or SearchResultSet object
1042
1043 'SpecialSearchNoResults': called before search result display when there are no matches
1044 $term: string of search term
1045
1046 'SpecialVersionExtensionTypes': called when generating the extensions credits, use this to change the tables headers
1047 $extTypes: associative array of extensions types
1048
1049 'TitleMoveComplete': after moving an article (title)
1050 $old: old title
1051 $nt: new title
1052 $user: user who did the move
1053 $pageid: database ID of the page that's been moved
1054 $redirid: database ID of the created redirect
1055
1056 'UndeleteShowRevision': called when showing a revision in Special:Undelete
1057 $title: title object related to the revision
1058 $rev: revision (object) that will be viewed
1059
1060 'UnknownAction': An unknown "action" has occured (useful for defining
1061 your own actions)
1062 $action: action name
1063 $article: article "acted on"
1064
1065 'UnwatchArticle': before a watch is removed from an article
1066 $user: user watching
1067 $article: article object to be removed
1068
1069 'UnwatchArticle': after a watch is removed from an article
1070 $user: user that was watching
1071 $article: article object removed
1072
1073 'UnwatchArticleComplete': after a watch is removed from an article
1074 $user: user that watched
1075 $article: article object that was watched
1076
1077 'UploadForm:initial': before the upload form is generated
1078 $form: UploadForm object
1079 You might set the member-variables $uploadFormTextTop and
1080 $uploadFormTextAfterSummary to inject text (HTML) either before
1081 or after the editform.
1082
1083 'UploadForm:BeforeProcessing': at the beginning of processUpload()
1084 $form: UploadForm object
1085 Lets you poke at member variables like $mUploadDescription before the
1086 file is saved.
1087
1088 'UploadVerification': additional chances to reject an uploaded file
1089 string $saveName: destination file name
1090 string $tempName: filesystem path to the temporary file for checks
1091 string &$error: output: HTML error to show if upload canceled by returning false
1092
1093 'UploadComplete': Upon completion of a file upload
1094 $uploadForm: Upload form object. File can be accessed by $uploadForm->mLocalFile.
1095
1096 'userCan': To interrupt/advise the "user can do X to Y article" check.
1097 If you want to display an error message, try getUserPermissionsErrors.
1098 $title: Title object being checked against
1099 $user : Current user object
1100 $action: Action being checked
1101 $result: Pointer to result returned if hook returns false. If null is returned,
1102 userCan checks are continued by internal code.
1103
1104 'UserCanSendEmail': To override User::canSendEmail() permission check
1105 $user: User (object) whose permission is being checked
1106 &$canSend: bool set on input, can override on output
1107
1108
1109 'UserClearNewTalkNotification': called when clearing the "You have new messages!" message, return false to not delete it
1110 $user: User (object) that'll clear the message
1111
1112 'UserCreateForm': change to manipulate the login form
1113 $template: SimpleTemplate instance for the form
1114
1115 'UserEffectiveGroups': Called in User::getEffectiveGroups()
1116 $user: User to get groups for
1117 &$groups: Current effective groups
1118
1119 'UserLoginComplete': after a user has logged in
1120 $user: the user object that was created on login
1121
1122 'UserLoginForm': change to manipulate the login form
1123 $template: SimpleTemplate instance for the form
1124
1125 'UserLogout': before a user logs out
1126 $user: the user object that is about to be logged out
1127
1128 'UserLogoutComplete': after a user has logged out
1129 $user: the user object _after_ logout (won't have name, ID, etc.)
1130
1131 'UserRights': After a user's group memberships are changed
1132 $user : User object that was changed
1133 $add : Array of strings corresponding to groups added
1134 $remove: Array of strings corresponding to groups removed
1135
1136 'UserGetImplicitGroups': Called in User::getImplicitGroups()
1137 &$groups: List of implicit (automatically-assigned) groups
1138
1139 'UserGetRights': Called in User::getRights()
1140 $user: User to get rights for
1141 &$rights: Current rights
1142
1143 'UserRetrieveNewTalks': called when retrieving "You have new messages!" message(s)
1144 $user: user retrieving new talks messages
1145 $talks: array of new talks page(s)
1146
1147 'UserToggles': called when initialising User::$mToggles, use this to add new toggles
1148 $toggles: array of toggles to add
1149
1150 'WatchArticle': before a watch is added to an article
1151 $user: user that will watch
1152 $article: article object to be watched
1153
1154 'WatchArticleComplete': after a watch is added to an article
1155 $user: user that watched
1156 $article: article object watched
1157
1158 'wgQueryPages': called when initialising $wgQueryPages, use this to add new query pages to be updated with maintenance/updateSpecialPages.php
1159 $query: $wgQueryPages itself
1160
1161 More hooks might be available but undocumented, you can execute
1162 ./maintenance/findhooks.php to find hidden one.