docs/linkcache.txt

   1 linkcache.txt
   2
   3 The LinkCache class maintains a list of article titles and the information about
   4 whether or not the article exists in the database. This is used to mark up links
   5 when displaying a page. If the same link appears more than once on any page,
   6 then it only has to be looked up once. In most cases, link lookups are done in
   7 batches with the LinkBatch class, or the equivalent in Parser::replaceLinkHolders(),
   8 so the link cache is mostly useful for short snippets of parsed text (such as
   9 the site notice), and for links in the navigation areas of the skin.
  10
  11 The link cache was formerly used to track links used in a document for the
  12 purposes of updating the link tables. This application is now deprecated.
  13
  14 To create a batch, you can use the following code:
  15
  16 $pages = [ 'Main Page', 'Project:Help', /* ... */ ];
  17 $titles = [];
  18
  19 foreach( $pages as $page ){
  20         $titles[] = Title::newFromText( $page );
  21 }
  22
  23 $batch = new LinkBatch( $titles );
  24 $batch->execute();