User:Barrylb/Fix for ampersand in titles

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Fix for ampersand in titles Release status: unknown
Implementation	User interface
Description	When you are using Apache mod_rewrite to make friendly URLS it screws up ampersands in titles. If you do not have the ability to patch Apache like Wikipedia's solution, try my solution which modifies the MediaWiki code to extract the title from the $_SERVER variable.
Author(s)	Barrylb
MediaWiki	1.6.7
License	No license specified
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When you are using Apache mod_rewrite to make friendly URLS it screws up ampersands in titles. If you do not have the ability to patch Apache like Wikipedia's solution, try my solution which modifies the MediaWiki code to extract the title from the $_SERVER variable. Tested and working on 1.6.7.

Modify includes/WebRequest.php - function WebRequest() - put the following after global $wgUsePathInfo;:

  global $wgArticlePath;
  if (strpos($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'], 'index.php') === false) {
    $articlePathPart =  str_replace('$1','',$wgArticlePath);
    $_GET['title'] = $_REQUEST['title'] = str_replace($articlePathPart, '', $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']); 
  }

Barrylb 19:37, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

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