Extension:MaintenanceShell

MaintenanceShell provides access to the Maintenance scripts via a Special Page.

Configuration parameters

 * $wgMaintenanceShellPath: By default the extension lists maintenance scripts of MediaWiki core. Change this path to a different directory if you'd like to list different scripts instead (of a certain extension for example).

User rights

 * : This right (for security reasons not assigned to any group by default) grants the right to use.

Archive
This is the change log from before this extension was imported to Git (see commit log for changes made after the Git migration).

You can download these from the tags page.

- Use in_array on the directory scan instead of sanitising $script and doing file_exists. - Catch the output of the maintenance script with AJAX and output it as a text node instead of echo'ing it raw unescaped between  and  , which can cause html escape issues with the output of the maintenance script.
 * 0.4.0
 * Fix various security issues

- i18n messages - user tokens - user permissions
 * Phase out hacks in main php file, in favour of using regular MediaWiki interfaces for:

- Visual layout and creation of HTML output - User token handling - Input validation - User block status, rights and permissions checking - Simple drop down menu instead of  of  links.
 * Use FormSpecialPage to automatically take care of:


 * Use ResourceLoader for delivery of javascript/css


 * Implement basic parser for the cli arguments instead of the manual regexing, also adding unit tests for many edge cases that the old regex didn't support.

To run: $ cd mw/core/tests/phpunit; $ php phpunit.php ../../extensions/MaintenanceShell/;

- Removed obsolete $wgMaintenanceShellLang - Renamed $maintenance_path to $wgMaintenanceShellPath
 * Config changes:


 * Cleaned up directory structure and file naming to latest MediaWiki extension recommendations and coding style conventions.


 * 0.3.2
 * Native new lines.
 * Consistent coding style regarding curly braces, spaces and quotes.
 * Newline at EOF.


 * v0.3.1
 * Fixed a small bug with the exit callback function introduced in 0.3.0.


 * v0.3.0
 * Fixed XSS and CSRF vulnerabilities.


 * v0.2.4
 * Fixed IE related bug.


 * v0.2.3
 * Moved all strings to the language file to allow for localization.
 * Includes German language localization.
 * Fixed some minor bugs.


 * v0.2.2
 * Included support for double quote marks ("") which allow for parameters with spaces as well as parameters with null values.
 * Added a few links to relevant info on the maintenance shell page.


 * v0.2.1
 * Fixed some minor bugs.
 * Added message notifying user when MaintenanceShell is incorrectly configured.


 * v0.2.0
 * Replaced buggy and annoying password system with Mediawiki based authentication.
 * Changed look of interface slightly.


 * v0.1.0
 * First public release.