Extension:PhpTags

The PhpTags extension implements the concept of magic-expr>Special:MyLanguage/Extension:PhpTags/Magic expressions|Magic expressions with [http://www.php.net/manual/en/langref.php PHP language] syntax that allows you to create and use compatible but not monolithic MediaWiki extensions, which greatly increases the convenience, flexibility and phptags-perf>Extension:PhpTags/Performance|performance. magic-expr>Special:MyLanguage/Extension:PhpTags/Magic expressions|More ...

Description
The PhpTags extension has its own the runtime environment PHP code which supports scalar types, arrays, variables, operators, control structures. It also supports constants, functions and objects but it does not implement any of them except for some phpt-functions>Special:MyLanguage/Extension:PhpTags/Functions|language constructs.

When using a function, object or constant PhpTags calls corresponding extension. Therefore, a set of constants, functions, objects and actions that they produce only depend on additionally installed compatible extensions which can be found cat-ext-php>:Category:PhpTags extensions|here.

PhpTags designed so to be as similar to native PHP, therefore you should have the illusion of direct execution PHP code although this never happens.

Usage
The code should be placed between the tags  and. It can be located in any namespace if it is allowed by the variable.

It will display:

 Hello world!!!

Demo

Optional installation

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Additional installation
The PhpTags extension (core) implements magic-expr>Special:MyLanguage/Extension:PhpTags/Magic expressions|magic expressions only and not, for instance, any PHP function.

For additional features such as functions, you can install cat-ext-php>:Category:PhpTags extensions|additional extensions which are compatible with the magic expressions of the PhpTags extension.

The main extensions are:


 * tags-wiki>Special:MyLanguage/Extension:PhpTags Wiki|PhpTags Wiki - lets you query various data from MediaWiki core
 * tags-func>Special:MyLanguage/Extension:PhpTags Functions|PhpTags Functions - contains many functions for data processing
 * tags-widget>Special:MyLanguage/Extension:PhpTags Widgets|PhpTags Widgets - displays the data in different ways

Others are Extension:PhpTags SMW and Extension:PhpTags Storage.