Manual:Article.php

The  class handles the presentation of and interaction with MediaWiki pages and their history. It is closely related to the WikiPage class, which provides the model object for pages.

This file contains e.g. one version of function  for viewing a page, called from   (another version is in  ). This function fetches the wikitext  of the page from the database using functions ,   and  , and assigns this to. After that it calls function  to process.

Creating a new Article object
To instantiate, call one of the static factory methods:


 *  , where   is an article id (which is the same as a ).


 * : creates an Article object of the appropriate class for the given title.


 * : creates an Article object of the appropriate class for the given page.

Methods

 * : get the text of this revision. This function has side effects. Do not use this function if you only want the real revision text if any.


 * : (since 1.18): gets the context this Article is executed in.


 * : gets the oldid of the article that is to be shown, or 0 for the current revision.


 * (since 1.19): gets the WikiPage object of this instance.


 * : gets the options>Special:MyLanguage/Manual:ParserOptions.php|parser options suitable for rendering the primary article wikitext.


 * : a lightweight method to get the parser output for a page, checking the parser cache and so on. It doesn't consider most of the stuff that  is forced to consider.


 * : gets the rev ID used on page views.


 * (since 1.19): get the fetched Revision object depending on request parameters or null on failure.


 * : gets the robot policy to be used for the current view.  is a string containing the action= GET parameter and.


 * : gets the title>Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Title.php|Title associated with this page.


 * : returns true if the currently-referenced revision is the current edit to this page (and it exists).


 * : returns true if the page can be cached.


 * : this method handles the (default) action of viewing a page. Actions (like 'view', 'revert', 'delete', etc) are handled by [https://doc.wikimedia.org/mediawiki-core/master/php/classAction.html Action] subclasses. The  method of the ViewAction calls   to do the actual work.

See https://doc.wikimedia.org/mediawiki-core/master/php/classArticle.html for a complete lists of methods.

hooks>Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Hooks|Hooks
Hooks called from this file are listed in the  category.