Manual:Eval.php

eval.php is a maintenance script that is located in the maintenance directory that you can use to play live with MediaWiki objects and functions.

MediaWiki classes are automatically autoloaded:

Some debugging is also possible:

 $ php maintenance/eval.php --d 3 > print wfMessage("Recentchanges")->text; Unstubbing $wgLang on call of $wgLang::getCode from MessageCache::get Connecting to localhost minitest... Profiler::instance called with bogus $wgProfiler setting, falling back to ProfilerStub for safety IP: 127.0.0.1 Query minitest (1) (slave): SET /* DatabasePostgres::open 127.0.0.1 */ client_encoding='UTF8' Query minitest (2) (slave): SET /* DatabasePostgres::open 127.0.0.1 */ datestyle = 'ISO, YMD' Query minitest (3) (slave): SET /* DatabasePostgres::open 127.0.0.1 */ timezone = 'GMT' Query minitest (4) (slave): SET /* DatabasePostgres::open 127.0.0.1 */ standard_conforming_strings = on Query minitest (5) (slave): BEGIN Transaction state changed from IDLE -> TRANS Query minitest (6) (slave): SELECT /* DatabasePostgres::schemaExists 127.0.0.1 */ 1  FROM "pg_catalog"."pg_namespace"  WHERE nspname = 'mediawiki'  LIMIT 1 Query minitest (7) (slave): SELECT /* DatabasePostgres::getSchemas 127.0.0.1 */ current_schemas(false) Query minitest (8) (slave): SHOW /* DatabasePostgres::getSearchPath 127.0.0.1 */ search_path Query minitest (9) (slave): SET /* 127.0.0.1 */ search_path = "mediawiki", "$user", public Schema "mediawiki" added to the search path Query minitest (10) (slave): COMMIT Transaction state changed from TRANS -> IDLE Connected to localhost minitest. Query minitest (11) (slave): SELECT /* LCStore_DB::get 127.0.0.1 */ lc_value  FROM "l10n_cache"  WHERE lc_lang = 'en' AND lc_key = 'deps'  LIMIT 1 Query minitest (12) (slave): SELECT /* LCStore_DB::get 127.0.0.1 */ lc_value  FROM "l10n_cache"  WHERE lc_lang = 'en' AND lc_key = 'list'  LIMIT 1 Query minitest (13) (slave): SELECT /* LCStore_DB::get 127.0.0.1 */ lc_value  FROM "l10n_cache"  WHERE lc_lang = 'en' AND lc_key = 'preload'  LIMIT 1 Query minitest (14) (slave): SELECT /* LCStore_DB::get 127.0.0.1 */ lc_value  FROM "l10n_cache"  WHERE lc_lang = 'en' AND lc_key = 'preload'  LIMIT 1 Connecting to localhost minitest... Query minitest (15) (slave): SET /* DatabasePostgres::open 127.0.0.1 */ client_encoding='UTF8' Query minitest (16) (slave): SET /* DatabasePostgres::open 127.0.0.1 */ datestyle = 'ISO, YMD' Query minitest (17) (slave): SET /* DatabasePostgres::open 127.0.0.1 */ timezone = 'GMT' Query minitest (18) (slave): SET /* DatabasePostgres::open 127.0.0.1 */ standard_conforming_strings = on Query minitest (19) (slave): BEGIN Transaction state changed from IDLE -> TRANS Query minitest (20) (slave): SELECT /* DatabasePostgres::schemaExists 127.0.0.1 */ 1  FROM "pg_catalog"."pg_namespace"  WHERE nspname = 'mediawiki'  LIMIT 1 Query minitest (21) (slave): SELECT /* DatabasePostgres::getSchemas 127.0.0.1 */ current_schemas(false) Schema "mediawiki" already in the search path Query minitest (22) (slave): COMMIT Transaction state changed from TRANS -> IDLE Connected to localhost minitest. Query minitest (23) (slave): SELECT /* SqlBagOStuff::get 127.0.0.1 */ value,exptime  FROM "objectcache"  WHERE keyname = 'minitest:messages:en'  LIMIT 1 MessageCache::load: Loading en... got from global cache Recent changes >