Manual:Linker.php

MediaWiki file: Linker.php
Location:	includes/linker/ (includes/Linker/ in 1.46 or later)
Source code:	master • 1.45.1 • 1.44.3 • 1.43.6
Classes:	MediaWiki\Linker\Linker

The Linker class contains methods for creating links and related items.

Details

Linker.php splits off some of the internal bits from Skin.php . Linker's functions are used primarily for page content such as links, embedded images, table of contents.

Previous class name before MediaWiki 1.40: MovePageForm (without namespace).

Public methods

Include:

• makeSelfLinkObj()
• getInvalidTitleDescription()

Methods for images, media files

• makeExternalImage()
• makeImageLink()
• getImageLinkMTOParams()
• makeThumbLinkObj()
• makeThumbLink2()
• processResponsiveImages()
• makeBrokenImageLinkObj()
• makeMediaLinkObj()
• makeMediaLinkFile()

TOC

• tocIndent()
• tocUnindent()
• tocLine()
• tocLineEnd()
• tocList()
• generateTOC()

Rollback links

• generateRollback()
• getRollbackEditCount()
• buildRollbackLink()

Other

• specialLink()
• makeExternalLink()
• userLink()
• userToolLinks()
• userToolLinksRedContribs()
• userTalkLink()
• blockLink()
• emailLink()
• revUserLink()
• getRevisionDeletedClass()
• revUserTools()
• expandLocalLinks()
• normalizeSubpageLink()
• formatRevisionSize()
• makeHeadline()
• splitTrail()
• formatHiddenCategories()
• titleAttrib()
• accesskey()
• getRevDeleteLink()
• revDeleteLink()
• revDeleteLinkDisabled()
• tooltipAndAccesskeyAttribs()
• tooltip()

See also

• Manual:LinkRenderer.php. Several methods - link(), linkKnown(), normaliseSpecialPage, etc. - are deprecated in favour of using LinkRenderer.
• Manual:CommentFormatter.php. Another class that has adopted some of Linker's methods.