Manual:Defines.php

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MediaWiki file: Defines.php
Location:	includes/
Source code:	master • 1.42.3 • 1.41.4 • 1.39.10
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Defines.php contains "a few constants that might be needed during LocalSettings.php . Note: these constants must all be resolvable at compile time by HipHop, since this file will not be executed during request startup for a compiled MediaWiki." Among the constants are version constants for the benefit of extensions; Unicode normalisation related constants; namespace constants, including those that provide support for $wgResourceModules ; protocol constants for wfExpandUrl; and flags for Parser::replaceLinkHolders.

Constants

Database related constants
Valid database indexes
Operation-based indexes
Virtual namespaces ; don't appear in the page database
Real namespaces
Cache type
Media types
Antivirus result codes, for use in $wgAntivirusSetup
Anti-lock flags
Date format selectors; used in user preference storage and by Language ::date() and co.
RecentChange type identifiers
Article edit flags
Flags for Database ::makeList()
Unicode and normalisation related
Hook support constants
Support for $wgResourceModules
Allowed values for Parser ::$mOutputType
Flags for Parser::setFunctionHook
Flags for Parser::replaceLinkHolders
Autopromote conditions
Protocol constants for wfExpandUrl()
Content model ids, used by Content and ContentHandler .
Content formats, used by Content and ContentHandler.

Flags

In some cases, bitfields are used for flags. Examples are as follows:

define( 'DBO_DEBUG', 1 );
define( 'DBO_NOBUFFER', 2 );
define( 'DBO_IGNORE', 4 );
define( 'DBO_TRX', 8 ); // automatically start transaction on first query
define( 'DBO_DEFAULT', 16 );
define( 'DBO_PERSISTENT', 32 );
define( 'DBO_SYSDBA', 64 ); // for oracle maintenance
define( 'DBO_DDLMODE', 128 ); // when using schema files: mostly for Oracle
define( 'DBO_SSL', 256 );
define( 'DBO_COMPRESS', 512 );
define( 'ALF_PRELOAD_LINKS', 1 ); // unused
define( 'ALF_PRELOAD_EXISTENCE', 2 ); // unused
define( 'ALF_NO_LINK_LOCK', 4 );
define( 'ALF_NO_BLOCK_LOCK', 8 );
define( 'EDIT_NEW', 1 );
define( 'EDIT_UPDATE', 2 );
define( 'EDIT_MINOR', 4 );
define( 'EDIT_SUPPRESS_RC', 8 );
define( 'EDIT_FORCE_BOT', 16 );
define( 'EDIT_DEFER_UPDATES', 32 );
define( 'EDIT_AUTOSUMMARY', 64 );

These involve the use of bitwise operators. E.g. if you want to set the EDIT_MINOR flag in $flags to true:

$flags |= EDIT_MINOR;

If you want to set both the EDIT_MINOR and EDIT_NEW flags in $flags to true, and all the other flags in $flags to false:

$flags = EDIT_MINOR | EDIT_NEW;

If you want to set the EDIT_MINOR flag in $flags to false:

$flags &= ~EDIT_MINOR;

If you want $isminor to only be true if the EDIT_MINOR flag is set to true in $flags:

$isminor = ( $flags & EDIT_MINOR );