使用全局变量在两个函数之间传递字符串的问题

Question

I'm trying to pass $old from getOldText to reEdit with globals, but its not working. I can't call getOldText from inside reEdit, because by the time that occurs the old text would have been overwritten by the edit.

$old = "INITIAL";
function reEdit() {
    global $old;
            //removed code creating article object to simplify
    $new = $article->getRawText();
    $article->doEdit( "$new <-new    old -> $old");  //PROBLEM HERE, returns as INITIAL
    return true;
}

function getOldText() {
    global $old;
            //removed code creating article object to simplify
    $old = $article->getRawText();
    return true;
}

$wgHooks['EditFormInitialText'][] = array('getOldText');
$wgHooks['ArticleSaveComplete'][] = array('reEdit');

The problem is in the line indicated - $old is not passed to it despite being global.

The $wgHooks are MediaWiki code that call my functions when an article is starting to be edited and saved, respectively. For those who are familiar with mediawiki code, I'm just trying to get the text from before an edit was performed.

Answer 1

The reason your global variable is not persisting the value is because your two functions are not both being run in the same HTTP request. EditFormInitialText is called when the edit form is being generated, and may not actually be run at all in some cases. ArticleSaveComplete is called on a later submission, when the new version of the article is actually finished being saved.

You may be able to do what you are wanting to do with the ArticleSave hook instead of EditFormInitialText.