Last modified: 2010-05-15 15:56:39 UTC
I've written some extensions which as part of their output return links to other pages on my site. I do this by building up the text for the link using the normal wiki syntac and then pass the resulting string through the parser: $o.= $wgOut->parse("[[Pubs:".$data_item["page"]."|".$data_item["name"]."]]",false); Under 1.5.5 links created in such a way were picked up when the page containing the extension was edited and were included in the pagelinks table (and thus in the Special:Mostlinked page). Under 1.6.6 this is no longer the case. The pages display perfectly and the links work but the pagelinks table is not updated.
Run it through the parser object you've been passed, so the links get kept. See Cite.php for examples.
This is the Parser object that was introduced at 1.6 I take it? So basically anything written for 1.5 (which didn't get the parser object passed) will need re-writing?
A third parameter; the reference to the current parser, was added to parser hook rendering functions as of 1.5.8. Extensions often need rewriting to reflect changes to the branch(es) they intend to support.
