New subject: [Mediawiki-l] Touching a page programmatically?

19 Nov 2010

I want to "touch" an article by performing an empty edit, as if someone clicked
"Edit" followed by "Save Page". Does anyone know why this code works
sometimes and has no effect other times?

function touch($page) {
    $title = Title::newFromText($page);
    if ($title) {
      $article = new Article($title);
      return $article->doEdit($article->getContent(),
                              '',
                              EDIT_UPDATE);
}

Thanks,
DanB