I'm playing with extensions, but am having trouble seeing the results.
How can I mark an article as "dirty" in an extension, so it will
refresh every time?
Here's my extension, using the Unix fortune(6) command, which returns a
random fortune each time, but when refreshed in a browser, I get the
same one back each time. When I click "edit," I get new results, but
when I refresh my browser, I do not. I even turned debugging on in the
browser and made sure the browser cache was cleared. (It's taking
enough time; it's obviously doing SOMETHING on the server.)
Another odd thing happens: if I use system() or passthru(), the fortune
DOES refresh, but it prints at the top of the window, rather than
inside the content area. When I tried shell_exec(), it puts the same
old fortune in the content area each time!
extensions/Fortune.php
<?php
$wgExtensionFunctions[] = 'wfFortune';
function wfFortune() {
global $wgParser;
$wgParser->setHook('fortune', 'renderFortune');
}
function renderFortune($input) {
$output = "<p><i>";
$output .= shell_exec('/sw/bin/fortune');
$output .= '</i></p>';
return $output;
}
?>
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