3 * This is the main web entry point for MediaWiki.
5 * If you are reading this in your web browser, your server is probably
6 * not configured correctly to run PHP applications!
8 * See the README, INSTALL, and UPGRADE files for basic setup instructions
9 * and pointers to the online documentation.
11 * http://www.mediawiki.org/
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16 * Tim Starling, Erik Möller, Gabriel Wicke, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason,
17 * Niklas Laxström, Domas Mituzas, Rob Church, Yuri Astrakhan, Aryeh Gregor,
18 * Aaron Schulz, Andrew Garrett, Raimond Spekking, Alexandre Emsenhuber
19 * Siebrand Mazeland, Chad Horohoe, Roan Kattouw and others.
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39 # Bail on old versions of PHP. Pretty much every other file in the codebase
40 # has structures (try/catch, foo()->bar(), etc etc) which throw parse errors in
41 # PHP 4. Setup.php and ObjectCache.php have structures invalid in PHP 5.0 and
43 if ( !function_exists( 'version_compare' ) ||
version_compare( phpversion(), '5.3.2' ) < 0 ) {
44 // We need to use dirname( __FILE__ ) here cause __DIR__ is PHP5.3+
45 require( dirname( __FILE__
) . '/includes/PHPVersionError.php' );
46 wfPHPVersionError( 'index.php' );
49 # Initialise common code. This gives us access to GlobalFunctions, the
50 # AutoLoader, and the globals $wgRequest, $wgOut, $wgUser, $wgLang and
51 # $wgContLang, amongst others; it does *not* load $wgTitle
52 require ( __DIR__
. '/includes/WebStart.php' );
54 $mediaWiki = new MediaWiki();