1. From the looks of it, something early on in the process is calling $wgParser while it's still stubbed and trying to run Parser::parse() with invalid arguments. This doesn't appear to have changed in trunk 1.15 either. What extensions are you running? Does disabling them help fix this?

2. This would appear that Parser::parse() is returning a non-ParserOutput return. It's probably related to #1 somehow.

xtzgzorex wrote:

No extensions at all, whatsoever.

Yes, I figured it was returning something incorrect, but I really couldn't make out where it went wrong (mostly because I can't find my way in the source ;)).

Downgrading severity, PHP 5.3 is still in alpha and is subject to change.

• This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 16505 ***

Oops, false bug.

• This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 15854 ***

peter wrote:

The problem indeed lies in the implementation of the StubObject, it doesn't forward the call properly (there are some warnings about references too); the parse () method-call never reaches the Parser class. This is because of a change in the 5.3 codebase: in previous versions PHP would be silent if you'd pass values in call_user_func_array, even if they were declared references (which in theory wouldn't work - there's nothing to reference to). In PHP 5.3 however this throws a warning, and the function call will be aborted. A simple snippet to reproduce this;

<?php
function test (& $value)
{

echo 'Hello, world!';

}

call_user_func_array ('test', array (5));
?>

In PHP 5.2 this echos "Hello, world!", in PHP 5.3 nothing other than a warning. I'm not familiar with the MediaWiki codebase so I wasn't capable of producing a proper fix, however, disabling the StubObject did solve the problem. A simple patch is included below, doing nothing else than disabling the StubObject for the Parser class.

Regards,
Peter

includes/Setup.php : 244

• $wgParser = new StubObject( 'wgParser', $wgParserConf['class'], array( $wgParserConf ) );

+ $wgParser = new $wgParserConf['class'] ($wgParserConf);

xtzgzorex wrote:

I'll try with that, thanks. What IS the StubObject though? I wasn't able to figure out what it's used for.