Author: tderouin

Description:
We have a customization such that we can categorize articles from a drop down
list, we do something like this:

$t = Title::newFromDBKey("WikiHowCategories");
$a = new Article($t);
$cat_array = split("\n", $a->getContent(true, true));

The problem is is that article::LoadContent references "oldid" parameter in the
request, so even if you specify an article of "title x" getContent will always
return the content of the current old version of the article you're viewing.

While this works for Wikipedia, if anyone wants to build on top of the software,
it can be a very limiting feature. Possible solutions are adding default
parameters to getContent which ignore the values in wgRequest for oldid and
redirect. It should be possible to load the content of an arbitrary article from
the code when viewing an old version of a particular page.

Version: 1.4.x
Severity: normal
OS: Windows XP
Platform: PC