Manual:WatchedItemStore.php

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MediaWiki file: WatchedItemStore.php
Location:	includes/
Source code:	master • 1.42.3 • 1.41.4 • 1.39.10
Classes:	WatchedItemStore

WatchedItemStore is the MediaWiki class that handles database interactions for Watchlist related functions. Watchlist code in other parts of the core act as a wrapper for functions in this class.

Member functions

countWatchedItems() - Count the number of individual items that are watched by the user. Counts subject and talk page separately.
countWatchers() - Count number of watchers for a given page.
countWatchersMultiple() - Count number of watchers for a given array of pages. Returns an array with watchers for each page.
countVisitingWatchers() - Number of watchers who have visited a recent edit of a page.
countVisitingWatchersMultiple() - Number of watchers of each page (from a given set of pages) who have visited recent edits to that page.
getNotificationTimestamp() - Retrieve the notification timestamp for an entry on the watchlist for a given user and page.
getNotificationTimestampsBatch() - Retrieve the notification timestamps for an array of given entries.
getWatchedItem() - Get a WatchedItem object for given user and LinkTarget object.
getWatchedItemsForUser() - Get all WatchedItems for a given user.
isWatched() - Check if a page is watched. Separate for subject and talk pages.
loadWatchedItem() - Loads a WatchedItem from DB with given user and LinkTarget values.
removeWatch() - Remove page from watchlist, given a user and LinkTarget.
resetNotificationTimestamp() - Reset notification timestamp for given user and page.
setNotificationTimestampsForUser() - Set a notification timestamp for given user and page.
updateNotificationTimestamp() - Update notification timestamp for given LinkTarget object. Accepts the editor user object to not update timestamp for them.

This list only covers the major functions. For a more complete list, refer to this auto-generated documentation page.

Example Usages

// Get notification timestamp for a watched item
use MediaWiki\MediaWikiServices;
$item = MediaWikiServices::getInstance()->getWatchedItemStore()->loadWatchedItem( $this->user, $this->linkTarget );
$this->notificationTimestamp = $item->getNotificationTimestamp();

// Count watched items for a given user
use MediaWiki\MediaWikiServices;
$store = MediaWikiServices::getInstance()->getWatchedItemStore();
$count = $store->countWatchedItems( $this->getUser() );