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+<?php
+
+/**
+ * Support class for the updateArticleCount.php maintenance script
+ *
+ * @addtogroup Maintenance
+ * @author Rob Church <robchur@gmail.com>
+ */
+
+class ArticleCounter {
+
+ var $dbr;
+ var $namespaces;
+
+ function ArticleCounter() {
+ global $wgContentNamespaces;
+ $this->namespaces = $wgContentNamespaces;
+ $this->dbr = wfGetDB( DB_SLAVE );
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * Produce a comma-delimited set of namespaces
+ * Includes paranoia
+ *
+ * @return string
+ */
+ function makeNsSet() {
+ foreach( $this->namespaces as $namespace )
+ $namespaces[] = intval( $namespace );
+ return implode( ', ', $namespaces );
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * Produce SQL for the query
+ *
+ * @return string
+ */
+ function makeSql() {
+ list( $page, $pagelinks ) = $this->dbr->tableNamesN( 'page', 'pagelinks' );
+ $nsset = $this->makeNsSet();
+ return "SELECT DISTINCT page_namespace,page_title FROM $page,$pagelinks " .
+ "WHERE pl_from=page_id and page_namespace IN ( $nsset ) " .
+ "AND page_is_redirect = 0 AND page_len > 0";
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * Count the number of valid content pages in the wiki
+ *
+ * @return mixed Integer, or false if there's a problem
+ */
+ function count() {
+ $res = $this->dbr->query( $this->makeSql(), __METHOD__ );
+ if( $res ) {
+ $count = $this->dbr->numRows( $res );
+ $this->dbr->freeResult( $res );
+ return $count;
+ } else {
+ # Look out for this when handling the result
+ # - Actually it's unreachable, !$res throws an exception -- TS
+ return false;
+ }
+ }
+
+}
+
+