Fixing Mediawiki 1.6 when upgrading PHP from 5.2 to 5.3

The FreeBSD's port php5 was updated from 5.2.12 to 5.3.2 on Apr 9 2010. It will get a syntax error when running Mediawiki 1.6 in PHP 5.3:

syntax error, unexpected T_NAMESPACE, expecting T_STRING in /usr/local/www/wiki/includes/Namespace.php on line 46

This problem was caused by "Namespace", which used as php class name in Mediawiki 1.6, being a reserved keyword since PHP 5.3. To fixing this errer, you must rename Namespace to MWNamespace.

Note: The Midiawiki already renamed Namespace to MWNamespace since branch 1.13.

HOW TO

Rename class

Open /includes/Namespace.php

Find: (Line 46)

class Namespace {

Replace with:

class MWNamespace {

Check related files

Check all files in the Mediawiki folder for references to Namespace:: and renaming that to MWNamespace::.

The related files in Mediawiki 1.6 as following:

Search "Namespace::" (18 hits in 10 files)
/includes/Export.php (1 hits)
/includes/ImageGallery.php (1 hits)
/includes/Namespace.php (3 hits)
/includes/Parser.php (1 hits)
/includes/RecentChange.php (1 hits)
/includes/SkinTemplate.php (1 hits)
/includes/SpecialWatchlist.php (1 hits)
/includes/Title.php (6 hits)
/maintenance/FiveUpgrade.inc (2 hits)
/maintenance/generateSitemap.php (1 hits)