[Mediawiki-l] Tie in a script?

Mon Apr 16 04:21:10 UTC 2007

Steve

I confess that in my Special page I just load up all the HTML is a  
single string variable $output and then do

		$wgOut->addHTML( $output );

Also,  I may be doing something that will break in some browsers, but  
I thought self was the default for <form method="POST">.  I don't  
bother to send the URL back to the Special page and it seems to work  
in Safari and Firefox on the Mac, and in whatever browsers my  
students are using.

Jim

On Apr 15, 2007, at 11:31 PM, Steve Finkelstein wrote:

> Thanks again Jim.
>
> I almost got it working with the following code:
> http://www.stevefink.net/mediawiki/ldaptools_body.php
>
> My only issue here is with the following line:
>
>       $wgOut->addHTML('<form method="POST"
> action="'.$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'].'">');
>
> This posts to the page and rewrites the URL as
>
> https://host.foo.com/index.php/$_SERVER%5B'PHP_SELF'%5D
>
> and completely breaks my form.
>
> I think if I can get that fixed, my special page will be golden.
>
> Any advice would be appreciated!
>
> - sf
>
> Jim Hu wrote:
>> Hmm... seems like it should have worked then.  But if there's an
>> easier example go for it!  I'll take a look at that myself.
>>
>> On Apr 15, 2007, at 8:20 PM, Steve Finkelstein wrote:
>>
>>> MW - 1.9.3
>>> PHP - 5.2.0
>>>
>>> I've been referred to take a look at
>>> http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/examples/
>>> SpecialIncludable.php?revision=19503&view=markup
>>>
>>>
>>> Looks simpler to manage for a newcomer to PHP.
>>>
>>> - sf
>>>
>>> Jim Hu wrote:
>>>> What MW/php versions are you using?  I didn't have to explicitly
>>>> include, but I think MW autoloads the classes, which doesn't  
>>>> work in
>>>> PHP4.  That's my handwaving guess - the real experts can confirm or
>>>> deny.
>>>>
>>>> Jim
>>>> On Apr 15, 2007, at 6:54 PM, Steve Finkelstein wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> When writing a SpecialPage, I receive the following error:
>>>>>
>>>>> PHP Fatal error:  Class 'SpecialPage' not found
>>>>>
>>>>> Do I have to explicitly include SpecialPage.php in my code? It
>>>>> doesn't
>>>>> list it as such in the page listed below by Jim.
>>>>>
>>>>> - sf
>>>>>
>>>>> Jim Hu wrote:
>>>>>> I found the frameworks on this page to be helpful in building
>>>>>> special
>>>>>> pages
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Writing_a_new_special_page
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Jim
>>>>>> On Apr 14, 2007, at 4:15 PM, Ian Smith wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> So, you have a script which basically pops up an HTML form?
>>>>>>> Sounds
>>>>>>> like you want to make a new special page.  This would be a page
>>>>>>> that you can link to, and which can access MW's security
>>>>>>> features -
>>>>>>> so you can restrict it to people who have confirmed email
>>>>>>> addresses, eg.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Find another extension that does something similar, and merge  
>>>>>>> your
>>>>>>> code into it.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Ian
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>  -----Original Message-----
>>>>>>> From: 	Steve Finkelstein [mailto:sf at stevefink.net]
>>>>>>> Sent:	Saturday, April 14, 2007 12:53 PM Pacific Standard Time
>>>>>>> To:	mediawiki-l at lists.wikimedia.org
>>>>>>> Subject:	[Mediawiki-l] Tie in a script?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> All,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Not sure what the correct terminology is, assuming it might be a
>>>>>>> hook or
>>>>>>> extension. Either way - I have existing scripts which I've
>>>>>>> written in
>>>>>>> PHP that simply allow users to change their LDAP password, etc.
>>>>>>> I'm
>>>>>>> looking to throw this code (it's just a form with basic PHP+LDAP
>>>>>>> support) into MediaWiki so users can change their password from
>>>>>>> there.
>>>>>>> Currently I have it linked as an external link and for security
>>>>>>> purposes, this isn't favorable.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Is there any suggestions on how I can begin to go about this?  
>>>>>>> The
>>>>>>> correct documentation etc would be much preferred.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks all!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> - Steve
>>>>>>>
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Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics
2128 TAMU
Texas A&M Univ.
College Station, TX 77843-2128
979-862-4054