Hi Brad, Roan,

Thanks for the quick reply. I, as a matter of fact, did not enable it. I just went ahead and researched the config settings I should have in LocalSettings.php and added these two:

$wgEnableWriteAPI = true;
$wgEnableAPI = true;

Besides that I noticed that one of my links, as Roan suggested, was missing action=edit or rather it was there but I had a double ? ie. index.php?format=xml?action=. How silly of me.

I'm now getting this, which I'll work through in a bit as I might have an idea of what it is:
Array
(
    [error] => Array
        (
            [code] => notext
            [info] => One of the text, appendtext and prependtext parameters must be set
        )

)
I did notice that the API enable option isn't described at all in the API reference manual. That's probably something people should know before trying to do editing and similar things. Unless I missed it (which tends to happen to me :-p).

Thanks and cheers,

Dave

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Roan Kattouw <roan.kattouw@home.nl> wrote:
David Di Biase schreef:
> Hi there,
>
> I just started using the MediaWiki API today. I'm writting a script to
> insert about 500 new articles into the Wiki. I'm using PHP5, MedaWiki
> 1.13.3.
>
> I've decided to use CURL to communicate with the APIs on my local machine.
> So far I can login, receive my lgtoken and request an edit token - which is
> all good. What I'm noticing however is when I use the examples on the site
> to send an action=edit I get this returned back:
>
> Array
> (
>     [error] => Array
>         (
>             [code] => help
>             [info] =>
>             [*] =>
>
> Plus the entire manual after it. What's even more strange is when I read the
> the manual more closely I don't see any references to action=edit being
> available. I have however found the same manual on other sites which list it
> accordingly. I'm completely baffled. Apparently 1.13.3 *does* have support
> for API editing.
The reason you don't see action=edit in the manual is probably because
you've got editing disabled for anonymous users, or because the write
API is disabled on your wiki. In the former case, verify you're properly
logged in by checking meta=userinfo. In the latter case, set
$wgEnableWriteAPI = true; in LocalSettings.php . In either case, you
should be getting something like this:

Array
(
   [error] => Array
       (
           [code] => unknown_action
           [info] => Unrecognized value for parameter 'action': edit
       )
)


A response with code=help and the help text included (even in a non-fm
format) suggests you're using action=help or no action at all.

Roan Kattouw (Catrope)

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