For the past couple of years, I've been using various scripts to mine data out of my
wikis from other sites/services on the same server (but sometimes on different virtual
hosts). To do this, I've been doing something that is probably really bad coding
practice - I fool maintenance/commandLine.inc into thinking it's being invoked by the
command line instead of from a webserver.
Typically, I'm doing something like:
unset($_SERVER);
$argv = array('foo');
require_once("$wikipath/maintenance/commandLine.inc");
# need MW stuff to create $dbr
$dbr =& wfGetDB( DB_SLAVE );
$result = $dbr->select ( <some query>);
# do something with the result
...
but we are often also using Title, Article, and/or Revision objects, Categories etc. My
approach seems to fail in MW versions post 1.14. I'm reviewing a bunch of this code
now to see if I can clean some other things up/make it easier to maintain/make it forward
compatible, so I thought I'd ask the list: is there a better way to do this?
Thanks!
Jim
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Jim Hu
Associate Professor
Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics
2128 TAMU
Texas A&M Univ.
College Station, TX 77843-2128
979-862-4054