On 05/01/07, Erhard Rainer <mediawikimailinglist(a)erhard-rainer.com> wrote:
I'm using an extension for parsing an external
document. This works
fine, but now I want to insert the content of a variable as a new
article. So I took a look at maintenance\importTextFile.php as
recommended and tried to write a new article using
Yeah, don't *call* the maintenance script. :)
For an extension, this is quite simple to achieve, at least in
MediaWiki 1.7.0 and upwards. You'll need a Title object representing
the page to be edited.
Assuming $text is the text to be inserted, and $title is the Title object:
if( !$title->exists() ) {
$article = new Article( $title );
$article->doEdit( $text );
}
Article::doEdit() will accept other parameters; see the documentation.
It handles saving the text, performing link table and search engine
updates, and a whole host of other stuff.
Pre-1.7, well, it's a similar procedure, but broken up into a lot more
steps; one has to create the Article object, use the insertOn method,
create a Revision, insert that, update the Article, call link table
updates...
Rob Church