New subject: [Mediawiki-l] Creating wiki pages directly by program

2 Feb 2006

I would like to be able to create wiki pages by just calling a function to 
which I pass the name of the new page and the text which I want on the page. 
I have managed a solution where I just hack directly into the tables 
(bypassing all the mediawiki code), but started to hit code translation type 
problems, so I think it is best to do it building on all the wisdom already 
built into the mediawiki code.

The sort of "createPage()" function which I have so far got, but which does 
not work, is as follows:

/**
* Pass the name of the new page and the content and create the page
*/
function createPage($wikiPageName, $pageText) {
  $title = new Title();
  $title = $title->newFromText($wikiPageName);
  $article = new Article($title);
  $article->insertNewArticle($pageText, "No summary", false, false);
}

Anybody done this before?  Any ideas what I need to do specifically to get 
this working?

I have tried to trace through what the "index.php" file does when creating a 
page, but it's not easy to follow particularly because of the way in which 
the parameters are often implicit (e.g. via POST of form data).

Thanks for any help!

Hugh Prior 