Write an extension. This allows you to insert the text as HTML style
(<foo></foo>) tags. Meta has an article on it:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Write_your_own_MediaWiki_extension
All you need to know is PHP and SQL for the DB queries. You probably
should not use MySQL functions directly, but use the MediaWiki
wrappers (Whithin the Database class). Look at some of the source code
of your version for an idea of how to use it.
On Sat, 01 Jan 2005 09:05:19 -0600, =James Birkholz=
<j.birchwood(a)verizon.net> wrote:
Is it possible to insert a dynamic data retrieval
function into the middle
of an article? In other words, to allow user edits, but have something in
the text that calls a query/table building routine. I have some articles
that need to display data from tables in the same database that I installed
WikiMedia into. Rather than editing that data into tables by hand, it would
be so much easier to have a routine build the tables, and have any changes
to the database reflected in the article automatically.
Alternate ideas might include:
1) putting the logic in the overall page display logic (as part of a
Special: page?), but would prefer to have it in the main article text, not
as a footer
2) using links to point to non-wiki pages that display the tables (again,
prefer to have the data in the main article text, not hidden on other pages
Ideas?
James Birkholz
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