I've been poking around mediawiki for a couple months now. I am working on
a project that has a lot of customization demands and am running into some
quicksand. Any help or pointers would be appreciated. I came here because
this all seemed to complicated for IRC...
1. Alternate Editor/New Editor/Editor Script/Editing Form
I need to set up a more restrictive editor as a linkable option to the usual
editor. By more restrictive, I mean you essentially build the article with
text inputs and drop down menus.
I've found the showEditForm() function in EditPage.php and the FCKeditor
extensions, but am at a loss which way would be best. Ideally I would just
create the form, feed it to a script which recombined all the values, and
sent it on into the regular editing/updating mechanism.
2. Text Queries/Query Content/Get Article Content from Database
Part of this project is to maintain a flatfile mirror of the articles in one
of the wiki namespaces. This includes writing out files when they are moved
into the particular namespace. I'm finding the db calls to be confusing. I
have the article id & title, what am I looking for to get the article text?
This is being written as an extension.
~ grayside