Hi there,
I'm building a somewhat unique Wiki that will involve me writing an
extension that allows us to embed Flash content (ie. streaming video). We're
doing research within the communication/media industry and need this
ability. There are two specific issues I need to solve:
- First, and simplest, I'm having trouble writing out Flash object
references ie. <object classid=..... as HTML. I'm wondering how I can get
Wiki to ignore the fact that my parse function extension is giving it actual
HTML to render and not just Wiki format?
- The second issue I'm having is that we would like to format a specific
data structure within a Wiki article and have the Flash application retrieve
information from the article and parse it. The data is presented in the
other article as a simple list ie.
* Studio Name 1, 1980-1990
* Studio Name 2, 1980-1990
* Studio Name 3, 1980-1990
* Studio Name 4, 1980-1990
* Studio Name 5, 1980-1990
* Studio Name 6, 1980-1990
* Studio Name 7, 1980-1990
I'm wondering how I can extract that particular page for parsing by my
Flash. My thought was simple to create a script within my extensions folder
that spits out just the raw data from the Wiki page. So in essence when the
page is loaded the Flash app would make a call to
/extensions/myext/getarticledata.php?title=whatever here
I have been poking around the MediaWiki articles on how to accomplish these
types of things, but I can't seem to find a solid solution. I'm a beginner
Wiki developer so some initial guidance would be super appreciated :-)
Cheers and thanks!
Dave