# You may want to write your own tag extension[1] or use an existing one (which does not exactly do want you want)[2] # clicking on the edit tab and changing "action=edit" in "action=raw" (in the URI-bar) gives you a URI which spites out the raw wikitext[3]
[1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Tag_extensions [2] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Secure_HTML [3] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Page_action#Raw
On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 2:41 AM, David Di Biase dave.dibiase@gmail.com wrote:
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 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l