[Mediawiki-api] The best way to call the API from a php script

Michał holek.n at gmail.com
Sun May 10 20:52:32 UTC 2009


2009/5/10 Rezuan Asrah <rezuan7 at gmail.com>:
> I prefer to use cURL, but how do you use that properly?
> Do you mean the "curl" from the command line, or the equivalent PHP function
> that acts like it?
>
> Run the commad using "exec" function?

ehh... these are, like, basics of the API ;)

if ($api = @file_get_contents('http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&format=php&titles=Abraham_Lincoln|Film|Language'))
{
	$api_result = unserialize($api);
	print_r($api_result);
}


-- 
Michał "Hołek" Połtyn



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