[Mediawiki-l] Extracting simple wiki data from an HTML page

[MHart]

You don't really have to "convince" mediawiki to give you that info - just 
build a script that queries the database for the info you want.

Here's one that works on MediaWiki 1.4.4. I just took index.php, stripped it 
down, added a few lines of code from SiteStatsUpdate.php, and viola. Call it 
articlecount.php and put it alongside index.php, access it with 
http://yoursite.com/articlecount.php. You could grab it from another app 
using either CURL or file_get_contents() if Apache is setup to allow it - 
usually is by default.

<?php

$wgRequestTime = microtime();

unset( $IP );

@ini_set( 'allow_url_fopen', 0 ); # For security...

define( 'MEDIAWIKI', true );

include( './includes/Defines.php' );
include( './LocalSettings.php' );
include( 'includes/Setup.php' );

$dbr =& wfGetDB( DB_SLAVE );
extract( $dbr->tableNames( 'cur' ) );
$sql = "SELECT COUNT(cur_namespace) AS total FROM $cur";
$res = $dbr->query( $sql, $fname );
$curRow = $dbr->fetchObject( $res );
$pages = $curRow->total + $this->mPages;
echo $pages;

?>

- MHart


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tony Wilson" <mediawiki at redhill.net.au>
To: <mediawiki-l at Wikimedia.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2005 7:03 AM
Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Extracting simple wiki data from an HTML page


> Is there a simple way to extract basic data from a MediaWiki install from
> *outside* the main scripts?
>
> For example, suppose you need to have an ordinary static HTML page, but 
> have it
> access the current NUMBEROFARTICLES from the wiki. (This is for a 
> situation
> where the wiki is part of a larger site, not the entire site in itself.
> Something along the lines of "while you are here, check out our wiki, 
> which has
> NUMBEROFARTICLES articles".)
>
> Obviously, the page would need a little bit of PHP code to do this - which
> doesn't sound difficult in itself - but I am unsure of what I'd need to do 
> to
> persuade the MediaWiki scripts that it OK to provide this information.
>
> Thanks for any help,
>
> Tony
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