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(a)redhill.net.au>
To: <mediawiki-l(a)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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