[Mediawiki-l] Creating wiki pages directly by program

[Gilad Ravid]

Hi,

You can use Perl program to submit the HTML forms. I used it to upload few
hundreds of HTML pages to wiki. The main function looks:

my $response=$browser->post("$server/index.php?title=$title&action=submit",
@ns_headers,Content_Type=>'form-data',Content=>[
			wpTextbox1=>$clean_pageU,
			wpSummary=>'',
			wpSave=>"Save page",
			wpSection=>'',
			wpEdittime=>'',
			wpEditToken=>$editToken
		]);

Where the variable $clean_PageU include all the page text.


Gilad



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-----Original Message-----
From: mediawiki-l-bounces at Wikimedia.org
[mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces at Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Hugh Prior
Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2006 4:56 PM
To: mediawiki-l at wikimedia.org
Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Creating wiki pages directly by program

I would like to be able to create wiki pages by just calling a function to 
which I pass the name of the new page and the text which I want on the page.

I have managed a solution where I just hack directly into the tables 
(bypassing all the mediawiki code), but started to hit code translation type

problems, so I think it is best to do it building on all the wisdom already 
built into the mediawiki code.

The sort of "createPage()" function which I have so far got, but which does 
not work, is as follows:

/**
* Pass the name of the new page and the content and create the page
*/
function createPage($wikiPageName, $pageText) {
  $title = new Title();
  $title = $title->newFromText($wikiPageName);
  $article = new Article($title);
  $article->insertNewArticle($pageText, "No summary", false, false);
}

Anybody done this before?  Any ideas what I need to do specifically to get 
this working?

I have tried to trace through what the "index.php" file does when creating a

page, but it's not easy to follow particularly because of the way in which 
the parameters are often implicit (e.g. via POST of form data).

Thanks for any help!



Hugh Prior 



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