[Mediawiki-l] Set text on editpage by GET request

[Hugh Prior]

One thing you should be careful of is that a GET request is limited on the 
amount of data which you can pass on it (1024 chars?).  If you are planning 
on passing perhaps a large paragraph of data you will need to send it on a 
POST.

This bit me once.  Never again.


Hugh

"Jens Peter Möller" <mediawiki-l at phpug-hamburg.de> 
wrote in message news:44B38718.20701 at phpug-hamburg.de...
> Hi,
>
> I wrote a very little extension, witch displays an inputbox,
> for writing a new article. I know, there is already something
> like that, but I wan't to become a wikipedia hacker an learn
> how the system works. ;-)
>
> After validating the input, a redirect is made:
>
> header("Location:
> http://$_SERVER[HTTP_HOST]$wgScript?title=$article_name&action=edit");
> // $article_name is from the text input.
>
>
> But now I wan't to improve the function. The extension is called
> by <newarticle></newarticle> and I wan't somthing like this:
>
> <newarticle>Category:Foobar</newarticle>
>
> I can parse $input in my extension. This is no problem. But how
> do I create a new article editpage with some preloaded text from
> my extension?
>
> [[Category:Foobar]]
>
>
> kind regards
> JPM