[Mediawiki-l] Odd input from file

Fri Mar 9 03:05:37 UTC 2007

I'm trying to fix McNaught's <ImageMap> extension to work with MW1.9.2 
and a Wiki family.

The input is a file [[Media:World-map.map]] which contains the map 
information in HTML format.  The purpose of the code below is to read 
the .map file and write it to output.  A snippet of the content of the 
map file looks like:

    <map name="map">
    <AREA SHAPE="POLY" COORDS = "168,117,139,125,120,108,151,104" HREF =
    "http://kw.org/index.php/Caribbean" TITLE="Caribbean">
    </map>

The following code taken from imagemap.php is interspersed with comments 
that show the actual values as found from dumping the info to error.log. 
  The **OK** means it's what I expect.  The ***?????*** is what I don't 
understand.

$html = $localParser->parse($MapURL,$wgTitle,$parserOptions);

= <p><a href="http://pool.kw.org/images/4/47/World-map.map"
   class="internal" title="World-map.map">Media:World-map.map</a>
   </p>   **OK**

$MapUrl=preg_replace('/^.*<a[\s]+href=*"(.*?)".*$/is','\1',html->mText);

= http://pool.kw.org/images/4/47/World-map.map   **OK**

   $mapData = file($MapUrl);

= <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN">    ***?????***
   <html><head>
   <title>Menu for /images/4/47/World-map.map</title>
   </head><body>
   <h1>Menu for /images/4/47/World-map.map</h1>
   <hr />

   <pre> <a href="http://pool.kw.org/images/4/47/name="map">">name="map">
   </a></pre>
   <pre> <a href="http://pool.kw.org/images/4/47/SHAPE="POLY"">
   SHAPE="POLY"</a></pre>

etc.  It looks like the file has been preprocessed to generate HTML in 
some way.  Is this normal for file()?  Is there a way to tell it to just 
give me the content of the file?

Mike