[Mediawiki-l] integrate data from external database

[Jim Hu]

Be careful with permissions using this approach, of course!!

On Mar 18, 2008, at 4:06 PM, Daniel Barrett wrote:

> One approach: Write a custom tag (say, <mydatabase>) that hits your
> database using the API at http://us.php.net/mysql and returns results.
> For example, <mydatabase>select foo, bar from blat</mydatabase> could
> produce an HTML table of the results, with the column names (foo, bar)
> as the table headings.
>
> DanB
>
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Jim Hu
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