Re: [Wikitech-l] Add an article to a category

On Fri, 17 Aug 2012 08:02:23 -0700, Mauricio Etchevest mauricioet@gmail.com wrote:

Hi,

I´m developing a extension and I need to add an article to a category.

I only get the title of the article, so I try this:

$articleToAdd = new Article($title);

$context = $articleToAdd->getContext(); $resArticle = MediaWiki::articleFromTitle($title, $context);

$linksupdate = new LinksUpdate($resArticle->getTitle(), $resArticle->getParserOutput(), $f); $ps = $linksupdate->getParserOutput(); $categoriesLinks = $ps->getCategoryLinks();

..so I get all the categories for the article, but I need to add and remove a category. How can I do that ?

Thanks! Maurice.-

Firstly, don't use Article, use WikiPage.

We don't have an API to add/remove categories. So adding a category is nothing but appending category WikiText to the end of the page. And removing one is an ugly mess of using regexps to find some WikiText that looks like the category link you're looking for and erasing it.

On the other hand we DO have an api for things hooked into the parser to add categories that aren't marked up in the page (maintenance categories from tag extensions, etc...)