I had sent a few days ago a questions regading a programing issue I have writing a TAG
extension, but so far no one on the list was able to help. I am just wondering if this is
the proper list to ask about such technichal questions, and if not is there a list that is
dedicated for such questions. I appreciate any help in directing me to were one can obtain
such help.
My question is repeated below:
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I am running mediawiki on MySQL on a Windows server. I am writing a TAG extension which
needs to pull data from a MS SQL data source. In the extension's PHP code, I have the
line:
$sqlconnect=odbc_connect($dsn,$username,$password);
When running this PHP code outside of the Wiki (e.g., in the DOS prompt by typing PHP
code.php), the connection works and I actually pull out data from the database. But inside
the extension code, $sqlconnect ends up being null. Is there a setting that I am missing
that allows me to connect to an external database? Is one not allowed to connect to a
database in a TAG extension code? (I am new to extensions).
I also tried pulling the same data via web services. I tried the line:
$client = new
SoapClient("http://www.mydomain.com/MyService.asmx?wsdl
<https://portal.gorgiaspress.com/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.mydomain.com/MyService.asmx?wsdl>
<http://www.mydomain.com/MyServiceFulfillment.asmx?wsdl
<https://portal.gorgiaspress.com/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.mydomain.com/MyServiceFulfillment.asmx?wsdl>
> ");
Again, I successfully was able to pull data out of the web services when I ran the code
outside of the wiki at the DOS prompt. But once in the Wiki extension code, my Wiki pages
go blank!
Again, is there a setting that I am missing that will allow me to connect to databases and
web services in TAG extensions?
Thanks
George A. Kiraz
George A. Kiraz
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George A. Kiraz, M.St. (Oxon), M.Phil., Ph.D. (Cantab)
Gorgias Press
180 Centennial Ave., Suite A
Piscataway, NJ 08854 USA
Tel. (732) 885-8900
Fax (732) 885-8908
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From: wikitech-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org on behalf of Charlotte Webb
Sent: Tue 12/25/2007 5:06 PM
To: Wikimedia developers
Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] NOWIKI & nowiki
On 12/24/07, Simetrical <Simetrical+wikilist(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Magic words such as "nowiki" are
case-insensitive. (Possibly there
are some magic words that are case-sensitive, but I can't think of any
immediately.)
Most likely that would include all "magic words" which when used
resemble html tags, being formatted <like> </this> (Obviously there
would be others too, "#ReDiReCt" comes to mind).
-C.W.
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