[Mediawiki-l] Creating wiki pages directly by program

Fri Feb 3 07:59:52 UTC 2006

A good place to look for a simple example is the
maintenance/InitialiseMessages.inc include file, which contains a
chunk that shows how to create/edit pages in a programmatic fashion.

Rob Church

On 02/02/06, Hugh Prior <mediawiki at localpin.com> wrote:
> I would like to be able to create wiki pages by just calling a function to
> which I pass the name of the new page and the text which I want on the page.
> I have managed a solution where I just hack directly into the tables
> (bypassing all the mediawiki code), but started to hit code translation type
> problems, so I think it is best to do it building on all the wisdom already
> built into the mediawiki code.
>
> The sort of "createPage()" function which I have so far got, but which does
> not work, is as follows:
>
> /**
> * Pass the name of the new page and the content and create the page
> */
> function createPage($wikiPageName, $pageText) {
>   $title = new Title();
>   $title = $title->newFromText($wikiPageName);
>   $article = new Article($title);
>   $article->insertNewArticle($pageText, "No summary", false, false);
> }
>
> Anybody done this before?  Any ideas what I need to do specifically to get
> this working?
>
> I have tried to trace through what the "index.php" file does when creating a
> page, but it's not easy to follow particularly because of the way in which
> the parameters are often implicit (e.g. via POST of form data).
>
> Thanks for any help!
>
>
>
> Hugh Prior
>
>
>
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