2009/4/27 Prunka, Sean <[email protected]>: > The general API documentation is good (though daunting) for making use of > existing API calls, but what little information I did find > (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Calling_internally) is limited on > creating a new API extension, especially when mimicking output of a 3rd > party extension or custom written Special Page. > It's not limited to creating a new extension per se: adding a new class for an API module and registering it at the right places is something that can also be done "on the side" of a "regular" extension (in fact, it's almost always used this way, see AbuseFilter and FlaggedRevs for examples).
If you want to mimick the output of a special page, you'll have to get the data the same way the special page does; usually, that's through a database query. For examples of how to do database queries in API modules, see the ApiQuery*.php files in core (/trunk/phase3/includes/api in SVN). Roan Kattouw (Catrope) _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-api mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api
