It looks like this would be my answer. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Calling_internally
But it dosnt work. I get some error about a hook function missing or something. But I would love it if it could work this easily. On Jun 19, 2009, at 9:28 PM, Michael Daly wrote: > Adam Meyer wrote: > >> Is this doable? > > There may be a better way to do this, but... > > In PHP, you can get the wiki page as if it was a file: > > $myPageUrl ="http://example.com/api.php?action=parse&text={{:Main > Page}}__TOC__&prop=sections"; > // set to 20 second timeout then restore. > $currentTimeout = ini_set( 'default_socket_timeout', "20" ); > $myPage = file($myPageUrl); > ini_set( 'default_socket_timeout', $currentTimeout ); > > > This will produce a list of section headers. Count them to see what > the > last one is. > > I've found it useful to ensure that any timeouts due to the web page > access are trapped here and don't run into the overall program > timeout. > Restore the old timeout once the page is read. > > If you need to set up a session (e.g. to log in and stay logged in > while > you get data from pages) look up curl in the online PHP manual. > > Mike > > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
