Jim Hu wrote:
> For the past couple of years, I've been using various scripts to mine data
> out of my wikis from other sites/services on the same server (but sometimes
> on different virtual hosts). To do this, I've been doing something that is
> probably really bad coding practice - I fool maintenance/commandLine.inc into
> thinking it's being invoked by the command line instead of from a webserver.
>
> Typically, I'm doing something like:
>
> unset($_SERVER);
> $argv = array('foo');
> require_once("$wikipath/maintenance/commandLine.inc");
>
> # need MW stuff to create $dbr
> $dbr =& wfGetDB( DB_SLAVE );
> $result = $dbr->select ( <some query>);
>
> # do something with the result
> ...
>
> but we are often also using Title, Article, and/or Revision objects,
> Categories etc. My approach seems to fail in MW versions post 1.14. I'm
> reviewing a bunch of this code now to see if I can clean some other things
> up/make it easier to maintain/make it forward compatible, so I thought I'd
> ask the list: is there a better way to do this?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Jim
You could create a new style maintenance script which overrides setup()
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