On Nov 30, 2010, at 5:13 PM, Platonides wrote:
> 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()
Ah! Of course! Thanks.
Jim
>
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Texas A&M Univ.
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