Ilmari Karonen wrote: > On 02/06/2011 12:42 AM, Krinkle wrote: > >> So I was thinking : >> * upload a mediawiki install (the same version that WMF runs, ie. >> 1.16wmf4 or 1.17wmf1) >> * make it not publically accessable (we don't want people actually >> browsing the wiki) >> * Configure it in a special way so that one can use the same code for >> any wiki (ie. a $lang and $family variable of some kind) > > So you basically want to set up an internal copy of MediaWiki core so > that it can run on the Toolserver databases in read-only mode, and > provide a wrapper so that it can be conveniently accessed from PHP > code? > > That sounds potentially very useful, at least for people who write > their > tools in PHP. > >> Then one can include includes/WebStart.php, and use the API (ie. >> using >> the huge library of quiries already in the MediaWiki core (ie. >> action=query&list=categorymembers, using generators and getting >> properties, you name it) like this: >> >> <source> >> $site = 'wikipedia'; >> $lang = 'en'; >> require( $mw_root . '/includes/WebStart.php' ); // loads all common >> code including LocalSettings.php >> // LocalSettings contains extra code to check for $site and $lang >> figuring out the correct $wgDBname, >> // $wgDBserver etc. a tiny bit like wmf's CommonSettings.php >> >> $apiRequest = array( >> 'action' => 'query', >> 'list' => '...', >> /* etc. */ >> ); >> /* etc. */ >> </source> > > On the other hand, I'm not sure why you'd want to do that. Calling > the > API internally via FauxRequest is basically a huge kluge. I suppose > it > may sometimes be the easiest way to get a particular job done, but > it's > not really the first (or even second or third) solution I'd consider. > > Most of the time, if you have direct access to the MediaWiki core > classes, you really should just use them directly. > > -- > Ilmari Karonen
Yes indeed. FauxRequest is just one of the examples possible when having a internally working version of wmf-deployment on Toolserver. Ofcourse using any other classes is just as easy and is probably a better idea. -- Krinkle _______________________________________________ Toolserver-l mailing list ([email protected]) https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/toolserver-l Posting guidelines for this list: https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Mailing_list_etiquette
