Lol, good to know. I've wondered for the longest time what the difference. *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | [email protected]
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 12:44 PM, Daniel Friesen <[email protected]>wrote: > Article is an ancient evil. A class in charge of the presentational logic > to view a page from the front-end (and I'm not even sure it's ideal for > that). Endowed with a public interface to act as a model for pages. > It's PURE EVIL!!! > > WikiPage the actual model for pages. Article inherits some WikiPage stuff > for backwards compatibility but should never be used for that purpose. > > Ideally one day we'll have a better system for outputting pages, actions, > and special pages to the front-end and we'll eliminate the Article class in > it's entirety. > > > -- > ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name] > > On Fri, 17 Aug 2012 09:35:02 -0700, Tyler Romeo <[email protected]> > wrote: > > What exactly is the difference between Article and WikiPage? It seems like >> one is just an encapsulation of the other. >> >> *--* >> *Tyler Romeo* >> >> Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 >> Major in Computer Science >> www.whizkidztech.com | [email protected] >> >> >> >> On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 12:03 PM, Daniel Friesen >> <[email protected]>**wrote: >> >> On Fri, 17 Aug 2012 08:02:23 -0700, Mauricio Etchevest < >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>>> >>>> I´m developing a extension and I need to add an article to a category. >>>> >>>> I only get the title of the article, so I try this: >>>> >>>> $articleToAdd = new Article($title); >>>> >>>> $context = $articleToAdd->getContext(); >>>> $resArticle = MediaWiki::articleFromTitle($****title, $context); >>>> >>>> $linksupdate = new LinksUpdate($resArticle->****getTitle(), >>>> $resArticle->getParserOutput()****, $f); >>>> $ps = $linksupdate->getParserOutput(****); >>>> >>>> $categoriesLinks = $ps->getCategoryLinks(); >>>> >>>> >>>> ..so I get all the categories for the article, but I need to add and >>>> remove >>>> a category. How can I do that ? >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Thanks! >>>> Maurice.- >>>> >>>> >>> Firstly, don't use Article, use WikiPage. >>> >>> We don't have an API to add/remove categories. So adding a category is >>> nothing but appending category WikiText to the end of the page. And >>> removing one is an ugly mess of using regexps to find some WikiText that >>> looks like the category link you're looking for and erasing it. >>> >>> On the other hand we DO have an api for things hooked into the parser to >>> add categories that aren't marked up in the page (maintenance categories >>> from tag extensions, etc...) >>> >>> -- >>> ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name] >>> >> > ______________________________**_________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l<https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l> > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
