MediaWiki/archive/embedding

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==Overview==
This page is about embedding [[MediaWiki]] content within non-MediaWiki sites, or as standalone pages without the standard navigation and control links provided by most [[MediaWiki skin]]s.
==non-PHP==
This is easiest to do if the other application is also written in [[PHP]], but it is possible to do this using other languages as well. [[Perl]] has a library, [http://search.cpan.org/~gschloss/PHP-Interpreter-1.0.1/lib/PHP/Interpreter.pm PHP::Interpreter], that allows it to execute PHP code; other languages may have similar capabilities.

If they do not, then one can still accomplish a certain amount by loading MediaWiki pages using [[http]] and the "?action=render" directive, which displays the page's [http://thebeginnerslens.com/ iphone photography]
bare contents without any of the navigation aids. (This method is not recommended if you have any alternatives, as it is slow and wasteful of CPU resources.)

==PHP==
This works with MediaWiki v'''1.16''':
* [[/1.16/index.php]]
These have been tested with MediaWiki v'''1.14'''.
* [[/1.14/index.php]] is a usage example; as given, it provides a standalone page, but it also shows the code needed to retrieve page content
* [[/1.14/extract.php]] is the code which actually does the work of extraction; the function GetWikiPage($iTitle) returns the page's contents as a string.
Configuration info is in index.php. Note that this has not been tested ''very much''; I got it working on my server, then posted it.

Works on MW '''1.10''':
* [[/old/extract.php/v2]]

Based on MW somewhere around '''1.7''':
* [[/old/extract.php/v1]]
===To Do===
* I need to work out the code for detecting if a given page exists in the wiki, so the main application can display default values other than the wiki's default ("This page doesn't exist yet..."). Detecting [http://www.bestpills4weightloss.com/ weight loss pills] this with the method below may or may not be possible; if MediaWiki returns a 404 code for non-existent articles, then that [http://www.premierrivercruises.com/river-cruise-regions-of-the-world/vietnam-river-cruiseVietnam river cruises] could be used, but I don't yet know if it does. --[[User:Woozle|Woozle]] 18:52, 15 October 2006 (EDT)''
* We don't yet know how to get MediaWiki to emit fully-qualified URLs; it is currently necessary to do a search-and-replace to fix links targeting the wiki. (It's probably a configuration thing -- $wgArticlePath, I'd guess. Don't know if link URLs get cached, though, so that might not work reliably. --[[User:Woozle|Woozle]] 19:29, 6 June 2009 (EDT))

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