[Pmwiki-users] Developer Question

[Greg Morgan]

Steven Leite wrote:

> I'm writing an add-on, and I want to pull information from a data 
> file. If I just include the following line of text in my .php file:
>  
> *$filename = "datafile.txt";*
> *$file_contents = file($filename);*
>  
> That solves my problem, but I want to do more.  I want the data files 
> to be a WikiPage.
>  
> Q:  How can I extract the contents of a WikiPage and send it to my script?
>  
> I guess there are two approaches. 
>  
> One is to directly pull it from the wiki.d directory, but that's kind 
> of messy, especially since there's other information in that file 
> besides just Wiki Text. 
>  
> The second approach would be to call it from PmWiki, and have it 
> served to the script.  Problem there might be it comes with all the 
> formating from any template file that might exist.  I want just the 
> WikiText, nothing else.
>  
> I might want to use a password protected WikiPage as a data-store, 
> employing omma delimited, or pipe delimted data file for example. 
>  
> Thanks!
>  
> Steven Leite

Well you could try this.  Assuming $file_contents contains the text you 
want to wiki format.

PrintText($pagename,$file_contents);

or if you wanted the formatted wiki text to be stored in a variable try 
this...
ob_start();
PrintText($pagename,$file_contents);
$mywikitext:=ob_get_contents ();
ob_end_clean();

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