[Pmwiki-users] Developer Question

[Steven Leite]

Patrick, that helped TREMENDOUSLY!

It will be a shame for this information to go to waste.  I know there's a
Developer section already on PmWiki, but this information doesn't seem to
fit there.  Maybe we can add it to a DeveloperFAQ or something.  It's
valuable stuff.

Thanks again.  Also thanks to to Greg who also repsponded!

Steven Leite

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Patrick R. Michaud" <pmichaud at pobox.com>
To: "Steven Leite" <steven_leite at kitimat.net>
Cc: <pmwiki-users at pmichaud.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 21, 2004 10:34 PM
Subject: Re: [Pmwiki-users] Developer Question


> On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 11:31:51AM -0800, 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?
>
> If you just want the markup text of the WikiPage and you're running
> from pmwiki.php, then the easy way is:
>
>     $page = ReadPage('Group.WikiPage');
>     $text = $page['text'];
>
> Otherwise, there are other options for reading the file:
>
> 1.  You could duplicate the ReadPage script into your own PHP script.
> 2.  You can use PmWiki's ?action=source action to retrieve the markup text
> 3.  You can use the following Unix shell command:
>       grep '^text=' wiki.d/Group.WikiPage | tr "\262" "\012"
> 4.  You can do the equivalent of the Unix shell command in PHP:
>       $text_array = preg_grep('/^text=/',file('wiki.d/Group.WikiPage'));
>       $text = str_replace("\262","\n",$text_array[0]);
>
> If you're wanting the rendered output of the page (i.e., after it's been
> converted to HTML):
>
> 1.  If you need the HTML from some script called by pmwiki.php, then
>     maybe I can fix PrintText() to return a string.
> 2.  Alternately, you can make your own calls to PrintText() or
PrintWikiPage()
>     and surround the calls with ob_start/ob_get_contents.
> 3.  From outside of PHP, you can create a minimal skin template and then
call
>     pmwiki.php to render the page using the minimal skin.  I.e., create
>     a minskin.tmpl file that contains nothing but <!--PrintText-->, then
>     call PmWiki with that skin
>     (http://localhost/pmwiki.php/Main/HomePage?skin=minskin).
>
> Hope this helps?
>
> Pm
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