[Pmwiki-users] Developer Question

[Nils Knappmeier]

Steven Leite wrote:

>Patrick, that helped TREMENDOUSLY!
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>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
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Well, it's not exactly a _Frequently_ Asked Question. But I guess some 
kind of
HowtoDevelopYourOwnCookbookModule would be nice. Or a Hints-Page.
I don't know how to best call it.

Nils

>Thanks again.  Also thanks to to Greg who also repsponded!
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>Steven Leite
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>----- 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
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>>On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 11:31:51AM -0800, Steven Leite wrote:
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>>>   I'm  writing  an  add-on,  and  I want to pull information from a
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>data
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>>>   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
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>files
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>>>   to be a WikiPage.
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>>>   Q:   How  can  I  extract the contents of a WikiPage and send it to
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>>>   script?
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>>If you just want the markup text of the WikiPage and you're running
>>from pmwiki.php, then the easy way is:
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>>    $page = ReadPage('Group.WikiPage');
>>    $text = $page['text'];
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>>Otherwise, there are other options for reading the file:
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>>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]);
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>>If you're wanting the rendered output of the page (i.e., after it's been
>>converted to HTML):
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>>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
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>PrintWikiPage()
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>>    and surround the calls with ob_start/ob_get_contents.
>>3.  From outside of PHP, you can create a minimal skin template and then
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>call
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>>    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).
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>>Hope this helps?
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>>Pm
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