> From: Platonides <[email protected]>> Ron Laufer wrote:> >>> 2) Is it
> possible to use SSI in MW without it being stripped out? I've tried
> commenting out the "removeHTMLcomments" function in Sanitizer.php, but the
> HTML comment with the SSI in it still doesn't show up when I view source on
> the wiki display page in my browser. Even if it did, since the page doesn't
> have an shtml extension, I'm fairly sure it won't work.> > Has anyone done
> this and can you talk a n00b through it?> > No.> Implement whatever you want
> to get with a Server Side Include directly> in php, or via an extension.> >
> OK, then do you have a suggestion of how I can do the following in php or in
> an extension?> > I have a dbman database, it's written in perl and accessible
> via CGI. I would like to have each wiki page display the info on the
> associated record in the database (if it exists) at the top of the page,
> above the user generated content.> > I wrote a script that combs the xml dump
> of the wiki and the dbman database and matches up wiki pages to database
> records, inserts an SSI link to the database for pages that match up, and
> creates wiki pages for database records that don't have them. It's output is
> an xml that I was successfully able to import into MW, except that all the
> SSI got stripped out. (In fact, all comments got stripped out. I'd like to be
> able to keep them to note when the last import is and tell users not to edit
> the database link)> > I was able to add comments manually via the wiki, but
> as mentioned, they don't show up when I view source on the final product,
> only when I edit the page via MW.> > I'm new to MW and php, but a fairly
> competent hacker in general. Any help that at least points me in the right
> direction would be much appreciated.> > That's not too easy, since you want
> to perform a web server subrequest.> You can do that with
> virtual(<filename>); but that will only work if you> are using apache with
> mod_php.> A more portable way would be trying to launch the perl interpreter
> from> php, on the lines of system("/usr/bin/perl <filename>"); but that may
> or> may not work, depending on the script.
OK, apologies if this is a stupid question, but where would that "system" line
go? (my host doesn't support mod_php) In the wiki page? or in a php file
somewhere? and if so, how do I get the wiki software to call this php file?
Thanks,
Ron
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