Jim,

Thanks for your reply.  This seems like a pretty tough solution.  I was hoping 
for something a little more elegant / easy to use, but I'll take it into 
consideration.

Thanks,

Dan

On Aug 10, 2011, at 11:02 AM, Jim Laurino wrote:

> On 08/10/2011 09:05:41 AM, Dan Sullivan - [email protected] wrote:
>> Yeah, I found the documentation on transclusion, but transclusion uses Wiki 
>> syntax.  I want to include the article in a PHP page that is not actually 
>> part of the wiki.
> 
> I think one possibility would be to call the mediawiki api from within your 
> php code to get mediawiki to return the wikitext transformed to a form you 
> could then embed in the page you are assembling, possibly with some 
> additional editing in your php. 
> 
> For instance, I think you could even embed your own custom markers in your 
> wikitext, possibly within <nowiki> tags, to indicate parts that your php 
> could process specially. You should be able to use the already defined 
> includeonly and noinclude markers to accomplish those particular jobs in your 
> php process.
> 
> Jim
> 
>> 
>> Dan
>> 
>> On Aug 10, 2011, at 3:34 AM, Rick Payton wrote:
>> 
>>> Transclusion is what you're after I believe.
>>> 
>>> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Transclusion
>>> 
>>> Basically, you have an articles named Cat that you want displayed on the
>>> front page, so you would literally add the following to your front page:
>>> {{:Cat}} - be warned that doing so will include the ENTIRE article.
>>> There may be a way to show only a part of the article, but I don't know
>>> how to do that.
>>> 
>>> Hope this helps.
>>> 
>>> Rick Payton, I.T. Manager
>>> Morikawa & Associates, LLC
>>> (808) 572-1745 Office
>>> (808) 442-0978 eFax
>>> (808) 344-8249 Mobile
>>> www.mai-hawaii.com 
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: [email protected]
>>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dan
>>> Sullivan
>>> Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2011 4:37 PM
>>> To: [email protected]
>>> Subject: [Mediawiki-l] "In-line"-ing article
>>> 
>>> Hi, Everybody,
>>> 
>>> I apologize if this is a noob question; I actually consider myself
>>> pretty good at digging this type of thing up but after hours upon hours
>>> of googling I'm still unable to come up with an answer to what I would
>>> think would be a seemingly simple question to answer.  Basically I am
>>> building a personal website and I would like to use media wiki to store
>>> some documentation that I am generating.  I have a little menu bar at
>>> the top of my page; its pretty simple, just HTML & CSS with tables
>>> generated by PHP.  If you really want to see it you can just go here
>>> http://128.135.217.176.  Nothing fancy.  Anyway,  what I would like to
>>> be able to do would be to 'in-line' an article into this page, but
>>> without having to use frames or anything like that.  The 'body' section
>>> of  my page is basically just a cell of a table.  So the actual
>>> 'in-line' PHP code would have to be between  a couple of <td> tags. 
>>> 
>>> Anyway, it seems pretty easy to do this using for example, wordpress,
>>> using the integration features described here.
>>> http://codex.wordpress.org/Integrating_WordPress_with_Your_Website.  Is
>>> there a way to do anything like this with a mediawiki article?  
>>> 
>>> I apologize if this is such a silly question.
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> 
>>> Dan
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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