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 >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> MediaWiki-l mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> MediaWiki-l mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> MediaWiki-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l >> >> >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
