On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 08:56:59PM -0400, Dan Collins wrote: > > Hey Mike, and welcome to the wonderful world of the MediaWiki API! > > You are correct, that should work for you. Make sure that $page really > contains the article name you want to save to, and if you're still > having problems, please post the output of the program if you insert > > use Data::Dumper; print "$wikiaddurl\n"; print Dumper(\%post); > > or equivalent, right before you actually make the post request, > removing the edittoken for security reasons, that way you and I can > see what you are actually sending to the server. > > HOWEVER, there is an easier way. Rather than using the API directly, > there are a number of preexisting perl modules which allow you to > easily interface with any MediaWiki wiki. Use CPAN to look up > MediaWiki::Bot, which is a complete class, providing you with a login > function, an edit function, and many more. If you need any help with > that module, or would like to see an example script, you can contact > me directly. > > Hope that helps! >
ST47, Thanks for getting back to me. I've been doing some major debugging today. I have setup a test wiki since I want to test the code before decimating a live wiki, so I decided I'd just upgrade to the latest code, in case it was a problem in that version. This didn't resolve the problem. I setup a new MediaWiki install from scratch on another server and this time it worked. This narrowed the problem down to either the DB or the config file. After a diff of the config file and some experimenting, it came down to the setting of $wgArticlePath. I have clean URLs configured and so have it set to $wgArticlePath = '/$1'; This torpedoes the API code. If I comment it out, my code works as expected, uncomment it and I end up with the data written to Api.php again. This appears to be the symptom. I haven't been able to identify the cause yet. I've done a quick Google and there does appear to be some stories of the API code causing some agro with paths. Namely this: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=484855 I need to do a little more digging into the actual cause though. I don't know if you have any ideas? Mike.
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