First of all, I have no experience with php.
I installed wikimedia software in order to parse wikitext markup strings to html. Thus, I set an Apache server (localhost) and I am parsing the wikitext using api.php
from Pyhton (requests library).
Everything is working fine, but the point is that I would do the same using a RPC, or in other words, calling api.php
script from command line.
When sending the request the query is:
http://localhost/mediawiki-1.22.5/api.php?action=parse&text=ABC&format=xml&disablepp=1
This query parse the ABC
text.
I would do the same from the command line, and I tried different things, like:
$shell>php api.php ?action=parse&text=ABC&format=xml&disablepp=1
or
$shell>php api.php action=parse&text=ABC&format=xml&disablepp=1
...
The reason I am trying to call from command line is that since I am running the server locally, maybe executing directly the script will make things much faster, beyond the fact that I can use other PHP engines, like Facebook HipHop, transparently, I mean, without having to configure the web server.
Maybe the best solution should be to write a simple wrapper script in php which calls api.php internally and converts command args to "url gets". Unfortunately, since I am a complete layman in PHP I don't know how to code it.
Any help here?
P.S: Below the php.api source code:
<?php
/**
* This file is the entry point for all API queries.
*
* It begins by checking whether the API is enabled on this wiki; if not,
* it informs the user that s/he should set $wgEnableAPI to true and exits.
* Otherwise, it constructs a new ApiMain using the parameter passed to it
* as an argument in the URL ('?action=') and with write-enabled set to the
* value of $wgEnableWriteAPI as specified in LocalSettings.php.
* It then invokes "execute()" on the ApiMain object instance, which
* produces output in the format specified in the URL.
*
* Copyright © 2006 Yuri Astrakhan <Firstname><Lastname>@gmail.com
*
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
* it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
* the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
* (at your option) any later version.
*
* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
* GNU General Public License for more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
* with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
* 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
* http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
*
* @file
*/
// So extensions (and other code) can check whether they're running in API mode
define( 'MW_API', true );
// Bail if PHP is too low
if ( !function_exists( 'version_compare' ) || version_compare( phpversion(), '5.3.2' ) < 0 ) {
// We need to use dirname( __FILE__ ) here cause __DIR__ is PHP5.3+
require dirname( __FILE__ ) . '/includes/PHPVersionError.php';
wfPHPVersionError( 'api.php' );
}
// Initialise common code.
require __DIR__ . '/includes/WebStart.php';
wfProfileIn( 'api.php' );
$starttime = microtime( true );
// URL safety checks
if ( !$wgRequest->checkUrlExtension() ) {
return;
}
// Verify that the API has not been disabled
if ( !$wgEnableAPI ) {
header( $_SERVER['SERVER_PROTOCOL'] . ' 500 MediaWiki configuration Error', true, 500 );
echo 'MediaWiki API is not enabled for this site. Add the following line to your LocalSettings.php'
. '<pre><b>$wgEnableAPI=true;</b></pre>';
die( 1 );
}
// Set a dummy $wgTitle, because $wgTitle == null breaks various things
// In a perfect world this wouldn't be necessary
$wgTitle = Title::makeTitle( NS_MAIN, 'API' );
/* Construct an ApiMain with the arguments passed via the URL. What we get back
* is some form of an ApiMain, possibly even one that produces an error message,
* but we don't care here, as that is handled by the ctor.
*/
$processor = new ApiMain( RequestContext::getMain(), $wgEnableWriteAPI );
// Process data & print results
$processor->execute();
// Execute any deferred updates
DeferredUpdates::doUpdates();
// Log what the user did, for book-keeping purposes.
$endtime = microtime( true );
wfProfileOut( 'api.php' );
wfLogProfilingData();
// Log the request
if ( $wgAPIRequestLog ) {
$items = array(
wfTimestamp( TS_MW ),
$endtime - $starttime,
$wgRequest->getIP(),
$_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']
);
$items[] = $wgRequest->wasPosted() ? 'POST' : 'GET';
$module = $processor->getModule();
if ( $module->mustBePosted() ) {
$items[] = "action=" . $wgRequest->getVal( 'action' );
} else {
$items[] = wfArrayToCgi( $wgRequest->getValues() );
}
wfErrorLog( implode( ',', $items ) . "\n", $wgAPIRequestLog );
wfDebug( "Logged API request to $wgAPIRequestLog\n" );
}
// Shut down the database. foo()->bar() syntax is not supported in PHP4: we won't ever actually
// get here to worry about whether this should be = or =&, but the file has to parse properly.
$lb = wfGetLBFactory();
$lb->shutdown();