Talk:Wiki.pl

The key information we need is regarding the structure of the html content containing the fields we need to match, because we need to construct a regexp for each which works for all the version differences. eg. see the info at the end of this page regarding the edit-form differences --Nad 22:48, 26 Jun 2006 (NZST)

Urls

NOTE: All urls should use long format and never assume "friendly urls". Long format appears to be generally consistent across all versions.

wikiLogin Query index.php?title=Special:Userlogin&returnto=Main_Page Response index.php?title=Special:Userlogin&action=submitlogin&type=login&returnto=Main_Page Comments Dont need a returnto=[Previous Article] wikiPageEdit Query index.php?title=Main_Page&action=edit Response index.php?title=Main_Page&action=submit wikiLastEdit Query index.php?title=Main_Page&action=history&limit=1 wikiRawPage Query index.php?title=Main_Page&action=raw wikiGetVersion Query; index.php?title=Special:Version wikiLogout index.php?title=Special:Userlogout&returnto=Main_page

Todo

• Sync direction
• Wikilogin only if not logged in

---

Wiki version

Couldnt see any functions which determine the wiki version that wikid is accessing, this could be useful. --Sven 15:09, 7 Jun 2006 (NZST)

I don't think we should need it, I think that they're all similar enough that the regexp's should be able to be generalised to cover them all. --Nad 12:08, 26 Jun 2006 (NZST)

I will continue documenting url changes between versions partly for my own understanding and to easily create regEx's --Sven 12:54, 26 Jun 2006 (NZST)

Well differences in URL's would require a version check like you say, but they're nothing to do with the regexps, those are matching the html content, not the urls --Nad 13:26, 26 Jun 2006 (NZST)

Bugger, thats true --Sven 13:30, 26 Jun 2006 (NZST)

Modifications to work with MediaWiki 1.6.5

I've installed the latest MediaWiki on a site at the Uni and was using some of your automated wikiLogon, wikiEdit code. I discovered that they have changed the login form slightly and the regexp provided in this article did not work. So here is the modified line of code that I have tested and it works. I'm not sure how best to integrate this. I have a feeling the regexp could be generalised to deal with both cases. I was tripped up by the forward matching style of the source HTML where the value comes before the key, but making the last bit greedy fixed it, providing the Token is the last thing in the form we want to grab.

/^<input type='hidden' value="(.*?)" name="wpSection".+?value="(\d*?)"
name="wpEdittime".+<input type='hidden' value="(.*?)" name="wpEditToken"/sm

--Rob 14:00, 15 May 2006 (NZST)