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How to manually call MediaWiki to convert wiki text to HTML?

I have a MediaWiki installation and I'm writing a custom script that reads some database entries and produces a custom output for client.

However, the text are in wiki format, and I need to convert them to HTML. Is there some PHP API I could call -- well there must be, but what and how exactly?

What files to include and what to call?

Solution

  • You use the global object $wgParser to do this:

    <?php

require(dirname(__FILE__) . '/includes/WebStart.php');

$output = $wgParser->parse(
    "some ''wikitext''",
    Title::newFromText('Some page title'),
    new ParserOptions());
echo $output->getText();

?>

    Although I have no idea whether doing it this way is a good practice, or whether there is some better way.