What resources or documentation should be consulted when trying to automate article creation in Mediawiki using PHP?

When trying to automate article creation in Mediawiki using PHP, it is recommended to consult the Mediawiki API documentation to understand how to interact with the Mediawiki software programmatically. Additionally, the PHP documentation can be useful for understanding how to make HTTP requests and handle responses in PHP code. It may also be helpful to look at examples of similar automation scripts or plugins for Mediawiki to get an idea of best practices. 

// Example PHP code snippet to create an article in Mediawiki using the API

$apiUrl = 'https://your-wiki-site.com/api.php';
$articleTitle = 'New_Article_Title';
$articleContent = 'This is the content of the new article.';

$data = [
    'action' => 'edit',
    'title' => $articleTitle,
    'text' => $articleContent,
    'token' => 'YOUR_EDIT_TOKEN',
    'format' => 'json'
];

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $apiUrl);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, http_build_query($data));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

$response = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

$result = json_decode($response, true);

if(isset($result['edit']['result']) && $result['edit']['result'] == 'Success') {
    echo 'Article created successfully!';
} else {
    echo 'Failed to create article. Error: ' . $result['error']['info'];
}

Keywords

Mediawiki PHP automation article creation documentation

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