NAME

CMS::MediaWiki - Perl extension for creating and updating MediaWiki pages

SYNOPSIS

  use CMS::MediaWiki;

  my $mw = CMS::MediaWiki->new(
	host  => 'localhost',
	path  => 'wiki' ,     # -- E<gt> Can be empty
	debug => 0            # -- E<gt> 0 (no debug msgs), 1 or 2 (more msgs)
  );

DESCRIPTION

Login example

$rc = $mw->login( user => 'Reto' , pass => 'yourpass' );

Another login example

$rc = $mw->login(
	host => 'localhost' ,  # optional here, but wins if (re-)set here
	path => 'wiki',        # optional here, but wins
	user => 'Reto' ,
	pass => 'yourpass' ,
);

Edit a Wiki page

	$rc = $mw->editPage(
		title   => 'Online_Directory:Computers:Software:Internet:Authoring' ,

	    	section => '' ,	#  2 means edit second section etc.
        	                # '' = no section means edit the full page

        	text    => "== foo ==\nbar foo\n\n",

		summary => "Your summary." ,
	);

In general, $rc returns 0 on success unequal 0 on failure.

Tip

After a successful call of the editPage function you had the following information available:

print "Edit time (before) was ", $mw->get('EDIT_TIME_BEFORE'), "\n";
print "Page title was "        , $mw->get('PAGE_TITLE')      , "\n";
print "The Wiki name was "     , $mw->get('WIKI_NAME')       , "\n";

EXPORT

None by default.

SEE ALSO

http://www.infocopter.com/perl/modules/

http://www.infocopter.com/know-how/mediawiki-reference/Perl-CMS-MediaWiki.html

AUTHOR

Reto Schär, <retoh@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2005 by Reto Schär

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.6 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.

http://www.infocopter.com/perl/licencing.html