Wikimate

Wikimate is a PHP wrapper for the MediaWiki Action API that aims to be very easy to use. It currently consists of three classes:

• Wikimate – Serves as a loader and manager for different wiki objects (e.g. pages).
• WikiPage – Provides an interface to getting/editing pages or sections of them.
• WikiFile – Provides an interface to downloading/uploading files and getting their properties.

The latest released version of Wikimate is v1.1.0, released on July 30, 2023. It requires PHP v5.3 or newer and MediaWiki v1.27 or newer. See CHANGELOG.md for the detailed version history.

Installation

Requirements: PHP, and Composer.

Before anything else, since Wikimate is written in PHP, a server-side language, you will need to have PHP installed to run it. Install it with your preferred package management tool (for example, on Ubuntu Linux you can run: sudo apt-get install php)

The recommended way to install this library is with Composer. Composer is a dependency management tool for PHP that allows you to declare the dependencies your project needs and installs them into your project.

Install Composer by following the instructions here.

Then, run the following command in your project's folder to download Wikimate and initialise it:

composer require hamstar/Wikimate

(or composer.bat require hamstar/Wikimate if you're on Windows).

To use Wikimate within another project, you can add it as a Composer dependency by adding the following to your existing composer.json file:

{
    "require": {
        "hamstar/Wikimate": "^1.1"
    }
}

You can find out more on how to install Composer, configure autoloading, and other best-practices for defining dependencies at getcomposer.org.

Usage

In your script file (e.g. index.php), include the project's autoload.php file, and create a new Wikimate object with the target wiki's API address. Then provide a username and password to Wikimate's login method, to log in to that wiki.

require __DIR__.'/vendor/autoload.php';

$api_url = 'https://example.com/w/api.php';
$username = 'bot';
$password = 'password';

$wiki = new Wikimate($api_url);

// You can also pass the domain name:
// $wiki->login($username, $password, $domainName)
if ($wiki->login($username, $password))
	echo 'Success: user logged in.' ;
else {
	$error = $wiki->getError();
	echo "<b>Wikimate error</b>: ".$error['auth'];
}

This example uses echo statements to output any potential errors. You should get a meaningful error message if the authentication fails. Assuming you were able to log in, you're now ready to fully use the API.

See USAGE.md for detailed example code to perform common tasks.

Contributing

As an open source project, Wikimate welcomes community contributions. Please see CONTRIBUTING.md for information on how to contribute.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT license. See LICENSE.md for details.