Wikipedia XML -> PHP?

How would I get this Wikipedia XML:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special...lastair_Ralphs into a PHP
variable (without copy and pasting it manually)?

Thanks,

Cain.

Cain wrote:

> How would I get this Wikipedia XML:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special...lastair_Ralphs into a PHP
> variable (without copy and pasting it manually)?

Use file_get_contents():

http://us3.php.net/manual/en/functio...t-contents.php

By the way... if you're going to be doing a lot of work with Wikipedia's
data, please download your own copy of the database:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...abase_download
http://download.wikimedia.org/

Not only will your scripts run faster, but it will also take some strain off
of Wikipedia's servers.

HTH,
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"Benjamin Esham" <bdesham@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:Ea2Mg.103$Ka1.58@news01.roc.ny...
> Cain wrote:
>
>> How would I get this Wikipedia XML:
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special...lastair_Ralphs into a PHP
>> variable (without copy and pasting it manually)?
>
> Use file_get_contents():
>
> http://us3.php.net/manual/en/functio...t-contents.php
>
> By the way... if you're going to be doing a lot of work with Wikipedia's
> data, please download your own copy of the database:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...abase_download
> http://download.wikimedia.org/

I don't want to download the entire database, I only want some of the
articles. Can someone please tell me how I can get these articles into a
MySQL database?

Thanks,

Cain.

>>>>> "Cain" <Cain34345@243K4ooko342o.net> (C) wrote:

>C> How would I get this Wikipedia XML:
>C> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special...lastair_Ralphs into a PHP
>C> variable (without copy and pasting it manually)?

You mean the contents of the document that the URL points to?

$url = "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Export/Alastair_Ralphs";
$handle = fopen($url, "r");
$contents = stream_get_contents($handle);
fclose($handle);

or use file_get_contents.
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Piet van Oostrum wrote:
>>>>>> "Cain" <Cain34345@243K4ooko342o.net> (C) wrote:
>
>> C> How would I get this Wikipedia XML:
>> C> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special...lastair_Ralphs into a PHP
>> C> variable (without copy and pasting it manually)?
>
> You mean the contents of the document that the URL points to?
>
> $url = "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Export/Alastair_Ralphs";
> $handle = fopen($url, "r");
> $contents = stream_get_contents($handle);
> fclose($handle);
>
> or use file_get_contents.
This is not a solution that you maybe looking for but here goes. The
Eclipse IDE has a wikipedia Plugin that will pert much let you download
change and upload.. There is much more to to this plugin. I figured I
would let you be aware of it.

Naturally the Eclipse link is:
http://www.eclipse.org/downloads

The plugin link is here:
http://www.plog4u.org/index.php/Main_Page

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Thanks in Advance...
IchBin, Pocono Lake, Pa, USA http://weconsultants.phpnet.us
'If there is one, Knowledge is the "Fountain of Youth"'
-William E. Taylor, Regular Guy (1952-)

Piet van Oostrum wrote:
>>>>>> "Cain" <Cain34345@243K4ooko342o.net> (C) wrote:
>
>> C> How would I get this Wikipedia XML:
>> C> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special...lastair_Ralphs into a PHP
>> C> variable (without copy and pasting it manually)?
>
> You mean the contents of the document that the URL points to?
>
> $url = "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Export/Alastair_Ralphs";
> $handle = fopen($url, "r");
> $contents = stream_get_contents($handle);
> fclose($handle);
>
> or use file_get_contents.

This is not a solution that you maybe looking for but here goes. The
Eclipse IDE has a wikipedia Plugin that will pert much let you download
change and upload.. There is much more to to this plugin. I figured I
would let you be aware of it.

Naturally the Eclipse link is:
http://www.eclipse.org/downloads

The plugin link is here (Plog4U):
http://www.plog4u.org/index.php/Main_Page

--
Thanks in Advance...
IchBin, Pocono Lake, Pa, USA http://weconsultants.phpnet.us
'If there is one, Knowledge is the "Fountain of Youth"'
-William E. Taylor, Regular Guy (1952-)

> The
> Eclipse IDE has a wikipedia Plugin that will pert much let you download
> change and upload..

Thanks for this although I've not got it working yet.

I'm following these steps from
http://www.plog4u.org/index.php/Usin...ipedia_Article

"Example: grabbing a wikibooks.org article
a.. create a new index.wp file under your projects /wpsrc directory
b.. write a Wiki link definition somewhere in the editor, for example:
[[Programming:HTML]]
c.. do a "right mouse" click on the link and select menu Open Wiki Link
d.. a new file with the corresponding *.wp filename should open.
e.. do a "right mouse" click on the file name in the Navigator View' and
select menu Wikipedia Download->Refresh Wikipedia from Web
f.. in the opening dialog box select WikibooksEN Download"

However I when I do the last step I don't get any URLs in the opening dialog
box.

Can you help?

Thanks,

Cain.