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[Phpwiki-talk] How to output a non-HTML file from a plugin?

[Lea V. <vil...@cs...>]

I have created a plugin that basically creates a bibtex file
from a set of pages linked to a master page (*). It works and 
currently generates a normal looking Wiki page with the
bibtex entries.

However, since real bibtex files are not HTML files, I'd like 
my plugin to output a plain text page instead of HTML so we
could just save the file to the disk as such.  Generating
a file to the Wiki server disk is not ideal, since all Wiki users 
do not have file access to the server. 

Any hints?

(*) Basically this is very idiotic functionality, i.e. read a list
     of linked pages and extract sections of type
    @whatever{...
	....
    }
    from each linked page.

-- 
Lea 'LadyBug' Viljanen			Ignorance killed the cat,
Researcher, TuBE-project		curiosity was framed.
Univ. of Helsinki, Dept. of CS

Re: [Phpwiki-talk] How to output a non-HTML file from a plugin?

[Reini U. <ru...@x-...>]

Lea Viljanen schrieb:
> I have created a plugin that basically creates a bibtex file
> from a set of pages linked to a master page (*). It works and 
> currently generates a normal looking Wiki page with the
> bibtex entries.
> 
> However, since real bibtex files are not HTML files, I'd like 
> my plugin to output a plain text page instead of HTML so we
> could just save the file to the disk as such.  Generating
> a file to the Wiki server disk is not ideal, since all Wiki users 
> do not have file access to the server. 
> 
> Any hints?

Let the users download their pages with ?action=zip.
At the PhpWikiAdministration page.
If you want to have everything in your plugin, look at the 
lib/loadsave.php code.
MakeWikiZip() with the request argument pages="Page1,Page2,...".

> (*) Basically this is very idiotic functionality, i.e. read a list
>      of linked pages and extract sections of type
>     @whatever{...
> 	....
>     }
>     from each linked page.
> 


-- 
Reini Urban
http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/

Re: [Phpwiki-talk] How to output a non-HTML file from a plugin?

[Lea V. <vil...@cs...>]

On Friday 20 August 2004 13:04, Reini Urban wrote:

> If you want to have everything in your plugin, look at the
> lib/loadsave.php code.
> MakeWikiZip() with the request argument pages="Page1,Page2,...".

I made some experiments and also looked at PageDump plugin.

The problem is that I have a wiki page that is dynamically
created by <?plugin CreateBib?> (this plugin invocation is the 
whole contents of the page) and all the stuff having pagenames 
as arguments do not seem to like that. At best with the zip method 
I get the literal page contents but not the dynamically generated 
bibtex stuff.

-- 
Lea 'LadyBug' Viljanen			Ignorance killed the cat,
Researcher, TuBE-project		curiosity was framed.
Univ. of Helsinki, Dept. of CS

Re: [Phpwiki-talk] How to output a non-HTML file from a plugin?

[Reini U. <ru...@x-...>]

Lea Viljanen schrieb:

> On Friday 20 August 2004 13:04, Reini Urban wrote:
> 
> 
>>If you want to have everything in your plugin, look at the
>>lib/loadsave.php code.
>>MakeWikiZip() with the request argument pages="Page1,Page2,...".
> 
> 
> I made some experiments and also looked at PageDump plugin.
> 
> The problem is that I have a wiki page that is dynamically
> created by <?plugin CreateBib?> (this plugin invocation is the 
> whole contents of the page) and all the stuff having pagenames 
> as arguments do not seem to like that. At best with the zip method 
> I get the literal page contents but not the dynamically generated 
> bibtex stuff.

so your CreateBib plugin has to generate an bibtex download action 
button also, which dumps the bibtex to the client.
-- 
Reini Urban
http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/

Re: [Phpwiki-talk] How to output a non-HTML file from a plugin?

[Lea V. <vil...@cs...>]

On Friday 20 August 2004 15:32, Reini Urban wrote:

> so your CreateBib plugin has to generate an bibtex download action
> button also, which dumps the bibtex to the client.

OK, I created the button, but how can I refer to the contents
of that dynamic page as a whole? I understand that I need to 
call MailifyPage or something equivalent to strip the HTML, 
but that needs a page contents reference. How can I get it without
doing getPage(), getCurrentRevision(), getContents() sequence
which does not seem to work for dynamic pages.

Sorry if this is obvious, but this is my first PHP / PHPWiki effort. 
I really appreciate the help.

-- 
Lea 'LadyBug' Viljanen			Ignorance killed the cat,
Researcher, TuBE-project		curiosity was framed.
Univ. of Helsinki, Dept. of CS