Extension talk:External Data

Get template data from another wiki
Hello, Can I use this extension to do a semantic query from another site?

If I have a a page "Foo" on SiteA that contains a template "Foo" as: and I want to create a page on SiteB called "Foo Status" that contains a template "Foo" as:

is this possible?


 * Yes - if the source wiki stores its data via either SMW or Cargo, both of those extensions provide an API of sorts to let you get query results in either CSV or JSON formats, either of which is parseable by External Data. Yaron Koren (talk) 18:46, 17 April 2019 (UTC)


 * Thanks, Yaron. Any chance you could point me to an SMW example of this? :-)


 * I can't think of one. Yaron Koren (talk) 02:18, 18 April 2019 (UTC)

prerequisites for getting LDAP data
Hi.

I'm trying to use the #get_ldap_data: function of "External Data" to get LDAP attributes about my users and I'm getting the following error: Fatal error: Call to undefined function ldap_connect in /opt/htdocs/mediawiki/extensions/ExternalData/ED_Utils.php on line 136

A quick "grep -R ldap_connect" in the "extensions/External Data" folder shows only a use-call to ldap_connect and nothing anywhere actually defining it.

A quick search online of "ldap_connect" seems to indicate that it is defined in the PHP module "PHP-LDAP"

A quick inspection of my phpinfo page shows that the php-ldap module is not loaded.

Before I install the php-ldap module on my system, can someone confirm that php-ldap is indeed a pre-requisite for the #get_ldap_data: function of "External Data" to work.

Poor man's Sync from WikiA to WikiB
Hi.

Can I use this extension as a real-time clone of a page in one wiki to another?

For example, Mediawiki Site A has a page called "Foo" with arbitrary text.

Can I create a page called "Foo" on another wiki that contains something like:

and functionally get a copy of the page Foo on Site A?


 * Well, I'm pretty you can get the right wikitext - after all, a single piece of text is valid CSV. Whether it'll display correctly is a different story - template calls won't work, for instance, unless you have a local copy of those templates. It's probably easier to just do an iframe, using one of the iframe-supporting extensions, with "action=render" on the source URL to leave out the skin. Yaron Koren (talk) 02:25, 18 April 2019 (UTC)