Extension talk:External Data/Archive 2017 to 2018

Not Working
any idea why? it's installed in Special:Version, but it doesn't show anything (xml works fine): http://www.komentarz.org/pl/test


 * You also need to set the "data" parameter. Yaron Koren 22:36, 2 February 2011 (UTC)

so if this is my xml feed, what data should i type? name of the xml node? http://www.komentarz.org/smw/api.php?action=query&list=threads&format=xml


 * I don't want to sound rude, but - have you read the documentation? Yaron Koren 00:59, 4 February 2011 (UTC)

sure, i found this fragment but i think a clear example of getting rss xml feed in documentation would be helpful. i still can't get it to work.your extension would be a perfect rss reader (other extension doesn't work or are unstable): For data from XML sources, the variable names are determined by both tag and attribute names. For example, given the following XML text:  red the variable type would have the value Apple, and the variable color would have the value red. Similarly, the following XML text would be interpreted as a table of values defining two variables named type and color:  red  brown


 * Well, in any case, a more reasonable value for "data=" would be "data=thread=thread,subject=subject". Yaron Koren 23:37, 4 February 2011 (UTC)

Sort results
Any way to sort results returned from #get_db_data?


 * I don't think so, but it might definitely be worthwhile to have a way for users to add an "ORDER BY" command to the SELECT call... Yaron Koren 01:00, 4 February 2011 (UTC)


 * It certainly would! Could you provide that? Matheus Garcia 17:53, 15 February 2011 (UTC)