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MediaWiki::DumpFile::Compat::page(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation MediaWiki::DumpFile::Compat::page(3pm)

NAME

Parse::MediaWikiDump::page - Object representing a specific revision of a MediaWiki page

ABOUT

This object is returned from the "next" method of Parse::MediaWikiDump::Pages and Parse::MediaWikiDump::Revisions. You most likely will not be creating instances of this particular object yourself instead you use this object to access the information about a page in a MediaWiki instance.

SYNOPSIS

  use MediaWiki::DumpFile::Compat;
  
  $pages = Parse::MediaWikiDump::Pages->new('pages-articles.xml');
  
  #get all the records from the dump files, one record at a time
  while(defined($page = $pages->next)) {
    print "title '", $page->title, "' id ", $page->id, "\n";
  }

METHODS

$page->redirect
Returns an empty string (such as '') for the main namespace or a string containing the name of the namespace.
$page->categories
Returns a reference to an array that contains a list of categories or undef if there are no categories. This method does not understand templates and may not return all the categories the article actually belongs in.
$page->title
Returns a string of the full article title including the namespace if present
$page->namespace
Returns a string of the namespace of the article or an empty string if the article is in the default namespace
$page->id
Returns a number that is the id for the page in the MediaWiki instance
$page->revision_id
Returns a number that is the revision id for the page in the MediaWiki instance
$page->timestamp
Returns a string in the following format: 2005-07-09T18:41:10Z
$page->username
Returns a string of the username responsible for this specific revision of the article or undef if the editor was anonymous
$page->userid
Returns a number that is the id for the user returned by $page->username or undef if the editor was anonymous
$page->userip
Returns a string of the IP of the editor if the edit was anonymous or undef otherwise
$page->minor
Returns 1 if this article was flaged as a minor edit otherwise returns 0
$page->text
Returns a reference to a string that contains the article title text
2022-06-15 perl v5.34.0