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==Possible very cool PHP thing== | |||
[[User:Steven J. Koch|Steve Koch]] 01:54, 30 January 2009 (EST): Hey Caleb, in our physics department, we have a PHP data base for all our demos. See: http://www4.unm.edu/physics/demos/demos.php?section=Mechanics. I wish it were a wiki so instructors could easily fix things. What do you think the prospects are for easily doing the following: | |||
* I get you access to the existing data base. (Or send it to you, if that's possible, I have no idea what PHP is.) | |||
* You write some kind of script or something to transfer all the data over to a MediaWiki thing, so that each entry is it's own page. | |||
I have no idea if this would be too difficult. I thought perhaps it'd be easy, given that MW uses PHP, so that's why I'm asking. Thanks! | |||
[[User:Cmorse|Cmorse]] 19:40, 30 January 2009 (EST) This sounds like something i could try taking a look at. If you can get me the php files and a database dump from the server I can take a look at it.<br /> | |||
* PHP is just an interpreted programming language, so they should just be text files on the server. Also, PHP isn't a database; you just use PHP to access an existing database. | |||
==Media wiki note== | |||
[[User:Steven J. Koch|Steve Koch]] 13:35, 31 December 2008 (EST): Hey Caleb, here is the starting page we created today: [[Koch Lab:Research/MediaWiki for Open Science]] | [[User:Steven J. Koch|Steve Koch]] 13:35, 31 December 2008 (EST): Hey Caleb, here is the starting page we created today: [[Koch Lab:Research/MediaWiki for Open Science]] | ||
Latest revision as of 19:30, 30 January 2009
Possible very cool PHP thing
Steve Koch 01:54, 30 January 2009 (EST): Hey Caleb, in our physics department, we have a PHP data base for all our demos. See: http://www4.unm.edu/physics/demos/demos.php?section=Mechanics. I wish it were a wiki so instructors could easily fix things. What do you think the prospects are for easily doing the following:
- I get you access to the existing data base. (Or send it to you, if that's possible, I have no idea what PHP is.)
- You write some kind of script or something to transfer all the data over to a MediaWiki thing, so that each entry is it's own page.
I have no idea if this would be too difficult. I thought perhaps it'd be easy, given that MW uses PHP, so that's why I'm asking. Thanks!
Cmorse 19:40, 30 January 2009 (EST) This sounds like something i could try taking a look at. If you can get me the php files and a database dump from the server I can take a look at it.
- PHP is just an interpreted programming language, so they should just be text files on the server. Also, PHP isn't a database; you just use PHP to access an existing database.
Media wiki note
Steve Koch 13:35, 31 December 2008 (EST): Hey Caleb, here is the starting page we created today: Koch Lab:Research/MediaWiki for Open Science
