Getting Namespaces

The Name Space Getter allows you to search for namespaces and their aliases and to list all namespaces of a wiki.

To use it, first get a new NamespaceGetter object from the factory:

$api = new \Mediawiki\Api\MediawikiApi( 'http://localhost/w/api.php' );
$services = new \Mediawiki\Api\MediawikiFactory( $api );
$namespaceGetter = $services->newNamespaceGetter();

Looking for a namespace

If you’ve got a page name like File:awesome_cats.jpg and want to know its namespace ID and possible localized names and aliases, use the following code:

$fileNamespace = $namespaceGetter->getNamespaceByName( 'File' );
printf( "Name in local language: %s\n", $fileNamespace->getLocalName() );
printf( "Possible aliases: %s\n", implode( ', ', $fileNamespace->getAliases() ) );
// ... etc

getNamespaceByName accepts the canonical name, the local name and aliases. If you want to match only the canonical name, use getNamespaceByCanonicalName instead.

Getting a namespaced page

If you have a page title that is not in the default namespace, you can’t pass the page name string PageGetter but must construct a Title object instead:

$pageName = 'User:MalReynolds';
$nameParts = explode( ':', $pageName, 2 );
$namespace = $namespaceGetter->getNamespaceByName( $nameParts[0] );
$title = new \Mediawiki\DataModel\Title( $nameParts[1], $namespace->getId() );
$page = $services->newPageGetter()->getFromTitle( $title );

Listing all namespaces

foreach( $namespaceGetter->getNamespaces() as $namespace ) {
   echo $namespace->getLocalName() .  "\n";
}