WikiConnect ParseWiki

A powerful PHP library for parsing MediaWiki-style content from raw wiki text.

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📚 Overview

This library allows you to extract:

• Templates (single, multiple, nested)
• Internal wiki links
• External links
• Citations (references)
• Categories (with or without display text) Perfect for handling wiki-formatted text in PHP projects.

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🗂️ Project Structure

• ParserTemplates: Parses multiple templates.
• ParserTemplate: Parses a single template.
• ParserInternalLinks: Parses internal wiki links.
• ParserExternalLinks: Parses external links.
• ParserCitations: Parses citations and references.
• ParserCategories: Parses categories from wiki text.
• DataModel classes:
  • Attribute
  • Citation
  • ExternalLink
  • InternalLink
  • Parameters
  • Template
• tests/: Contains PHPUnit test files:
  • ParserCategoriesTest
  • ParserCitationsTest
  • ParserExternalLinksTest
  • ParserInternalLinksTest
  • ParserTemplatesTest
  • ParserTemplateTest
  • DataModel tests:
    • AttributeTest
    • ParametersTest
    • TemplateTest

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🚀 Features

• ✅ Parse single and multiple templates.
• ✅ Support nested templates.
• ✅ Handle named and unnamed template parameters.
• ✅ Extract internal links with or without display text.
• ✅ Extract external links with or without labels.
• ✅ Parse citations including attributes and special characters.
• ✅ Parse categories, support custom namespaces, handle whitespaces and special characters.
• ✅ Full PHPUnit test coverage.

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🧩 Wikitext Features Support

Feature	Read ✅	Modify ✏️	Replace 🔄
Templates	✅ Yes	✅ Yes	✅ Yes
Parameters	✅ Yes	✅ Yes	✅ Yes
Citations	✅ Yes	✅ Yes	✅ Yes
Citations>Attributes	✅ Yes	✅ Yes	✅ Yes
Internal Links	✅ Yes
External Links	✅ Yes
Categories	✅ Yes
HTML Tags
Parser Functions
Tables
Sections
Magic Words

🟡 Note: Some features are partially supported or under development. Contributions are welcome!

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⚙️ Requirements

• PHP 8.0 or higher
• PHPUnit 9 or higher

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💻 Installation

composer require wiki-connect/parsewiki

Make sure you have proper PSR-4 autoloading for the WikiConnect\ParseWiki namespace.

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🧪 Running Tests

vendor/bin/phpunit tests

Test Coverage:

• Templates: Single, multiple, nested, named/unnamed parameters.
• Internal Links: Simple, with display text, special characters.
• External Links: With/without labels, multiple links, whitespace handling.
• Citations: With/without attributes, special characters.
• Categories: Simple, with display text, custom namespaces, whitespaces, special characters.

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✨ Example Usage

Parsing Templates

use WikiConnect\ParseWiki\ParserTemplates;

$text = '{{Infobox person|name=John Doe|birth_date=1990-01-01}}';

$parser = new ParserTemplates($text);
$templates = $parser->getTemplates();

foreach ($templates as $template) {
    echo $template->getName();
    print_r($template->getParameters());
}

Parsing and Editing a single Template

use WikiConnect\ParseWiki\ParserTemplate;

$text = '{{Infobox_Person|name=John Doe|birth_date=1990-01-01}}';

$parser = new ParserTemplate($text);
$template = $parser->getTemplate();

// Edit the template
$template->setName('Infobox person');
$template->parameters->set('birth_place', '[[New York City|New York]]');

$new_template = $template->toString();
echo $new_template; // {{Infobox person|name=John Doe|birth_date=1990-01-01|birth_place=[[New York City|New York]]}

Parsing Internal Links

use WikiConnect\ParseWiki\ParserInternalLinks;

$text = 'See [[Main Page|the main page]] and [[Help]].';

$parser = new ParserInternalLinks($text);
$links = $parser->getTargets();

foreach ($links as $link) {
    echo 'Target: ' . $link->getTarget() . PHP_EOL;
    echo 'Text: ' . ($link->getText() ?? $link->getTarget()) . PHP_EOL;
}

Parsing External Links

use WikiConnect\ParseWiki\ParserExternalLinks;

$text = 'Visit [https://example.com Example Site] and [https://nolabel.com].';

$parser = new ParserExternalLinks($text);
$links = $parser->getLinks();

foreach ($links as $link) {
    echo 'URL: ' . $link->getLink() . PHP_EOL;
    echo 'Label: ' . ($link->getText() ?: 'No label') . PHP_EOL;
}

Parsing Citations

use WikiConnect\ParseWiki\ParserCitations;

$text = 'Some text with a citation.<ref name="source">This is a citation</ref>';

$parser = new ParserCitations($text);
$citations = $parser->getCitations();

foreach ($citations as $citation) {
    echo 'Content: ' . $citation->getContent() . PHP_EOL;
    echo 'Attributes: ' . $citation->getAttributes() . PHP_EOL;
}

Parsing Categories

use WikiConnect\ParseWiki\ParserCategories;

$text = 'Some text [[Category:Science]] and [[Category:Math|Displayed]].';

$parser = new ParserCategories($text);
$categories = $parser->getCategories();

foreach ($categories as $category) {
    echo 'Category: ' . $category . PHP_EOL;
}

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🙌 Author

Developed with ❤️ by Gerges.