How to create a page periodically using wiki bot - php

Question

My prime aim is to get a page , parse the text and create a subpage periodically depending on the text. To get a page ,create and login, i have the following code .Php version-5.3.3,server:localhost
private function login($username, $password, $wiki) {
$response = $this->postAPI($wiki, 'api.php?', 'action=login&lgname=' . urlencode($username) . '&lgpassword=' . urlencode($password));
if ($response['login']['result'] == "Success") {
//Unpatched server, all done
} elseif ($response['login']['result'] == "NeedToken") {
//Patched server, going fine
$token = $response['login']['token'];
$newresponse = $this->postAPI($wiki, 'api.php?', 'action=login&lgname=' . urlencode($username) . '&lgpassword=' . urlencode($password) . '&lgtoken=' . $token);
if ($newresponse['login']['result'] == "Success") {
//All done
} else {
echo "Forced by server to wait. Automatically trying again.<br />\n";
sleep(10);
$this->login($username, $password, $wiki);
}
} else {
//Problem
if (isset($response['login']['wait']) || (isset($response['error']['code']) && $response['error']['code'] == "maxlag")) {
echo "Forced by server to wait. Automatically trying again.<br />\n";
sleep(10);
$this->login($username, $password, $wiki);
} else {
die("Login failed: " . $response . "\r<br />\n");
}
}
}
Function to get a page is:
public function get_page($page, $wiki = "")//get page's content
{
$response = $this->callAPI($wiki, 'api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&titles=' . urlencode($page) . '&rvprop=content');
if (is_array($response)) {
$array = $response['query']['pages'];
$array = array_shift($array);
$pageid = $array["pageid"];
return $response['query']['pages'][$pageid]['revisions'][0]["*"];
} else {
echo "Unknown get_page error.<br />\n";
return false;
}
}
I have a problem with login. I always get Forced by server to wait. Automatically trying again regardless my password and id is correct. Infact the URI works properly if given manually.And if i try to create a page or get a category, i get the following error:
Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at serverlocation/Phpwikibot.php:188) in serverlocation/includes/WebResponse.php
Can some one help me with this issue?

Answer 1

You say "localhost", so you have server-side access and you should be using the internal PHP API, not the web API. In particular, to edit a page you can use maintenance/edit.php. See a real world example I used for some Wikimedia wikis:
#!/bin/bash
{
# Stuff
# Fetch stuff
echo -e $stuff
} | php edit.php --user "FuzzyBot" \
--bot --summary "Update stats" "Meta:Babylon/Translation_stats"