Mediawiki Documentation - get Article Text

Question

I am writing an extension for Mediawiki. If I know the page_id and page_title of an article, how do I get the first 50 odd words of the article? Is there a function defined to get the article text give the page_id?

Answer 1

Something like:

$article = new Article( Title::newFromText( 'Main_Page' ) ) ;
echo $article->getContent();

Grabbing just the first 50 words is left as an exercise for the reader.

Answer 2

If anyone is looking for more documentation, refer to:

http://svn.wikimedia.org/doc/