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

📚 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.

🗂️ 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

🚀 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.

🧩 Wikitext Features Support

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

⚙️ Requirements

• PHP 8.0 or higher
• PHPUnit 9 or higher

💻 Installation

composer require wiki-connect/parsewiki

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

🧪 Running Tests

vendor/bin/phpunit tests