README.md

PHP wikipedia articles downloader & PDF converter (based on Dompdf 0.8.5 - https://github.com/dompdf/dompdf/releases/tag/v0.8.5)

The main purpose is to obtain & convert & download as PDF-files the articles, contained within certain div in a given initial Wiki-article, passed via input.

Example:

Modus operandi

1. Processes an URL passed from the input.

$url = urldecode($_POST["initialArticle"]);

Creates a DB table title removing wrong charachters

 $tableName = substr($url, strpos($url, 'wiki/') +5);
 $tableName = str_replace("(", "_", $tableName);
 $tableName = str_replace(")", "_", $tableName);
 $tableName = str_replace(",", "_", $tableName);

2. Checks if the table exists already in DB: if the table is not empty, prints out the URLs contained in the table. If table doesn't exist, creates it and records the URLs into the table.

3. Then downloads PDFs.