[Phpwiki-talk] wikilens integration

[Reini U. <ru...@x-...>]

Dan Frankowski schrieb:
> Reini Urban wrote:
>> PS:
>> I'm considering this for DanFr as well, but at first I have to 
>> decouple the wikilens specific stuff more from our core.
>> This will affect lib/wikilens, lib/plugin/RateIt, and themes/wikilens.

Dan, I added now your lib/PageList.php to CVS,
and will soon cvs add lib/wikilens, where you should put your extensions.

I fixed a couple of things, please have a look.

I'm also attaching my versions of your wikilens libs,
but these are not tested yet.

> We'd also like very much to be decoupled, it's just not been highest on 
> our list. Hearing your thoughts would be appreciated.
> 
> We will probably not keep everything in lib/plugin/RateIt.php, because 
> we will want separate files for organizing code. (Imagine stuffing all 
> of lib into one file!). However, we'd be happy to keep our stuff in a 
> separate place, perhaps all in lib/wikilens, or lib/plugin/wikilens. Let 
> us know any opinions.
> 
> Also, eventually we will pull our stuff out of WikiDB into separate 
> files. I agree with you that a RatingsDB can be completely separate from 
> the page DB (although maybe defaulted the same).

I seperated a RatingsUser file.

> Also, a question about themes/wikilens. Mike is currently working on 
> making it work for us and removing duplicate code from other places. 
> However, does that mean that our users (who will want ratings widgets 
> for example) can't choose other themes? That seems too bad. Maybe it 
> would be cool to have a hook into a 'default'-theme-like place that 
> could show up in lots of different themes. This is not a high priority, 
> tho.

They can use other themes, but they have to customize them.
As the whole wikilens theme is just a customization of the default 
theme. Just add some hooks.

More on this later.

> Much higher priority is getting the user login, account creation, and 
> password management really smooth.
> 
> Also, for us, we are interested in versioned "structured data" (fields 
> like author and title for a book, location and cost for a restaurant, 
> etc.). I will send out a proposal for that soon. For those who are 
> worried I am trying to turn Phpwiki into some generic groupware, I say: 
> no, versioned (wiki-able!) structured data could be generically useful 
> in MANY different domains, plenty of which have nothing to do with 
> WikiLens, and it is still very wiki-flavored.
> 
>> And I don't have that much time yet to integrate their huge changes 
>> right now. Still 2 remaining fatals to catch.
> 
> I think it's fine that you postpone integration for more important, core 
> things. Making the user stuff really smooth, easy, and reliable would be 
> great.
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Reini Urban
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