[Phpwiki-talk] RE: Trouble with phpwiki

[Arno H. <aho...@in...>]

David,

> I've installed Apache 1.3.14, Php 4.04 and phpwiki 1.19 on Windows NT

1.19 has some nasty bugs. Try the nightly tarball instead.

> The biggest problem imho is that there is no seed database, zip file or
> flat (serialized) file to get one started.

??? If no FrontPage exists, files from pgsrc/ are *automatically* inserte=
d=20
into whatwever database you have chosen (dbm, mysql, flatfile, ...)
If this didn't work for you, I'd appreciate if you could give as a more=20
detailed bug report.

> run your code before delivery with warnings enabled.

I do. Not too long ago, I cleaned up a whole bunch of those warnings.
Maybe, I didn't check with a fresh install.

> There are some suspicious ones which I think makes it fail silently
> when warnings are off.

Example?

> When loading the pages into mysql using the "edit this page" page's Sav=
e
> button, mysql reported some syntax errors (loudly <g>) yet, when I went
> back and reloaded the base page and clicked on the link pointing to the
> page i'd just entered, it was there! This behavior stopped after about
> the 4th page loading.

I guess this has to do with some SQL queries turning up an empty result a=
t=20
the beginning. Actually, this can only happen if you start with *no* page=
s=20
in your db, whereas if the setup process works you have at least a dozen=20
pages from pgsrc/ in your database.


> It would be really nice, given the availability of the page sources, if
> there was some sort of initial "load database/zip/flatfile" utility.

Apart from the automatic load process (if no FrontPage exists), there's a=
=20
"load serialized pages" on the admin page. Or am I misunderstanding=20
something here?

> P.S. I tried locking a page (formatting rules), but phpwiki didn't seem
> to honor that

Could you describe exactly what you are doing and what the results are?
Locking works for me.


> I don't see any bits in the wiki schema for page access control
> do you do it some other way?

Currently we distinguish only between two users: admin and everyone else.
Admin may edit locked pages, mortals may not (stored in 'flags',=20
FLAG_PAGE_LOCKED is set). Reading is allowed for everyone. A more=20
sophisticated user managament is currently not high priority.

/Arno