Re: [phpesp-dev] Pear support

[Matthew G. <gr...@mu...>]

See below...
On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 07:53:18AM +0000, Stefan Champailler wrote:
> So...
> 
> It seems like Pear is having some rave reviews down here. Here's what I'll do 
> : as soon as I got a dev environment with Oracle/ODBC running, I'll test the 
> Pear connectivity. If it works, I'll move my phpEsp to PEAR. But, 
> unfortunatley, I have also several additional features that I have to add to 
> the code that are not necessarily good for everyone. I'll try to maintain my 
> code as re-importable in the main branch as possible, but there will be some 
> work.
> 
> Features I plan to add :
> 
> - More graphic generation
What do you mean by graphic generation?

> - A survey translation mechanism (I'll try to HACK it in the current
> code, so don't expect something too clean)

Can you do this drawing from what is currently implemented in the
management interfaces multilingual code?

> - I simplified the "question" tab : removed Fieldname, length, precision in 
> favor of defaults (so yes, I killed some flexibility, but my users are 
> ranging from "I don't understand computers" to "I do understand
> them")

Can this be optional?  A phpESP.ini config variable?  Lots of people
need the flexibility.

> - Rewritten the core logi in question.inc, it was way too complicated,
> uncommented and buggy, I expect my version to be done today. However, it'll 
> need a lot of QA attention.
> - I'm also redefining the notion of group (which is pretty fuzzy
> anyway)

How so?

> - I'm writing a user manual, all in Docbook.?

A manual would be awesome.  Docbook or XHTML would be my vote.

> 
> 
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