Re: [Phpwebsite-developers] phpWebSite Community wiki

[Greg M. <drk...@co...>]

Wendall Cada wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> You can find the wiki on http://phpwebsite-comm.sourceforge.net/wiki

> the wiki convention of FirstnameLastname. Ask someone already on the

Gentlemen, Would one of you please add me to the wiki editing group.  I 
have registered as GregMorgan.

A year ago I started on revising the documentation.  Life happened.  I 
am back trying to answer questions in the forums.. LOL should I say the 
official forums.  Now having been off for a year I see that most of the 
questions are the same.  Actually I can go to my monitory email folder 
and pull out the answers from a year ago and they still work.  I believe 
I have enough junk to create an enhanced install list, etc.  I'd like to 
take all the existing txt files in the docs directory and kludge them 
together into a nice document--I am so lazy to start with other people's 
work ;) but it's the open source way.  The wiki looks like the perfect 
place to do this because other people can pipe up and biff me in the 
head if I get it wrong.  More importantly, it solves some of the 
fragmentation issues the community has over documentation and other 
issues.  We're all gungho to do something but it is difficult to follow 
through.  It seems hard to build on other people's work.

With that in mind how would you like to start this off in the wiki?  My 
thoughts are to take the existing doc at 
http://phpwebsite.appstate.edu/manual/html/; add an install section; 
toss in the developer's txt files; revise or should I say wiki wiki and 
all the user's problems will go away---if they read it.

What kind of junk to I have to bring to the table?  So I answer 
questions like this one 
https://sourceforge.net/forum/message.php?msg_id=2927443
I pull this out of my umm archive ( and you thought I was going to say 
something else ;-) ) 
https://sourceforge.net/forum/message.php?msg_id=2928134
I add this
https://sourceforge.net/forum/message.php?msg_id=2929150
Seems like a common problem.  So this can be added to a section of the 
INSTALL.txt to build on it.

Then you have this question 
https://sourceforge.net/forum/message.php?msg_id=2927129
I am answering it here 
https://sourceforge.net/forum/message.php?msg_id=2929633 with the idea 
of revising it for the manual.

What have I done before life happened a year ago 
http://kissalice.sourceforge.net/phpmanual/output/c2120.html.  As I 
recall the CVS section was fairly polished.  I started on a theme 
section http://kissalice.sourceforge.net/phpmanual/output/c2466.html. 
That idea sucked because not everyone is a chess player.  However, I 
have been thinking another way to attach the problem.  Mike wants to 
kick me in the butt because he has leaf up on phpwebsite and I still 
don't have the module written.  However, I was going to show the design 
process here 
http://kissalice.sourceforge.net/phpmanual/output/c2260.html.  I also 
wanted to take what was in the phpwebsite CVS for 1.0 and revisit as 
another way to create modules.  I think Stardog was working on something.

So if you give me access, I will write.  I will perhaps answer user 
forum questions first in the wiki and then point them to it there. 
Hence others can refine it.

Thanks,
Greg