Thread: RE: [Phpwebsite-developers] phpWebSite Core Updates

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+1 from me.  I've been eagerly waiting this update.

Greg

-----Original Message-----
From: Steven Levin [mailto:st...@tu...] 
Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 9:59 AM
To: php...@li...
Subject: [Phpwebsite-developers] phpWebSite Core Updates

Hello everyone,

  This list has been very inactive ever since the IRC chat room came
about, but I hope to pick things back up again with this discussion I
would like to start.  I believe this will be a better forum than chat
since not all the module developers hang out there.  As some may have
heard, I recently hacked away at phpwebsite and dropped the memory
requirements below the 8m php default and cut execution times in half. 
Now in order for these changes to go into place modules will have to
update some of their calls to core functions.  The reason for this is
because one of the changes made was to split up the long and unnecessary
inheritance chain that all the core classes were a part of.  Approval
from a majority of the third party developers is crucial in my decision
to commit these changes to CVS.   So please let me know how you feel
about updating your modules.  Below are examples of some of the updates
that need to be made.

Before:
The core inherited from the PHPWS_Text class so you where able to call
the function parseInput() like this:
$GLOBALS['core']->parseInput($text_to_parse);

Now:
The class PHPWS_Text is split off from the core, so you have to do a
require_once(PHPWS_SOURCE_DIR.'core/Text.php');  
at the top of the class file you use the function in and then call it
like this:
PHPWS_Text::parseInput($text_to_parse);

Before:
When you wanted to show some content in a block on the left or right
side of the site you would have just put the code in your modules index
file.

Now:
Extra content that needs to show up in phpwebsite when your module is
NOT running (ie.  announcements and past announcements on the home page)
now needs to be placed in a file called inc/runtime.php in your module.

Ok now the decision needs to be made.  If a majority of the developers
vote yes then the changes will go into place.  I have a nice sed script
that will do a most of the replacements of old calls for you.  The list
of replacements only do the common ones found throughout phpwebsite so
you may have some left behind that you will have to fix by hand.   Now I
am willing to provide assistance upgrading modules in my free time so
don't feel like you will have to figure out all the updates on your own
cause I am sure there will be some special cases.  Alright all you
developers out there fire away.

-- 
Steven Levin
Computer Systems Admin I
Electronic Student Services
Appalachian State University
Phone: 828.262.6740
http://phpwebsite.appstate.edu

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