I'd like to come up with a slick way to interface phpWiki and phpWebsite together. With phpwebsite's new plugin feature, I hope to do this with minimal changes to phpWiki. Hopefully it will just end up being slight modifications to the templates dir.
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After playing with phpWebsite for a bit, I can see the appeal. You could add Wiki pages to the site as well as new articles.
The one barrier I see is that people won't immediately recognize this. The concept of a WikiWikiWeb is still not well known even in the computer world (though it seems to be spreading very rapidly these days).
I would worry that when we add authentication it might conflict with other PHP projects on the same web site; but auth should be an optional feature so it might not be a problem.
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What concept should we take on embedding this into phpwebsite? Do we have a page-by-page add function? Do we have a heirarchy add function, where its a link leading in to a Wiki heirarchy?
I for one think the latter to be more robust and better in the long run. This could help by separating Wikis into different projects.
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I would prefer to let the phpWebSite people use the PhpWiki code as they saw fit, rather than the other way around. My goal with this project has been to make a featureful, easily hackable Wiki based on PHP. Integration with phpWebSite would be a good thing, but I think the demand right now is too low to justify working on it until things like version control are done.
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It may be moving on to another topic, but is there anyway all these projects can share a pluggable auth interface such that you can use the same one across the board?
I realize this requires the cooperation between non-related projects and people that want to do it TheirOwnWay. But, ..., IMHO, lots of people would like to take other php projects and put them together with others. This conglomeration of projects makes a whole where there were only pieces.
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I haven't looked much at phpWebsite yet, so I'm unaware of the specifics of the plugin API it uses, but (once we have user authentication) it shouldn't be hard to make it so that you can configure PhpWiki to just get the authenticated user name from phpWebSite (bypassing PhpWiki's password checking mechanism altogether.)
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I actually have some great results with only minor modifications to the code! If anyone is interested in embedding this, you need to do a slight hack to a few files.
Please see my "Templates modification proposal". It will enable you to modify content on its way out to the browser. Basically, run your content through 2 templating engines.
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I'd like to come up with a slick way to interface phpWiki and phpWebsite together. With phpwebsite's new plugin feature, I hope to do this with minimal changes to phpWiki. Hopefully it will just end up being slight modifications to the templates dir.
Comments?
After playing with phpWebsite for a bit, I can see the appeal. You could add Wiki pages to the site as well as new articles.
The one barrier I see is that people won't immediately recognize this. The concept of a WikiWikiWeb is still not well known even in the computer world (though it seems to be spreading very rapidly these days).
I would worry that when we add authentication it might conflict with other PHP projects on the same web site; but auth should be an optional feature so it might not be a problem.
What concept should we take on embedding this into phpwebsite? Do we have a page-by-page add function? Do we have a heirarchy add function, where its a link leading in to a Wiki heirarchy?
I for one think the latter to be more robust and better in the long run. This could help by separating Wikis into different projects.
I would prefer to let the phpWebSite people use the PhpWiki code as they saw fit, rather than the other way around. My goal with this project has been to make a featureful, easily hackable Wiki based on PHP. Integration with phpWebSite would be a good thing, but I think the demand right now is too low to justify working on it until things like version control are done.
~swain
It may be moving on to another topic, but is there anyway all these projects can share a pluggable auth interface such that you can use the same one across the board?
I realize this requires the cooperation between non-related projects and people that want to do it TheirOwnWay. But, ..., IMHO, lots of people would like to take other php projects and put them together with others. This conglomeration of projects makes a whole where there were only pieces.
Some random thoughts.
There's always phplib.
I haven't looked much at phpWebsite yet, so I'm unaware of the specifics of the plugin API it uses, but (once we have user authentication) it shouldn't be hard to make it so that you can configure PhpWiki to just get the authenticated user name from phpWebSite (bypassing PhpWiki's password checking mechanism altogether.)
I actually have some great results with only minor modifications to the code! If anyone is interested in embedding this, you need to do a slight hack to a few files.
Please see my "Templates modification proposal". It will enable you to modify content on its way out to the browser. Basically, run your content through 2 templating engines.