[Phpwiki-talk] Business Week Magazine, and a plea for a stable release

[Micki K. <mic...@co...>]

Reini, Carsten, Steve, Jeff -

Check out these articles on Business Week magazine. Corporate use of 
wiki's for documentation should increase dramatically in the coming 
months and years - we need to get phpwiki strong and stable (and NOT 
too bloated), to attract attention and positive mention in this arena!

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_23/b3886138.htm
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_23/b3886141.htm

Here in our wiki environment, we're still stuck on my modified 1.3.4 
for my 100-person team... we need a new version, but I too am having 
little success in trying to get a stable recent release up - I 
downloaded 1.3.10 and it has major problems with the include_paths.

This time, I get a fatal error:

  Fatal error: main(): Failed opening required 'DB.php' 
(include_path='.:/Library/WebServer/Documents/phpwiki') in 
  /Library/WebServer/Documents/phpwiki/lib/WikiDB/backend/PearDB.php on line 7

I tried all the options, like

INCLUDE_PATH = ".:/Library/WebServer/Documents/phpwiki" and
SCRIPT_NAME = /Library/WebServer/Documents/phpwiki/index.php
DATA_PATH = /phpwiki
PHPWIKI_DIR = /Library/WebServer/Documents/phpwiki

etc.

I DON'T wanna have to change all the include statements to 
absolutes... what's going on here? In the past, i could count on it 
'finding itself', etc., without such deep tweaks - but now, it's 
fatal error city.

I know many fixes are coming, but PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE, let's 
concentrate next on bulletproofing, avoiding feature creep and easy 
deployment! Phpwiki is the best wiki out there, can be GREAT for 
corporate use with a few mods like pdfs, includes and toc, but the 
expectations for easy install are high indeed! Otherwise, open source 
looks fragile to finicky corporate types... I'll continue to hone my 
skills on the code base, but it's very difficult to familiarize 
yourself with the code when ou cannot get the wiki to work at all...

Thanks,
Micki
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Micki
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