Re: [Phpwiki-talk] cvs access to dfrankow

[Reini U. <ru...@x-...>]

Dan Frankowski schrieb:
> Reini Urban wrote:
>> Dan,
>> I just gave you CVS access to sf.net.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
>> I added now the preliminary lib/wikilens,
>> and changed plugin/RateIt.php (which is responsible for the action, 
>> not lib/rate.php) and the theme.
> 
> Okay.
> 
>> Please fix that to your needs and think of the general wide audience.
> 
> We always would like to do that, if we can.
>> (not only peardb, ...)
> 
> Hmm. That is tougher. We probably will not broaden beyond PearDB for a 
> long time. We just don't have the people to do it and support it. 

dbi->query is a generic query that works for pear and adodb, and returns 
the backend specific iterator, which name is in ->iter_class.

> Heck, I'm swamped just keeping up with your changes (!), in addition to the 
> other things I do.
> 
>> Some iterator is currently broken. Probably more.

The iterator per se is not broken, but the query returns no result 
suitable to the iterator.

>> But please don't touch any other core files, send me the needed 
>> patches instead please.
> 
> 
> I definitely only want to change files that you are okay with. I won't 
> change core files.
> 
> What about adding unit tests?

Sure. I forgot these.
But note that I fixed and improved the test framework a bit. It works 
now for cli and web (and my debugger).

>> I also added two more star icon sets with another prefix, but is isn't 
>> completed yet. (small and big red stars)
>>
>> Maybe the external rating engines will be removed, but for now I let 
>> the interface in. You know that I was playing with a mysql version of 
>> suggest and the java server from your group will also be available 
>> soon. (hopefully)
> 
> MultiLens, the recommendation engine that is used in MovieLens, is now 
> open source, registered at sourceforge.

Yeah, just saw it. Great.

> We will probably be using our built-in PHP recs for awhile, since it is 
> more of a "small-world" recommender.
-- 
Reini Urban
http://phpwiki.sf.net/