Re: [Phpwiki-talk] Multiple instances of Phpwiki ?

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

Matthew Palmer wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 09:14:42AM +1200, Jim Cheetham wrote:
> [__CONFIGURED for multiple Wikis]
>>I'd like to see this too, because I'm currently running three wikis on 
>>the same machine, with the associated duplication of code files. Perhaps 
>>Matthew could implement this, and Reini could accept it into CVS?
> 
> 
> Reini said he didn't like my idea, and preferred his way of doing it.  See
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=8500690.  The problem
> I see with Reini's idea is that it relies on trusting IniConfig not to go
> overwriting existing define()s.  That's fine and dandy now, but without
> giant "Here be Monsters, lad" all over the IniConfig code, someone in the
> future is going to change it to do just that (because constant leakage is
> bad), and suddenly all of your custom Wikis die.
> 
> Also, you're splitting the config into multiple parts again -- one for
> defines, and one for variables.  With the number of variables in PHPWiki
> (and the fact that now, with IniConfig, they're no longer documented as
> being variables in the config file, but only in the depths of IniConfig()
> -- and that's subject to change without notice), you're going to have a hard
> time figuring out which one's which.
> 
> My system adds little in the way of complexity -- both methods require
> .htaccess fiddling and snippets of custom code, as does mine -- but mine
> allows you to use the same config method for custom sites -- an IniConfig
> file -- as the main site.
> 
> But hey, to each their own.  Reini thinks my idea sucks, I think his does,
> and we all clap hands together.  

I never said that your idea sucks.
I like it. I even have some test scripts which use your approach.
I just prefer my simple starter scripts because they are shorter.

And we used my way for some years now in the demo site, before we even 
had a config.ini file.
-- 
Reini Urban
http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/