Re: [Phpwiki-talk] phpWiki and postnuke at Daimonin

[Lawrence A. <la...@us...>]

On 4 Apr 2005, at 15:02, Daniel Sutcliffe wrote:

>
> Daimonin MMORPG wrote:
>> Hm, i thought the postnuke phpwiki port is known?
>>
>> http://stuff.kling.nu/
>
> This site just describes some patches to the postnuke port of phpwiki
> at:
>   http://sourceforge.net/projects/pn-modules/
> And this seems to be a patched version of phpwiki 1.3.x - where x is
> something <4 .  I've not identified what actual version it is yet,
> the text in the version would seem to suggest it is x = 0 or 1 but I
> suspect it is later.  Has anyone worked out what actual version this
> is...
>


OK - you've dragged me out of retirement!  Hello everyone.

Any "old timers" on this list may remember that I wrote the 
postnuke/phpwiki module several years ago.  I really cannot remember a 
huge amount about it, I'm afraid.  It was based on phpWiki 1.3.2 
updated to about the end of December 2001 from cvs, and written to work 
(just about) with postnuke 0.7

I gave up supporting it partly because people seemed to expect that 
they were entitled to make huge demands on my time (grump grump), but 
mostly because I didn't much like the direction in which postnuke was 
headed.  Also, with some exceptions, there wasn't at the time much 
enthusiasm in the PN project team for wikis in general.  I expect that 
has changed now.


> I've recently updated PostNuke to 0.750a and although this port
> mostly seems to work fine, it has broken one thing: the author used
> to get set up to be the PN username if the user was logged in, now
> it is always the IP address.  I'm trying to track this down but if
> anyone has already worked this out then please save me some time and
> drop me a hint.
>

No idea, sorry.



> I also found this more recent post of phpwiki for postnuke:
>   http://noc.postnuke.com/projects/pnphpwiki/
> based on phpwiki 1.3.8.  I haven't tried it but am interested to hear
> any reports of success or otherwise with its use.

I was in contact with Jason Potkanski, who was responsible for this 
module (also based on mine), about a year ago.  He too has given up on 
postnuke, and had moved over (I think) to xoops.


>
> It seems that there's quite a few of us interested in using phpwiki
> within postnuke, and yet all the ports seem pretty abandoned...  it
> is good to hear the Reini has done work on making it "native" - I'm
> sure with the obvious interest we can volunteer some time to keep
> this updated with a the current phpwiki once 1.3.11 is stable and
> released.  I know I'm willing to give it some time - I ought to at
> least drop my findings into the phpwiki Wiki...


I am sure that there is scope for making phpwiki amenable to being 
incorporated into other software.  One thing that I recall thinking 
would help a great deal is if the wiki transform engine was more 
free-standing so that text could be passed in to a function, wikified, 
and returned to the calling application without invoking the whole 
phpwiki machinery.  This was not to easy last time I looked, which 
admittedly was some time ago.

Lawrence