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

[Daniel S. <da...@Op...>]

Lawrence Akka wrote:
> 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

Thanks - I'm sure this background info will help, even though it is
probably in this lists archives.  I love the SF search engine :-X

> 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 have a love/hate relationship with PostNuke - I'm not sure what
their project team thinks as I find their resources an absolute
nightmare to navigate...

I can also relate to users expecting huge amounts of time ;-)

> > 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.

Found it.  The PN getusrinfo() call only does anything useful after
"Enable support for legacy modules" is checked in the PN settings.
With this enabled I'm back to the functionality I had before the
upgrade.  I'm not sure what this call should be replaced with and
after some searching can't find any docs on updating legacy modules
up to the current PN API... if anyone else finds anything then please
post.

> > 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.

As your module is working fine for me now - it is probably best to
concentrate any future efforts on any work that Reini may have
already done using the current CVS phpwiki codebase.  That is unless
anyone has positive things to say about Jason's module.

> 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.

I'm not sure about specifics but I do know that I have a couple of
uses in mind for phpwiki where I'd like to see it working hand in
hand with other PHP apps (Gallery and phpBB).  I don't think that
any Web application can afford to view itself as working in a vacuum
and being very flexible as to how you interoperate only broadens your
audience and appeal.  Not that OpenSTA is any example of these ideals
:rolleyes:

Cheers
/dan
-- 
Daniel Sutcliffe <Da...@Op...>
  OpenSTA part-time caretaker - http://OpenSTA.org/