Re: [Phpwiki-talk] Best source for PhpWiki documentation (e.g., admin)?

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

Oliver Betz schrieb:
> Reini Urban wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
>>> have the ability to manually add users/passwords.
>> that's easily done with most external auth methods.
> 
> define "easily". Which amount of knowledge is needed, and which kind 
> of access to the hosting server?

depends on the method you want to use.

maintaining htpasswd files are easy for one, hard for others.
maintaining SQL pref or user/group table entries files are easy for one, 
hard for others.
maintaining LDAP entries are easy for one, hard for others.
...

> IMO, a web based user administration would be "easy".

true. but this is not really a hot topic.

> That's one of the reasons why I strongly consider to use DokuWiki in 
> the future. Self registering (confirmation by mail), web based user 
> administration, ACLs are all implemented.

registration by email will be added to the next major release. it's just 
not that important as ModeratedPage

> I'm only too busy to test it thoroughly for missing features and 
> weaknesses.

DokuWiki is fine. The best is their user-visible stylesheets/templates. 
Ours are too convoluted.
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