Re: [Phpwiki-talk] New User General Questions

[Oliver B. <li...@gm...>]

rei...@gm... wrote:

> > > sf.net is not being maintained actively.
> > so where is a meaningful PhpWiki website, documentation, community?
> 
> There's no website unfortunately.
> Docs are in http://phpwiki.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/phpwiki/trunk/doc/
> at http://phpwiki.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/phpwiki/trunk/pgsrc/

not appropriate IMNSHO.

> > This list has transported 60 Messages in the past 12 months - one
> > message every six days... I counted some four developers and ten
> > "other" users.
> 
> There are two developers only, but many users.

I still see no active "community".

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> > > phpwiki has much more features than those two.
> > Maybe I don't know enough about the PhpWiki features, because I don't
> > know where to look them up. Could you name some important features of
> > PhpWiki not found in PmWiki?
> 
> * All database backends, all php versions, all major operating systems, not  
> just LAMP with php5.

PmWiki doesn't require LAMP or even PHP5.

> * Many plugins, in my opinion more, better and easier than mediawiki  
> plugins. mediawiki just has easier syntax plugins.

For example? Where are these plugins documented?

> * DynamicIncludePages (IncludePage via Ajax to create tree-like structures  
> loaded on demand)

Interesting - where can I read more about this?

> * Many login and auth methods, just facebook connect and email verification  
> not yet.

Ack.

> * Moderated pages

?

> * Semantic relations and queries

What's this? Where can I read more?

> In contrary to pmwiki's and dokuwiki's design principle: Avoid gratuitous  
> features (or "creeping featurism")

Ack, the PmWiki core (240kBytes) has no featurism. There are many 
extensions, but you can do many things with core functionality.

> we extend it is much as possible with creeping featurism.

So you consider creeping featurism in the core good?

> I also prefer the template inheritance, so that it can easily be extended  

Don't know about "template inheritance" - where can I read more?

Oliver
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Oliver Betz, Muenchen