Re: [Phpwiki-talk] New User General Questions

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

rei...@gm... wrote:

[...PmWiki and DokuWiki als alternative...]

note that I did intentionally not mention MediaWiki. It's made for 
Wikipedia and not for general use.

> > > phpwiki has much more features than those two.

I don't think so.

> > 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.

Ack (as I wrote).

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

I don't know MediaWiki, but many PhpWiki plugins are simply not 
needed in PmWiki. I see not many plugins providing functionality not 
present in PmWiki. And the documentation of the PhpWiki plugins is 
definitely worse, so I doubt "easier".

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

Can't find useful documentation about this even in SVN.

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

Ack.

> * Moderated pages

The help page says no more than "short description" (as on many other 
help pages). I included <?plugin ModeratedPage ?> in a page and 
didn't notice a difference. So I can't check how it works.

BTW: PmWiki also knows "draft" edits and user permissions to 
"publish".

> * Semantic relations and queries

Reading Help/SemanticRelations, I don't fully understand the 
difference between relation::pagename and attribute:=value. PmWiki 
also knows page text variables and has extensive capabilities to use 
them, e.g. in page lists or conditionals. A very powerful feature.

[...]

> I also prefer the template inheritance, so that it can easily be extended  
> whilst not breaking
> HTML conformity, in contrary to mediawiki.

You might want to have a look at the PmWiki templates.

Oliver
-- 
Oliver Betz, Muenchen