Re: [Phpwiki-talk] wikinames, layout, db, and more

[Nicholas R. <nic...@sy...>]

What are you using on
> NT, by the way?)

MySQL 3.22.34, PHP4 (I think, I am having some installations weirdness with
PHP)


> This will be the easy part... creating the user auth system and
> integrating it will be the hard part. Security always makes things more
> difficult.

could we source script from somewhere?
http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Programming/Languages/PHP/


> In particular, we have to be careful of trying to reinvent HTML. Before
> long people will be asking for tables and frames and Javascript, and
> that's when I go into retirement :-)
>

lets not recreate HTML, it would be good to have shortcuts to web objects
though (WOM:)
http://www.objs.com/OSA/wom.htm

also have you seen the Superdocs concept at Everything2.com?
http://everything2.com/index.pl?node=XP


>
> My desire is to push this architecture in new and interesting ways, and
> eventually when the 1.2 series matures, write a new one from scratch,
> because it will probably reach a point where we will have to anyway.
>

ok, sounds good, I'll help, its a bit of a learning curve for me


> > see http://synarchy.net/usyd/ped/task0.html
> Ah, to be in college again :-)

partime, nights, I am in a masters stream (no undergrad degree though) I
work in the days too, http://www.worldmedicus.com

>
> I'm also interested in a Slashdot front end to PhpWiki, and right now my
> thinking is that it will be a seperate file, a.k.a. wiki_weblog.php3
> (which can optionally be made index.php3).

hmmm, thats very interesting, right now I have 2 projects (contract and uni)
to finish this week, after that I'll be diving manically into PHPdom

>
> After reading through this and looking at your drawings I understand why
> you want a more component-based approach... your drawings remind me an
> awful lot of Ted Neson's :-)

hopefully I am a bit more grounded, not so utopian, I'll take that as a
compliment

btw have you seen http://synarchy.net/CRV