Re: [Phpwiki-talk] Re: FindPage on Win32

[Arno H. <aho...@in...>]

Hi,

answers/thoughts on Nicholas' recent emails:

 > > For some reason the FindPage ie
 > > http://phpwiki.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php3?FindPage
 > > does not present the text-boxes

Search boxes are broken in 1.1.4. A fix is in the CVS.

 > > also the FindPage link at the bottom of the pages doesnt work correctly

Same as above - fix is already in CVS.
[ Newnames must have been a very quick&dirty hack, Steve ;o) ]


> this seems to be a great solution, it would be nice if wiki_config.php3 and
> say wiki_template.php3 where the only pages one needed to alter to customise
> ones wiki.

That is the general idea. Maybe it gets a little bit more complicated
than that. E.g. I'm sure someone would like to customize the
appearance of the editpage as well - I don't mean the general layout
but changes "within" the page like e.g. changing the size of the text field.


> will we have to re-enter our pages manually? could we make a sript that
> migrates our data into the new schema?

I'm sure we will come up with an export script. That way the whole
wiki can be exported into files just like those in "/pgsrc" and
inserted into a new empty wiki without problems. Of course, new pagenames
have this pesky problem of allowing chars which shouldn't appear in filenames.


> I am looking at getting PhpWiki to work with the following;
> PhpHoo2, PHPSlash, TWIG, Listman, Webmin

This touches upon the extension of wiki. Some of these features are
needed within wiki too, although in a watered-down version. E.g. a
better category concept (phphoo) or better focus on current
topics (phpslash), notification of users (listman), ...

What we really want is of course that phpwiki develops into this massive
portal system and that we never need to care about the Web again :o)

Good ideas can be drawn from a bunch of sources like Everything2 or ACS.

My main concern is navigation within wiki. My private wiki (which is
used to discuss a forthcoming wiki for Go) holds about 100 pages but
I've already lost track of what's in it and where. To that end, my
priorities are categories, paths, plus some magic based on back-links.
Also, I intend to add a fulltext search engine to my wiki.
UDMSearch (http://mysearch.udm.net/) looks promising - it is able to
index mySQL columns, just what is needed for phpwiki (phpwiki itself
will remain ignorant/independent of the search engine)


/Arno