Re: [Phpwiki-talk] rollout of 1.1.6

[Steve W. <sw...@wc...>]

On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, Arno Hollosi wrote:

>  > * in a DBM-based Wiki, call dump.php3.
> 
> can be in a mysql or pgsql wiki as well - I don't see any problems

Yes, this was just an example. It would port any database to any database.

I think in the long run it would be used the most for DBM -> RDBMS though
(as people upgrade their installations);  DBM files are a great way to
start off, and for small Wikis they are sufficient, but as traffic rises
you really want the stability and efficiency of a SQL database. 

> How about having the page source in files like /pgsrc and one additional file
> that contains serialized data structures (in the 1.1.6 format)?

That would be even simpler... I'll only have to write one dump.php3 file
:-)

> On a side note: the file names have to be escaped in some way.
> The new naming scheme allows arbitrary characters and some
> filesystems don't allow that. Know of any good escaping scheme,
> short of naming the files 1,2,3,4,5,6, ....

Would rawurlencode() work?

> (I thought of something like using a special character, say ','
> and escape any odd characters with their decimal value, e.g.
> the name "you \\don't// hear, do you?" would be saved as
> "you ,92,,92,don,39,t,47,,47, hear,44, do you,63,"
> I guess you can see why this might not be a good solution)

There's probably no clean solution to this. Anyways people should
StickWithTheNamingConvention :-)

sw

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