[Phpwiki-talk] new admin/ directory

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

OK, here's my first pass at an administrative module for PhpWiki.

I made a new subdirectory, admin/, which has three files in it. One is
index.php3, which will work much like the main index.php3: it opens the
database and goes through an if/elseif/elseif/else block to decide which
file to load.

The files it will choose from will be:

* serialize all pages
* dump all pages as HTML
* load a set of serialized pages
* lock/unlock pages
* rebuild the DB files (for DBM-based Wikis)
* load a set of admin forms (default if none of the above apply)

I wrote a page which did all the work of dumping the whole database out as
serialized hashes, and then accidentally deleted it and lost about 1hr's
work... being not entirely discouraged, I wrote these three files.

Besides index.php3 is wiki_adminforms.php (not .php3) which is an HTML
file mostly. (For now.) I wanted to write out everything I wanted to do
before starting to code, and anyone who wants to contribute can start
writing files based on the descriptions.

Third is a Perl script that reduces the size of a DBM file. I will write
all of it in PHP later but wanted to prove I was right about how DBM files
lose memory first, and I was... for the savvy sysadmin a Perl script will
be faster or more flexible a solution (and can be easily cron'd.)

The Perl script shrank the DBM file on wcsb.org from 2,464,640 bytes to 
117,574 (there are 91 pages in it).

sw


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