Re: [Phpwiki-talk] storing diffs in the archive

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

On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Jeff Dairiki wrote:

> Once (if) the code is working, I see reason to let paranoia be the motivation
> for saving whole pages.  I think some criteria like:
> 
>   if ( ( [number of lines in diff] < [number of lines in page] / FACTOR )
>                                          || ( version % INTERVAL != 0 ) )
>       [Save diff]
>   else
>       [Save whole page]
> 
> would work fine.

Simple solution. Hard to read though ;-)
 
> >Sure, check it into your hacks branch... I checked it out a couple of days
> >ago but was unable to make it work. I like the new switch:case in
> >index.php3.
> 
> Why wouldn't it work?  Any ideas?

Yes: Syntax error on line 286 of wiki_renderlib.php3. I tried to figure
out why it thought so but in the 5 minutes I spent it just didn't want to
instantiate any objects for some reason. (Line 286 has a call to new for
some class and the method has a comment in the param list).

> I could take them or leave them personally.  I added it is an example
> extension module.  The idea is that table support (or whatever) can be
> added by including a extension module in wiki_config.  (Same thing for
> inline HTML.)  Inline images could be done the same way.

I see. Sounds neat!
 
> Speaking of which, another way to handle the inline image idea
> is to allow <IMG> tags within the page.  (They would have to be parsed
> enough to make sure the URL's in them were sane.)

Hrmm. In the direction you are going, would it be possible to let the Wiki
admin:

* choose classic Wiki markup
* choose extended Wiki markup
* choose basic HTML
* or create their own markup

as the markup language, when the Wiki is first set up? I wouldn't want to
allow them to choose all of them necessarily, if it means conflicts and
parsing headaches.

> Yes this would require both account and session information to be stored in
> the database, but would be straightforward enough.   Then one would have the
> hooks for other fancy features like "mail me a note whenever this page 
> changes".

People have asked for that, and I think they will be less than happy if
the Wiki is really active and they get flooded... for low activity Wikis I
think that's fine, and I'd email the whole page plus the diff and a link
to edit the page, drawing them back into the Wiki.
 
> And when and if you (all) give the word I'm happy to be the one to merge my
> hacks back into the main branch.  (Either all of them or some of them.)

I'll buy you a beer someday :-)

sw

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