Re: [Phpwiki-talk] Patch: internationalisation with php3 fallback [Was: ...]

[Jan N. <ja...@gn...>]

On Sunday, 1 October 2000, Steve Wainstead writes:

> The patch files were over 40K, which made the listserv hold them for
> approval. I upped the msg size limit to 100K.

Ok, didn't know/check it was so big already.

> I'm siding with Arno on the ease of installation issue, which has been a
> major concern of mine since version 0.01 back in December. It should be as
> easy as tar -xzvf <phpwiki tarball> and it runs on any GNU/Linux or BSD
> system.

Sure, if you think that's needed.  Arno had a simple (=good) idea that
I stole so that my last patch will allow this, although only php4 user
get the ``better'' implementation.  The legacy php3 support can later
be dropped at any time.

> When we say "users" of PhpWiki we usually mean "the people who install and
> maintain the Wiki," i.e. the sysadmins and programmers. It's my belief
> that the easier it is to use (install) the more readily accepted it is;

Ok.  Wouldn't it help if we made wiki_config.php3 a lot smaller,
and make type of database selectable by a single variable, something
like:

    <?php3

       $DataBase = "dbm";  #  "mysql", "pgsql", "msql"

       $DatabaseDir = "/tmp";   # only used by DBM
       $DatabaseName = "wiki";  # only used by 
       $DatabaseUser = "wiki";
       $DatabasePass = "";
       $LANG = "C";


       // you probably don't need to change these
       $DatabaseServer = "localhost";
       $DatabasePort = "5432";  # only used by pgsql
       ...

     ?>

This gets included  by index.php3, which also includes the relevant
db config.

Also, why don't we make RedHat and debian packages.  That should make
install both easy, and OK for no-messing-with-my-package-system people.

    apt-get install phpwiki

is a lot simpler than surfing the internet for a wiki's most recent
tarball, handconfigure it, etc.

Greetings,
Jan.

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