Re: [Phpwiki-talk] FootNotes, Tables, The end of PHP3, I'm still alive, etc...

[J C L. <cl...@ka...>]

On Wed, 07 Feb 2001 11:19:29 -0800 
Jeff Dairiki <da...@da...> wrote:

> If there's a push for keeping the mark-up simple, why footnotes?
> Carrying the references around as page meta-data has been a
> pain-in-the-database-code.  Why not just get rid of it all?

Wikis are cominginto increasing use as engineering and coroporate
documentation systems (usually with various sorts of access and
versioning control).  Footnotes are almost a requirement for
engineering Wikis -- especially for technical review or analysis
documents.

> User ID's / Logins:

>   I think they're a good idea.  (Useful for some sites, at least.)

SourceForge has a fairly pleasant bit of PHP code to handle user
registrations with email confirmations etc.  I've been extending it
here to support PHPLib-style templates (I'm actually using a
superset of PHPLib's template class) and its pretty clean code.
	
>   On a related note, there's a bug:

>   Currently 'index.php?zip=all' will get you to the wiki page
> named 'zip=all'.  This is probably a bad idea ('zip=all' is an
> allowable page name, but it should have to be url-encoded.)  I'll
> fix this unless you object.

Best would be to remove all ? and & URL variables to make it easier
for search engines to index public Wikis.

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