Re: [Phpwiki-talk] tab-width and new database API

[Jeff D. <da...@da...>]

Wups... I thought I sent this to phpwiki-talk, but apparently I sent it
only to Pablo...  Here it is:
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On Sep 5, 2001, "Pablo Roca" said:
> Hum curious, why is needed a new template engine?

Well, in the process of munging my new database API into the rest of
the code PhpWiki I had to modify the browse.html and editpage.html
templates.  It bothered my again (it has always bothered me)
that template syntax was ugly and unnecessarily inflexible.

So I rewrote the template engine.  I wrote a real parser to deal with
the if blocks, with the idea of eventually adding some kind of loop
structure.  Added a way to automatically LinkExistingWikiWord,
so that "<a class="wikilink" href="###BROWSE###FindPage"><span 
class="wikiword">FindPage</span></a>" could be written more legibly.

Then, I discovered that PHP4 has this set of ob_* commands which allow
one to capture the "standard output" into a variable.  This is great,
I think, as it allows for templates to be regular php code.
So I tossed my new template engine and replaced it with a new one
which essentially just include()s the template, capturing it's output
to a variable using the ob_* stuff.  (All this refactoring explains
why the current version is, at this point, pretty ugly itself.
It's a mish-mash of the original GeneratePage code, code from my first
template engine, and the current one.  As I said, it still needs
refactored.)

> Let us know when this is available for seeing.

I'll do it now, sorry.  When it's up it'll be at
 http://phpwiki.sourceforge.net/jeffs-hacks/wiki/

> > A tar-ball can be found in:
> >   ftp://www.dairiki.org/phpwiki/
> 
> I can' connect to this server I get an error. ... :(

Yes, my virtual host seems to be unreachable.  Crap.

Try: http://phpwiki.sf.net/jeffs-hacks/files/

Cheers,
Jeff