Re: [Phpwiki-talk] Re: 1.4 release

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On Tue, 29 Jan 2002 17:35:26 -0500, Carsten Klapp
<car...@ma...> wrote:
=> The latest 1.3 uses a regular web page with an input form for logins 
=> instead of the old http authentication method. As before, only the admin 
=> has a password. Does this address the authentication problem with the cgi 
=> version of php you had?

	Sorry, haven't really looked too terribly closely at the
details of 1.3 as I was waiting with hope for the next release
and 1.3 has so far always been referred to as alpha code.

	My current phpWiki uses straight standard Apache
.htaccess control for http server access to the entire site
(directory level) and also separately for more limited access to
the admin.php file itself.  BTW, I was looking to tack on a front
end for user verification and really liked the way it looked as
running inside PostNuke (www.postnuke.org).

	For several reasons (including use on shared servers),
I'm restricted to PHP as CGI as a standard but I run it "wrapped"
under my user to closely control its use by Apache.

=> What kind of hacks do you have in your 1.2, anything worth sharing? Or any 
=> new features we might consider adding in at some point?

	Thanks for asking.  Most of what I've done is
user-specific style, layout and formatting, with a few minor hack
bits thrown in for navigation as well. Nothing really that ports,
I'm afraid. Look and feel stuff.

	Biggest formatting change is to move almost all the links
etc to the left side of each page (table) which makes the wiki
easier to navigate IMO, especially for new visitors. Whitespace
and page blocking is important IMO, the standard Wiki is too
text-dense on the page. Sorry I don't have a publicly visible
example of my formatting changes at the moment.

	One complaint I encountered with my user base was that
the navigation (outside of the wiki text itself) was not up to
their expectations and not standardized.  The other "complaint"
was that it was just too egalitarian: "whaddayamean I can just
type in changes to this page right here and now?"

	Cheers,

	- Don