Re: [Phpwiki-talk] New questions/problems

[Carsten K. <car...@us...>]

On Wednesday, November 13, 2002, at 08:45 AM, arthur.chereau wrote:

> Hi,
>
> First, thanks for all your answers.
> After using phpwiki for some days, I've some new questions, remarks 
> and problems:
>
> 1) About the markup
>
> When I chose phpwiki, it was because it used the most intuitive 
> markup. But I
> thought it could be even more intuitive, like *this* for bold, etc. I 
> really
> like the new markup as it's near what I would have defined without 
> knowing
> anything about wiki markups. The only differences are:
> - why don't use /this/ for italics ?
> - why don't use _this_ for underline ?
> - why don't use \ for the escape (~) character ? (\\ being the real \)
> - why isn't it possible to (temporarily) comment some text in the 
> source ?
>
> Maybe /this/ should be defined as <space>/.../ so URLs would be 
> ignored,
> and \/this/is/a/file/ could be used to protect paths.
>
> For now, as I'm a new user, I'd like to use the new markup only, 
> without
> having to check the new markup box (I want to get rid of this box and 
> the old
> markup). How can I do that ?

There was lengthy discussion about the new syntax, you can read some of 
the thoughts online at:

http://phpwiki.sourceforge.net/phpwiki/NewInlineMarkup
http://phpwiki.sourceforge.net/phpwiki/NewBlockMarkup

There's a lot to consider, everyone has their own interpretation which 
delimiters should mean what. Some notation collides with other notation 
or is difficult to code reliably, like * for lists and *bold*. That's 
not to say it can't be done.

> 2) About WikiFarm
>
> Using a WikiFarm on PHPwiki is too complicated.
> PHPwiki should use one database for all the wikis (maybe with 
> prefixes).
> New wikis should be created/removed by the administrator from his 
> admin page.
> Nothing should have to be done manually on the server.

This was answered in a recent message I think. Of course some work has 
to be done on the server but it's only when the tables are first set 
up, the rest is done by editing the phpwiki configuration.

PhpWiki can already do this (via $DBParams['prefix'] in
the config file).
The only minor catch is that you have to manually edit
the table prefixes in the appropriate schemas/*.sql.


> 3) About index.php
>
> How can I get rid of the .../index.php/... in URLs ?

See http://phpwiki.sourceforge.net/phpwiki/FrequentlyAskedQuestions
     http://phpwiki.sourceforge.net/phpwiki/PrettyWiki

> 4) About HTTP authentication
>
> I have
>
> if (!defined('ALLOW_HTTP_AUTH_LOGIN')) define('ALLOW_HTTP_AUTH_LOGIN', 
> true);
> if (!defined('ALLOW_USER_LOGIN')) define('ALLOW_USER_LOGIN', true);
> if (!defined('ALLOW_BOGO_LOGIN')) define('ALLOW_BOGO_LOGIN', false);
> if (!defined('REQUIRE_SIGNIN_BEFORE_EDIT'))
>   define('REQUIRE_SIGNIN_BEFORE_EDIT', false);
>
> in index.php, but I'm not automatically signed in after HTTP 
> authentication and
> when I go to UserPreferences, PHPwiki still asks me to sign in.

I think this feature is not ready yet... see the FAQ.

> 5) About SQL safe mode
>
> PHPwiki doesn't seem to work when SQL safe mode is On in php.ini.
> Is there something to change in PHPwiki to make it work with safe mode 
> ?
>
>
> 6) About search plugins
>
> The FullTextSearch, FuzzyPages and TitleSearch plugins don't print 
> anything on
> my installation: in the corresponding pages, it just print the 
> "Additional
> Searches" boxes.

There isn't anything else on those pages, but there should be a "Tips" 
section at the bottom too (in the english version, may not be in the 
french translation yet. Which are you using?).

Or do you mean that search is not working, there are no search results 
produced?

> 7) About reverse DNS
>
> On the Sourceforge PHPwiki homepage, the edit page says "Author will 
> be logged
> as" followed by the reverse DNS of the host. On my installation, it is 
> followed
> by the IP address of the host. There's no problem for resolving hosts 
> on this
> machine. I tried setting ENABLE_REVERSE_DNS to true, but it's only for
> ACCESS_LOG.  How can I enable the reverse DNS in edit pages ?

Your 5) and 7) I am not sure about. Anyone else know what to do?

Carsten