phpwiki-talk

Re: [Phpwiki-talk] The RateItPlugin does not work

[Reini U. <ru...@x-...>]

Marc-Etienne Vargenau schrieb:
> I am trying with no success to make the RateItPlugin work.
>
> First, the wikilens theme does not work.
> In themes/wikilens/templates/body.tmpl
> we have
> <?plugin IncludePage page="LeftbarContent" quiet="true" ?>
> but I do not find a LeftbarContent anywhere.

That page just needs to be added, I remember.
No big deal, no blocker. Just a neat trick.

> Then I tried with MonoBook theme, which derives from wikilens
> theme.
> I got an error that the "query" method does not exist.
> I am using PearDB.
>
> I have found a "query" method in PDO.php but not
> in the other backends.

Uh, I need to fix that.

> What should be done to make the RateItPlugin work?

I'm using it with dba and a MonoBook derived theme.
PearDB and ADODB definitely worked before, so it will
not be much work to find the bug.
-- 
Reini Urban
http://phpwiki.org/  http://murbreak.at/

[Phpwiki-talk] The RateItPlugin does not work

[Marc-Etienne V. <Mar...@al...>]

Hello Reini,

I am trying with no success to make the RateItPlugin work.

First, the wikilens theme does not work.
In themes/wikilens/templates/body.tmpl
we have
<?plugin IncludePage page="LeftbarContent" quiet="true" ?>
but I do not find a LeftbarContent anywhere.

Then I tried with MonoBook theme, which derives from wikilens
theme.
I got an error that the "query" method does not exist.
I am using PearDB.

I have found a "query" method in PDO.php but not
in the other backends.

What should be done to make the RateItPlugin work?

Thank you for your help.

Best regards,

-- 
Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Alcatel-Lucent France, Route de Villejust, 91620 NOZAY, FRANCE
+33 (0)1 30 77 28 33, Mar...@al...

Re: [Phpwiki-talk] New User General Questions

[Oliver B. <li...@gm...>]

Manuel Vacelet wrote:

[...]

> I don't think PhpWiki is dead or should be hidden from the face of internet.
> It's open source, developers & communities come and leave, let's each
> one decide to use it or not.

to avoid misunderstandings: I didn't want to say that PhpWiki is dead 
and should be "hidden from the face of internet".

I just said that if it is not more attractively presented, it will 
not get users.

Oliver
-- 
Oliver Betz, Muenchen

Re: [Phpwiki-talk] New User General Questions

[Manuel V. <man...@gm...>]

Hi all,

Just my 2 cents here.
PhpWiki is packaged with Codendi forge too and it does the job pretty
well since years.
Users mainly complains that "it doesn't look like
DokuWiki/MediaWiki/..." and the default theme is a bit outdated but,
at the end of the day, they can work and that's what matters.

IMHO, PhpWiki would deserve more regular releases, as only developers
can tell if at a given point the product is (more or less) stable or
not.
For instance, we would like to upgrade but the latest 1.3 release is 2
years old.

I don't think PhpWiki is dead or should be hidden from the face of internet.
It's open source, developers & communities come and leave, let's each
one decide to use it or not.

Cheers,
Manuel

Re: [Phpwiki-talk] New User General Questions

[Thompson, S. <S.D...@te...>]

Having started this thread (I'm the new user) I've followed it and occasionally become confused.

However, thanks to the comments I can now see clearly that, as an average user with some tech skills (but only average) that phpwiki is not a piece of software I should pursue the use of.  I came to it via my Cpanel in Fantastico and it looked promising. It still looks promising but the promise is unfulfilled. I shall suggest that my ISP remove it from the Fantasico offering.

It's all well and good to say users may stumble upon it and use it or not, try it out, it's free. No actually, it's not free - it costs the user time to figure it out and seek support and documentation and if these things are not easily found then the time wasted by the potential user can build up.

IMHO I think this product should be moved away from public view where it can be stumbled upon and trialed to the frustration and eventual abandonment of the user. I don't quite know what the references to the 1000's of folks behind a firewall meant but perhaps this is where this software should go - behind a firewall.

I hope I've not upset anyone with my comments, this is not my intention, it's quite possible I've misunderstood many things.

Steve T


On 01/04/2010 09:53, "Oliver Betz" <li...@gm...> wrote:

Reini Urban wrote:

> >>> I still see no active "community".
> >>
> >> Yes, as I said, it's not visible here.
> >
> > where is it visible? Maybe...
>
> Between 50 and 100 messages per month is not so bad.

that was long, long ago. So this should read "_was_ not bad".

> https://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=phpwiki-talk
> In the last two years it settled because users went away.

More than two years. That's the problem I'm writing about.

I don't want to degrade your work on PhpWiki - I thank you that you
took over PhpWiki maintenance (I'm still running a 2006 version where
you already contributed).

But the website and "we really don't need to persuade others to use
it. Install it, try it out, through it away. You are free." confirm
my impression that PhpWiki is now just for few "insiders" but not
recommendable for the average user.

Oliver
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Re: [Phpwiki-talk] New User General Questions

[Oliver B. <li...@gm...>]

Reini Urban wrote:

> >>> I still see no active "community".
> >>
> >> Yes, as I said, it's not visible here.
> >
> > where is it visible? Maybe...
> 
> Between 50 and 100 messages per month is not so bad.

that was long, long ago. So this should read "_was_ not bad".

> https://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=phpwiki-talk
> In the last two years it settled because users went away.

More than two years. That's the problem I'm writing about.

I don't want to degrade your work on PhpWiki - I thank you that you 
took over PhpWiki maintenance (I'm still running a 2006 version where 
you already contributed).

But the website and "we really don't need to persuade others to use 
it. Install it, try it out, through it away. You are free." confirm 
my impression that PhpWiki is now just for few "insiders" but not 
recommendable for the average user.

Oliver
-- 
Oliver Betz, Muenchen

Re: [Phpwiki-talk] New User General Questions

[Joel U. <uck...@no...>]

Thus spake "Oliver Betz":
> 
> > And we really don't need to persuade others to use it. 
> 
> That seems to be the point. IMO PhpWiki is no more a public supported 
> and used project.
> 
> That's sad.

For the record, the all the things you're saying here sum up why
I gave up on contributing to PhpWiki some years ago.
 
-- 
J.

Re: [Phpwiki-talk] Disallow some characters in wiki page names

[Reini U. <ru...@x-...>]

Hello,

Marc-Etienne Vargenau schrieb:
> I would like to disallow some characters in wiki page names
> (commas that create many problems, e.g. for backlinks
> and page renaming, "<" and">").

This was already in my TODO.
,<> and should really be escaped,
, to easy pagelists, <> for consistency with the file backends.

> I tried in stdlib "function isValid" but it does not seem
> to work (called too late?).
>
> What is the best way to do this?

Hmm, I'll have to try this also.
Probably similar as the file backend does it.
-- 
Reini Urban
http://phpwiki.org/  http://murbreak.at/

Re: [Phpwiki-talk] New User General Questions

[Reini U. <ru...@x-...>]

Oliver Betz schrieb:
> Reini Urban wrote:
>>> There are two developers only, but many users.
>>
>>> I still see no active "community".
>>
>> Yes, as I said, it's not visible here.
>
> where is it visible? Maybe...

Between 50 and 100 messages per month is not so bad.
https://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=phpwiki-talk
In the last two years it settled because users went away.
But new features and fixes are still happening in the same pace as before.

>> I'm still presenting phpwiki on various wiki conferences and barcamps,
>> but as Patrick Michaud, the pmwiki developer, we have more to do with
>> our perl compiler projects, Patrick for perl6, me for perl5, besides
>> our real work as knowledge engineers.
>>
>> Marc-Etienne has his users behind the Alcatel-Lucent firewall, my
>> users are behind the AVL firewall. Both are companies with>2500
>> developers.
>
> ...in these two companies? So PhpWiki became a somewhat private
> thing?

It's still open and free. It's still on sourceforge, though sf sucks.

>> I believe Google or Zend have less developers if you want to play the
>> number game.
>
> I don't understand what you want to express here.
>
>>>>> * Many plugins, in my opinion more, better and easier than mediawiki
>>>>> plugins. mediawiki just has easier syntax plugins.
>>>>
>>>> For example? Where are these plugins documented?
>>
>> Every plugin has its help page.
>
> Well, most of them are not really helpful to me, and I guess there
> are other "clueless" users.
>
>> You can e.g. see them at
>> http://phpwiki.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/phpwiki/trunk/pgsrc/
>> at Help%2F*Plugin
>> Doesn't look too hard to find.
>
> How should the average user guess the SVN path? There is not even a
> link to the SVN repository on the web page.

The average user has his installation or link to the wiki, and does not 
need svn.

> The average user might try to install the "stable" (read: old) or
> "current" version and see the documentation coming with the
> installation files. In this documentation, there are many links to
> the broken sourceforge PhpWiki site.

This is via interwiki links, and the new installations changed Help: to 
Help/

>> Not every applications needs an online demo site.
>
> But it needs much more documentation. The old PhpWiki site had some
> extended documentation, and now it's gone. The "community" has no
> place to add knowledge today.

The community can ask to add to the official docu via email or svn.
Almost every SW development happens like this.
We were just lucky to have a demo on sf.net.

>> We would like to have some demo site online again, but we need a
>> server. Since we are not at the university anymore, rather in big
>> companies we don't have such a server ready.
>
> and the big companies don't want to support the open source project
> they get benefit from? Some server space would be peanuts for them.

Not really. Big companies are different. They rather pay for a 
commercial SW millions than support a cheap open source SW.
My company paid millions for MS Sharepoint Server license, and it still 
has only 10% of the phpwiki features.
They also pay millions for Oracle while a really good and fast database 
would be free.

> [...]
>
>> BTW: All this is no user support.
>> A user would have found it by himself.
>
> I disagree strongly.
>
>> And we really don't need to persuade others to use it.
>
> That seems to be the point. IMO PhpWiki is no more a public supported
> and used project.

The main problem is the server. I don't want to afford one, I asked 
several times, but no one sprang in. So there will be no demo site.
It's also easier to keep it spam-free this way.

> That's sad.

Indeed.
-- 
Reini Urban
http://phpwiki.org/  http://murbreak.at/

Re: [Phpwiki-talk] New User General Questions

[Oliver B. <li...@gm...>]

Reini Urban wrote:

> > There are two developers only, but many users.
> 
> > I still see no active "community".
> 
> Yes, as I said, it's not visible here.

where is it visible? Maybe...

> I'm still presenting phpwiki on various wiki conferences and barcamps,
> but as Patrick Michaud, the pmwiki developer, we have more to do with
> our perl compiler projects, Patrick for perl6, me for perl5, besides
> our real work as knowledge engineers.
> 
> Marc-Etienne has his users behind the Alcatel-Lucent firewall, my
> users are behind the AVL firewall. Both are companies with >2500
> developers.

...in these two companies? So PhpWiki became a somewhat private 
thing?

> I believe Google or Zend have less developers if you want to play the
> number game.

I don't understand what you want to express here.

> >>> * Many plugins, in my opinion more, better and easier than mediawiki
> >>> plugins. mediawiki just has easier syntax plugins.
> >>
> >> For example? Where are these plugins documented?
> 
> Every plugin has its help page.

Well, most of them are not really helpful to me, and I guess there 
are other "clueless" users.

> You can e.g. see them at
> http://phpwiki.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/phpwiki/trunk/pgsrc/
> at Help%2F*Plugin
> Doesn't look too hard to find.

How should the average user guess the SVN path? There is not even a 
link to the SVN repository on the web page.

The average user might try to install the "stable" (read: old) or 
"current" version and see the documentation coming with the 
installation files. In this documentation, there are many links to 
the broken sourceforge PhpWiki site.

> Not every applications needs an online demo site.

But it needs much more documentation. The old PhpWiki site had some 
extended documentation, and now it's gone. The "community" has no 
place to add knowledge today.

> We would like to have some demo site online again, but we need a
> server. Since we are not at the university anymore, rather in big
> companies we don't have such a server ready. 

and the big companies don't want to support the open source project 
they get benefit from? Some server space would be peanuts for them.

[...]

> BTW: All this is no user support.
> A user would have found it by himself.

I disagree strongly.

> And we really don't need to persuade others to use it. 

That seems to be the point. IMO PhpWiki is no more a public supported 
and used project.

That's sad.

Oliver
-- 
Oliver Betz, Muenchen

Re: [Phpwiki-talk] New User General Questions

[Oliver B. <li...@gm...>]

rei...@gm... wrote:

[...PmWiki and DokuWiki als alternative...]

note that I did intentionally not mention MediaWiki. It's made for 
Wikipedia and not for general use.

> > > phpwiki has much more features than those two.

I don't think so.

> > Maybe I don't know enough about the PhpWiki features, because I don't
> > know where to look them up. Could you name some important features of
> > PhpWiki not found in PmWiki?
> 
> * All database backends, all php versions, all major operating systems, not  
> just LAMP with php5.

Ack (as I wrote).

> * Many plugins, in my opinion more, better and easier than mediawiki  
> plugins. mediawiki just has easier syntax plugins.

I don't know MediaWiki, but many PhpWiki plugins are simply not 
needed in PmWiki. I see not many plugins providing functionality not 
present in PmWiki. And the documentation of the PhpWiki plugins is 
definitely worse, so I doubt "easier".

> * DynamicIncludePages (IncludePage via Ajax to create tree-like structures  
> loaded on demand)

Can't find useful documentation about this even in SVN.

> * Many login and auth methods, just facebook connect and email verification  
> not yet.

Ack.

> * Moderated pages

The help page says no more than "short description" (as on many other 
help pages). I included <?plugin ModeratedPage ?> in a page and 
didn't notice a difference. So I can't check how it works.

BTW: PmWiki also knows "draft" edits and user permissions to 
"publish".

> * Semantic relations and queries

Reading Help/SemanticRelations, I don't fully understand the 
difference between relation::pagename and attribute:=value. PmWiki 
also knows page text variables and has extensive capabilities to use 
them, e.g. in page lists or conditionals. A very powerful feature.

[...]

> I also prefer the template inheritance, so that it can easily be extended  
> whilst not breaking
> HTML conformity, in contrary to mediawiki.

You might want to have a look at the PmWiki templates.

Oliver
-- 
Oliver Betz, Muenchen

Re: [Phpwiki-talk] New User General Questions

[Reini U. <ru...@x-...>]

2010/3/30 Morgan Aldridge <mo...@ma...>:
> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 7:18 AM, Oliver Betz <li...@gm...> wrote:
>>
>> rei...@gm... wrote:
>>
>>> There's no website unfortunately.
>>> Docs are in http://phpwiki.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/phpwiki/trunk/doc/
>>> at http://phpwiki.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/phpwiki/trunk/pgsrc/
>>
>> not appropriate IMNSHO.
>
> There are two developers only, but many users.

> I still see no active "community".

Yes, as I said, it's not visible here.

I'm still presenting phpwiki on various wiki conferences and barcamps,
but as Patrick Michaud, the pmwiki developer, we have more to do with
our perl compiler projects, Patrick for perl6, me for perl5, besides
our real work as knowledge engineers.

Marc-Etienne has his users behind the Alcatel-Lucent firewall, my
users are behind the AVL firewall. Both are companies with >2500
developers.
I believe Google or Zend have less developers if you want to play the
number game.

>>> * Many plugins, in my opinion more, better and easier than mediawiki
>>> plugins. mediawiki just has easier syntax plugins.
>>
>> For example? Where are these plugins documented?

Every plugin has its help page.
You can e.g. see them at
http://phpwiki.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/phpwiki/trunk/pgsrc/
at Help%2F*Plugin
Doesn't look too hard to find.

> I have to agree, I found it very unprofessional and off-putting that
> there's no website with documentation, esp. not one running on your
> own software!

Install it and browse the Help esp. for the plugins

Not every applications needs an online demo site. We would like to
have some demo site online again, but we need a server. Since we are
not at the university anymore,
rather in big companies we don't have such a server ready.

> I inherited a very old install of PhpWiki that I couldn't easily
> migrate to a newer version and it didn't survive a required upgrade to
> PHP 5. I did get a little support here at the time, but responses were
> extremely slow since the community is so small. And without even basic
> documentation, I had little interest in pursuing the project.
>
> Someday I'll get an old copy of apache & PHP running so I can try to
> recover all the data in it, but it's really a shame.
>
> Morgan

BTW: All this is no user support.
A user would have found it by himself. And we really don't need to
persuade others to use it.
Install it, try it out, through it away. You are free.

Re: [Phpwiki-talk] New User General Questions

[Morgan A. <mo...@ma...>]

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 7:18 AM, Oliver Betz <li...@gm...> wrote:
>
> rei...@gm... wrote:
>
>> There's no website unfortunately.
>> Docs are in http://phpwiki.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/phpwiki/trunk/doc/
>> at http://phpwiki.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/phpwiki/trunk/pgsrc/
>
> not appropriate IMNSHO.

[snip]

>> * Many plugins, in my opinion more, better and easier than mediawiki
>> plugins. mediawiki just has easier syntax plugins.
>
> For example? Where are these plugins documented?

I have to agree, I found it very unprofessional and off-putting that
there's no website with documentation, esp. not one running on your
own software!

I inherited a very old install of PhpWiki that I couldn't easily
migrate to a newer version and it didn't survive a required upgrade to
PHP 5. I did get a little support here at the time, but responses were
extremely slow since the community is so small. And without even basic
documentation, I had little interest in pursuing the project.

Someday I'll get an old copy of apache & PHP running so I can try to
recover all the data in it, but it's really a shame.

Morgan
---
http://www.makkintosshu.com/

Re: [Phpwiki-talk] New User General Questions

[Oliver B. <li...@gm...>]

rei...@gm... wrote:

> > > sf.net is not being maintained actively.
> > so where is a meaningful PhpWiki website, documentation, community?
> 
> There's no website unfortunately.
> Docs are in http://phpwiki.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/phpwiki/trunk/doc/
> at http://phpwiki.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/phpwiki/trunk/pgsrc/

not appropriate IMNSHO.

> > This list has transported 60 Messages in the past 12 months - one
> > message every six days... I counted some four developers and ten
> > "other" users.
> 
> There are two developers only, but many users.

I still see no active "community".

[...]

> > > phpwiki has much more features than those two.
> > Maybe I don't know enough about the PhpWiki features, because I don't
> > know where to look them up. Could you name some important features of
> > PhpWiki not found in PmWiki?
> 
> * All database backends, all php versions, all major operating systems, not  
> just LAMP with php5.

PmWiki doesn't require LAMP or even PHP5.

> * Many plugins, in my opinion more, better and easier than mediawiki  
> plugins. mediawiki just has easier syntax plugins.

For example? Where are these plugins documented?

> * DynamicIncludePages (IncludePage via Ajax to create tree-like structures  
> loaded on demand)

Interesting - where can I read more about this?

> * Many login and auth methods, just facebook connect and email verification  
> not yet.

Ack.

> * Moderated pages

?

> * Semantic relations and queries

What's this? Where can I read more?

> In contrary to pmwiki's and dokuwiki's design principle: Avoid gratuitous  
> features (or "creeping featurism")

Ack, the PmWiki core (240kBytes) has no featurism. There are many 
extensions, but you can do many things with core functionality.

> we extend it is much as possible with creeping featurism.

So you consider creeping featurism in the core good?

> I also prefer the template inheritance, so that it can easily be extended  

Don't know about "template inheritance" - where can I read more?

Oliver
-- 
Oliver Betz, Muenchen

Re: [Phpwiki-talk] New User General Questions

[<rei...@gm...>]

Am 30.03.2010 10:29 schrieb Oliver Betz <li...@gm...>:
> Reini Urban wrote:
> > sf.net is not being maintained actively.
> so where is a meaningful PhpWiki website, documentation, community?

There's no website unfortunately.
Docs are in http://phpwiki.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/phpwiki/trunk/doc/
at http://phpwiki.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/phpwiki/trunk/pgsrc/

> This list has transported 60 Messages in the past 12 months - one
> message every six days... I counted some four developers and ten
> "other" users.

There are two developers only, but many users.
Most are behind firewalls, in big cooperate intranet's with thousands of  
users,
well-integrated in larger systems, such as gforge or xapian search.

> > > there are better supported Wikis out there. Even the demo site
> > > http://phpwiki.sourceforge.net/ is broken since years.

> > because phpwiki does not run on this setup and we do not have a shell
> > account anymore..

> > > I switched to PmWiki for active sites but I have still a PhpWiki
> > > running with unmaintained content. I'm just too lazy to convert it,
> > > but at least I listen here to learn about upcoming problems (eg PHP
> > > incompatibilities or security issues).

> > phpwiki has much more features than those two.
> Maybe I don't know enough about the PhpWiki features, because I don't
> know where to look them up. Could you name some important features of
> PhpWiki not found in PmWiki?

* All database backends, all php versions, all major operating systems, not  
just LAMP with php5.
* Many plugins, in my opinion more, better and easier than mediawiki  
plugins. mediawiki just has easier syntax plugins.
* DynamicIncludePages (IncludePage via Ajax to create tree-like structures  
loaded on demand)
* Many login and auth methods, just facebook connect and email verification  
not yet.
* Moderated pages
* Semantic relations and queries

In contrary to pmwiki's and dokuwiki's design principle: Avoid gratuitous  
features (or "creeping featurism")
we extend it is much as possible with creeping featurism.

I also prefer the template inheritance, so that it can easily be extended  
whilst not breaking
HTML conformity, in contrary to mediawiki.

> I know
> * PhpWiki has more database backends,
> * can show diffs between arbitrary revisions
> what am I missing?

Re: [Phpwiki-talk] New User General Questions

[Oliver B. <li...@gm...>]

Reini Urban wrote:

[...]

> > 1.3 is "current".
> 
> yes,
> current svn even contains the 1.4 release candidate.
> there are just cosmetic changes, a new better sidebar theme, missing.
> 
> >> Is this even a supported application. It's hard to tell from the stuff
> >> I've found on the web. I found this
> 
> sf.net is not being maintained actively.

so where is a meaningful PhpWiki website, documentation, community?

This list has transported 60 Messages in the past 12 months - one 
message every six days... I counted some four developers and ten 
"other" users.

> > there are better supported Wikis out there. Even the demo site
> > http://phpwiki.sourceforge.net/ is broken since years.
> 
> because phpwiki does not run on this setup and we do not have a shell
> account anymore..
> 
> > I switched to PmWiki for active sites but I have still a PhpWiki
> > running with unmaintained content. I'm just too lazy to convert it,
> > but at least I listen here to learn about upcoming problems (e.g. PHP
> > incompatibilities or security issues).
> 
> phpwiki has much more features than those two.

Maybe I don't know enough about the PhpWiki features, because I don't 
know where to look them up. Could you name some important features of 
PhpWiki not found in PmWiki?

I know
* PhpWiki has more database backends,
* can show diffs between arbitrary revisions
what am I missing?

Oliver
-- 
Oliver Betz, Muenchen

Re: [Phpwiki-talk] New User General Questions

[Reini U. <ru...@x-...>]

2010/3/29 Oliver Betz <li...@gm...>:
> Thompson, Steve wrote:
>
>> I've just installed PhpWiki and I like the simplicity. It's version
>> 1.2.11 - do I have the most recent?
>
> that's the most recent so called "stable" version, but it's outdated
> afaik.

1.2 is not being improved, yes. stable and fast as a rock.
but no features at all compared to 1.3

> 1.3 is "current".

yes,
current svn even contains the 1.4 release candidate.
there are just cosmetic changes, a new better sidebar theme, missing.

>> Is this even a supported application. It's hard to tell from the stuff
>> I've found on the web. I found this

sf.net is not being maintained actively.

> there are better supported Wikis out there. Even the demo site
> http://phpwiki.sourceforge.net/ is broken since years.

because phpwiki does not run on this setup and we do not have a shell
account anymore..

> I switched to PmWiki for active sites but I have still a PhpWiki
> running with unmaintained content. I'm just too lazy to convert it,
> but at least I listen here to learn about upcoming problems (e.g. PHP
> incompatibilities or security issues).

phpwiki has much more features than those two.

> You might have a look at DokuWiki, too. Somewhat different goals than
> PmWiki's.

You cannot really compare apples with trees.
-- 
Reini Urban
http://phpwiki.org/           http://murbreak.at/

Re: [Phpwiki-talk] New User General Questions

[Oliver B. <li...@gm...>]

Thompson, Steve wrote:

> I've just installed PhpWiki and I like the simplicity. It's version
> 1.2.11 - do I have the most recent? 

that's the most recent so called "stable" version, but it's outdated 
afaik.

1.3 is "current".

> Is this even a supported application. It's hard to tell from the stuff
> I've found on the web. I found this 

there are better supported Wikis out there. Even the demo site 
http://phpwiki.sourceforge.net/ is broken since years.  

I switched to PmWiki for active sites but I have still a PhpWiki 
running with unmaintained content. I'm just too lazy to convert it, 
but at least I listen here to learn about upcoming problems (e.g. PHP 
incompatibilities or security issues).

You might have a look at DokuWiki, too. Somewhat different goals than 
PmWiki's.

Oliver

-- 
Oliver Betz, Muenchen

[Phpwiki-talk] New User General Questions

[Thompson, S. <S.D...@te...>]

Hi,

I've just installed PhpWiki and I like the simplicity. It's version 1.2.11 - do I have the most recent?

Is this even a supported application. It's hard to tell from the stuff I've found on the web. I found this

http://wiki.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/index.php/PhpWikiDocumentation

but it does not seem to refer to the product I have intstalled. It's a phpwiki but looks a lot better than mine. How is that done?

Steve T

[Phpwiki-talk] Disallow some characters in wiki page names

[Marc-Etienne V. <Mar...@al...>]

Hello Reini,

I would like to disallow some characters in wiki page names
(commas that create many problems, e.g. for backlinks
and page renaming, "<" and ">").

I tried in stdlib "function isValid" but it does not seem
to work (called too late?).

What is the best way to do this?

Best regards,

Marc-Etienne

-- 
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Alcatel-Lucent France, Route de Villejust, 91620 NOZAY, FRANCE
+33 (0)1 30 77 28 33, Mar...@al...

Re: [Phpwiki-talk] ziplib

[Reini U. <ru...@x-...>]

2009/11/11 Tom Eicher <ro...@te...>:
> Hi, sorry for not getting back to this earlier,
>
>>> > Do you have any idea what is being zipped or unzipped on every
>>> > page request ?
>> It's the gzipped pre-prepared page object, which is stored in the
>> database. Obviously with a unsupported gzip format.
>
>>> > Any idea how to fix this ?
>> PhpWikiAdministration
>> purge-cache
>
> Yes, that worked, thanks!
> After purge, I was able to "un-un-comment" that code and it's
> working now.
>
> Well, "barely working". As I wrote, I'm still on 1.3.12p3.
>
> I get "lib/Request.php:820: Notice[1024]: The PhpWiki access log file is
> not writable. Please ensure that the file
> '/var/log/apache2/wiki_access_log' is writable, or redefine ACCESS_LOG
> in config/config.ini."
> no matter what I configure in config.ini, even "empty to disable"
> does not help. Also, on every 10th page request or so, I get the
> page as "plain HTML" with no stylesheets... (no, it's not the
> apache, that's working well for other stuff...)

You can disable the accesslog writer in lib/Request.php
class Request {
    function Request() {
...
        if (false) {
            $this->_accesslog = new Request_AccessLog(ACCESS_LOG,
ACCESS_LOG_SQL);
        }
...

>
> It would really be nice to get a working "official major release"...
>
> Download on SF is still 1.2...

That's a problem with the recent sf.net UI change.
You have to get to the 1.3.x series by clicking on "VIEW ALL FILES"
and get to "PhpWiki 1.3" (current) and then to "phpwiki-1.3.14"

> Link to SF Page http://phpwiki.sourceforge.net/phpwiki-1.2/ from
> http://phpwiki.sourceforge.net/ is broken (empty page)...

yes. this is disabled now.

> I'd really like to help out by documenting stuff like that upgrade
> problem you helped solve, or "what to configure on a vanilla Suse
> 11.1 to get PHPWiki running", but for that we need a functioning
> projekt home wiki, right ?
-- 
Reini Urban
http://phpwiki.org/           http://murbreak.at/

Re: [Phpwiki-talk] ziplib

[Tom E. <ro...@te...>]

Hi, sorry for not getting back to this earlier,

>> > Do you have any idea what is being zipped or unzipped on every
>> > page request ?
> It's the gzipped pre-prepared page object, which is stored in the
> database. Obviously with a unsupported gzip format.

>> > Any idea how to fix this ?
> PhpWikiAdministration
> purge-cache

Yes, that worked, thanks!
After purge, I was able to "un-un-comment" that code and it's
working now.

Well, "barely working". As I wrote, I'm still on 1.3.12p3.

I get "lib/Request.php:820: Notice[1024]: The PhpWiki access log file is 
not writable. Please ensure that the file 
'/var/log/apache2/wiki_access_log' is writable, or redefine ACCESS_LOG 
in config/config.ini."
no matter what I configure in config.ini, even "empty to disable"
does not help. Also, on every 10th page request or so, I get the
page as "plain HTML" with no stylesheets... (no, it's not the
apache, that's working well for other stuff...)

It would really be nice to get a working "official major release"...

Download on SF is still 1.2...

Link to SF Page http://phpwiki.sourceforge.net/phpwiki-1.2/ from
http://phpwiki.sourceforge.net/ is broken (empty page)...

I'd really like to help out by documenting stuff like that upgrade
problem you helped solve, or "what to configure on a vanilla Suse
11.1 to get PHPWiki running", but for that we need a functioning
projekt home wiki, right ?

Cheers, Tom.

Re: [Phpwiki-talk] [phpwiki-checkins] SF.net SVN: phpwiki:[7210] trunk/lib/stdlib.php

[Reini U. <ru...@x-...>]

2009/10/13  <var...@us...>:
> Revision: 7210
>          http://phpwiki.svn.sourceforge.net/phpwiki/?rev=7210&view=rev
> Author:   vargenau
> Date:     2009-10-13 08:32:12 +0000 (Tue, 13 Oct 2009)
>
> Log Message:
> -----------
> Repair UTF-8 characters that were broken by r7208

Oops, sorry. I'm on windows.
I have to add the special encoding to my .emacs
-- 
Reini Urban
http://phpwiki.org/           http://murbreak.at/

Re: [Phpwiki-talk] ziplib

[Reini U. <ru...@x-...>]

2009/10/14 Tom Eicher <ro...@te...>:
> stuff), I came to a point where every page request would give a
>> Fatal PhpWiki Error
>> Unsupported ZIP header type: xÚ­T
>
> I tracked down that message and found it in ziplib (line 452 in
> my version). Now the fun thing is, I just commented the
>> ExitWiki(sprintf("Unsupported ZIP header type: %s ", $magic));
> out, and now it seems to run.
>
> My PHP skills are a bit rusty, so I was unable to find out just
> what we're trying to zip or unzip here...
>
> I tried the ziplib versions from the previous phpwikis I still have
> on disk, 1.3.11rc3 and 1.3.10, but they produced the same result.
>
> Questions:
>
> Did I do something harmful by commenting it out ?

No.

> Do you have any idea what is being zipped or unzipped on every
> page request ?

It's the gzipped pre-prepared page object, which is stored in the
database. Obviously with a unsupported gzip format.

> Any idea how to fix this ?

PhpWikiAdministration
purge-cache
-- 
Reini Urban
http://phpwiki.org/           http://murbreak.at/

[Phpwiki-talk] ziplib

[Tom E. <ro...@te...>]

Greetings,

as upgrading systems, and especially everything involving php on
linux is always very painful (at least in my experience ;-) I
always postpone that as long as possible. But now is the time :-)

I have (had ;-) a phpwiki 1.3.12p3 running on SuSE Linux 10.2,
and moved that installation to a new SuSE 10.1 (latest patches).
After fiddling with the usual PHP stuff (register_long_arrays and
stuff), I came to a point where every page request would give a
> Fatal PhpWiki Error
> Unsupported ZIP header type: xÚ­T

I tracked down that message and found it in ziplib (line 452 in
my version). Now the fun thing is, I just commented the
> ExitWiki(sprintf("Unsupported ZIP header type: %s ", $magic));
out, and now it seems to run.

My PHP skills are a bit rusty, so I was unable to find out just
what we're trying to zip or unzip here...

I tried the ziplib versions from the previous phpwikis I still have
on disk, 1.3.11rc3 and 1.3.10, but they produced the same result.

Questions:

Did I do something harmful by commenting it out ?

Do you have any idea what is being zipped or unzipped on every
page request ?

Any idea how to fix this ?

Is it maybe related to the newer linux having different compression
algorithms somehwere, or the newer apache2 httpd ?

Cheers!
Tom.