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[Phpwiki-talk] Planning new configurator for config-dist & config-user

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

Hi All,

I'd like to discuss any plans or ideas you  may have to add the 
configurator.php functionality together with the new config system. 
This might require a brand new configurator who knows, I am willing to 
put time in there.

Instead of the current self-contained configurator, a new configurator 
could parse the config-dist file eliminating the need to update the 
configurator whenever something is added to index.php (or config-dist).

The configurator would still present the admin with a locally 
accessible the web page for choosing all the config options, but a 
plugin might be possible to hook into the configurator for post-install 
tweaking. Then configurator outputs only the parameters which changed 
from those in config-dist (maybe along with minimal comments) and 
stores them into config-user.php.

Power users can still avoid the configurator if they like, by copying 
what they want from config-dist and paste it into config-user themseves 
for manual modification.

Also a pedantic request to reconsider the filename config-user.php. I 
have no "super" ideas yet, how about config-local?

Carsten

Re: [Phpwiki-talk] Planning new configurator for config-dist & config-user

[Russ M. <rm...@no...>]

> I'd like to discuss any plans or ideas you  may have to add the
> configurator.php functionality together with the new config system.


What is the issue with the configurator running the schema and setting up
the DB tables? That would be a nice fix.

russ

Re: [Phpwiki-talk] Planning new configurator for config-dist & config-user

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

Hi Russ,

I believe an automated database setup was something the PhpWiki team 
just never got around to doing... it's a good idea, and off the top of 
my head I can't think of any reason why it couldn't be added to the 
configurator. :)

Carsten

On Tuesday, January 14, 2003, at 08:17  am, Russ Miller wrote:

>> I'd like to discuss any plans or ideas you  may have to add the
>> configurator.php functionality together with the new config system.
>
>
> What is the issue with the configurator running the schema and setting 
> up
> the DB tables? That would be a nice fix.
>
> russ

Re: [Phpwiki-talk] Planning new configurator for config-dist & config-user

[Joby W. <joby@u.washington.edu>]

Sorry I've been gone for a while (holidays, other work projects).

Carsten, I can help with this element as well.  And config-local.php is 
way better than config-user.php.

Moving the schema into this would be a very good idea since this would 
dramatically ease the install routine and make customizing the tables 
(for multiple wikis) much easier.

My preference would be for:

1) config-valid.php (config/valid.php?) - The ultimate authority with 
the default values and classes to validate new values.  This file would 
not be loaded in the normal operation of PHPWIKI -- only if a 
configuration routine is invoked.
2) config-dist.php (config/dist.php?) - Produced by either the web 
configurator or a cli configurator via the config-valid.php with the 
default values.
3) config-local.php (config/local.php?) - Produced by either the web 
configurator or a cli configurator via the config-valid.php.
4a) configurator.php (config/webconfig.php) - Web based configuration 
tool uses base classes in config-valid.php to produce config-dist.php 
and config-local.php which can be downloaded and then uploaded to the 
proper directory.  This app can be set to show the current 
config-local.php settings or if greater security is desired not include 
those values.
  b) config-cli.php (config/cliconfig.php?) - CLI configuration tool 
uses base classes in config-valid.php to produce config-dist.php and 
config-local.php.

Use of this file will mean that the configurators (4) will not have to 
use PCRE to parse the comments of the config-dist.php to come up with 
the potentially valid values.

Alternately, if it is desired to have config-dist.php be the ultimate 
authority and use PRCE on the comments in config-dist.php.  A 
config-valid.php (or perhaps config-tools.php) would be useful to hold 
classes used to do the PRCE parsing so that both the web and cli 
versions of the configurator don't have to do their own implimentation.

jbw

Carsten Klapp wrote:
> Hi Russ,
> 
> I believe an automated database setup was something the PhpWiki team 
> just never got around to doing... it's a good idea, and off the top of 
> my head I can't think of any reason why it couldn't be added to the 
> configurator. :)
> 
> Carsten
> 
> On Tuesday, January 14, 2003, at 08:17  am, Russ Miller wrote:
> 
>>> I'd like to discuss any plans or ideas you  may have to add the
>>> configurator.php functionality together with the new config system.
>>
>>
>>
>> What is the issue with the configurator running the schema and setting up
>> the DB tables? That would be a nice fix.
>>
>> russ
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Re: [Phpwiki-talk] Planning new configurator for config-dist & config-user

[Matti A. <ma...@ik...>]

Joby Walker wrote:

> Carsten, I can help with this element as well.  And config-local.php is 
> way better than config-user.php.

Another name choice might be config-site.php.

m.