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[Phpwiki-talk] Business Week Magazine, and a plea for a stable release

[Micki K. <mic...@co...>]

Reini, Carsten, Steve, Jeff -

Check out these articles on Business Week magazine. Corporate use of 
wiki's for documentation should increase dramatically in the coming 
months and years - we need to get phpwiki strong and stable (and NOT 
too bloated), to attract attention and positive mention in this arena!

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_23/b3886138.htm
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_23/b3886141.htm

Here in our wiki environment, we're still stuck on my modified 1.3.4 
for my 100-person team... we need a new version, but I too am having 
little success in trying to get a stable recent release up - I 
downloaded 1.3.10 and it has major problems with the include_paths.

This time, I get a fatal error:

  Fatal error: main(): Failed opening required 'DB.php' 
(include_path='.:/Library/WebServer/Documents/phpwiki') in 
  /Library/WebServer/Documents/phpwiki/lib/WikiDB/backend/PearDB.php on line 7

I tried all the options, like

INCLUDE_PATH = ".:/Library/WebServer/Documents/phpwiki" and
SCRIPT_NAME = /Library/WebServer/Documents/phpwiki/index.php
DATA_PATH = /phpwiki
PHPWIKI_DIR = /Library/WebServer/Documents/phpwiki

etc.

I DON'T wanna have to change all the include statements to 
absolutes... what's going on here? In the past, i could count on it 
'finding itself', etc., without such deep tweaks - but now, it's 
fatal error city.

I know many fixes are coming, but PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE, let's 
concentrate next on bulletproofing, avoiding feature creep and easy 
deployment! Phpwiki is the best wiki out there, can be GREAT for 
corporate use with a few mods like pdfs, includes and toc, but the 
expectations for easy install are high indeed! Otherwise, open source 
looks fragile to finicky corporate types... I'll continue to hone my 
skills on the code base, but it's very difficult to familiarize 
yourself with the code when ou cannot get the wiki to work at all...

Thanks,
Micki
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Micki
mailto:mic...@co...

Re: [Phpwiki-talk] Business Week Magazine, and a plea for a stable release

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

Micki Kaufman schrieb:
> success in trying to get a stable recent release up - I downloaded 
> 1.3.10 and it has major problems with the include_paths.
> 
> This time, I get a fatal error:
> 
>  Fatal error: main(): Failed opening required 'DB.php' 
> (include_path='.:/Library/WebServer/Documents/phpwiki') in 
>  /Library/WebServer/Documents/phpwiki/lib/WikiDB/backend/PearDB.php on 
> line 7
> 
> I tried all the options, like
> 
> INCLUDE_PATH = ".:/Library/WebServer/Documents/phpwiki" and

You don't have any pear in your include path. The change was mentioned 
in the ReleaseNotes (and here also).
Either include your own pear, the phpwiki/lib/pear or leave INCLUDE_PATH 
empty and let the system guess the include_path.
-- 
Reini Urban
http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/

Re: [Phpwiki-talk] Business Week Magazine, and a plea for a stable release

[Micki K. <mic...@co...>]

Reini:

That tip worked - thank you!

Perhaps the config.ini should contain the /lib/pear as well, to help 
folks who are setting the options in config.ini.

Now, I'm rolling up my sleeves and trying some new stuff!

Thanks again,
Micki

At 10:16 AM +0200 6/1/04, Reini Urban wrote:
>Micki Kaufman schrieb:
>>success in trying to get a stable recent release up - I downloaded 
>>1.3.10 and it has major problems with the include_paths.
>>
>>This time, I get a fatal error:
>>
>>  Fatal error: main(): Failed opening required 'DB.php' 
>>(include_path='.:/Library/WebServer/Documents/phpwiki') in 
>>/Library/WebServer/Documents/phpwiki/lib/WikiDB/backend/PearDB.php 
>>on line 7
>>
>>I tried all the options, like
>>
>>INCLUDE_PATH = ".:/Library/WebServer/Documents/phpwiki" and
>
>You don't have any pear in your include path. The change was 
>mentioned in the ReleaseNotes (and here also).
>Either include your own pear, the phpwiki/lib/pear or leave 
>INCLUDE_PATH empty and let the system guess the include_path.
>--
>Reini Urban
>http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/


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Micki
mailto:mic...@co...

Re: [Phpwiki-talk] Business Week Magazine, and a plea for a stable release

[Oliver B. <ob...@de...>]

Micki Kaufman <mic...@co...> wrote:

> Check out these articles on Business Week magazine. Corporate use of 
> wiki's for documentation should increase dramatically in the coming 
> months and years - we need to get phpwiki strong and stable (and NOT 
> too bloated), to attract attention and positive mention in this arena!

100% agree. Wiki can be extremly useful in a corporate environment 
although decision makers could be concerned about security (against 
unauthorized access and loss of data).

And users are hard to convince to contribute - they are afraid of 
pressing "Edit", they are too lazy, and they don't want to share 
knowledge.

Many of these problems could be eliminated with good documentation 
for administration and usage. A quick look at 1.3.10 showed that this 
already improved very much - many thanks, Reini!

When (if...) I find the time to migrate my personal Wiki to >=1.3.10, 
I will try to document unclear things and submit it as documentation 
suggestion.

For the moment, I only found that people might not know that in the 
INI file, single quotes are _not_ delimiters.

Oliver