Re: [sfWiki-devel] sfwiki.sourceforge.net

[Iain S. <iai...@ya...>]

At 08:13 PM 11/16/00 -0500, Todd L. Miller wrote:

> > Things do appear to be working though.  In the info view of a page, is the
> > title supposed to read "TopicName is linked to from"?  Perhaps it 
> should be
> > "TopicName is linked from/to" or "TopicName has the following wiki links"
> > or "TopicName has the following wiki connections".
>
>         Yeah, 'linked to from' is a really ugly way of saying that the
>following pages have links to the page about which you requested
>info.  Maybe 'The following pages link to TopicName'?  (I'll change it
>when you get back to me.)

Sounds good to me.

> > Oh, and I noticed that the summary doesn't display in any of the
> > listings... either in the hubs and nodes and topics list (where it doesn't
> > look like its really intended (but perhaps should be)) or in the search
> > results where there definitely is a space for it but its blank.  It's not
> > in the source so I think its just not getting sucked in.
>
>         OK, I'll take a look at this.  /Should/ it appear in the
>topics/hubs-and-nodes lists?

Yes.  I think it should.  If a page has a summary, we might as well display 
it every chance we get.  :)

> > Other than that no other obvious problems.  And the formatting works well
> > (although it would be interesting to throw some of the funkier pages from
> > the joswiki at it to see what happens.  :)
>
>         Actually, I'd appreciate details on how the current joswiki
>(a) renders pages and (b) stores them, so that I can write up an
>importer.  I assume there's some fairly straightforward way of sucking the
>full text out of whatever database it's using?  If so, it's just a matter
>of figuring out how to pipe that (and the topic) into edit.inc in the
>right place, I think.  (If PHP lets you play with whatever kind of
>database joswiki uses, this could /very/ easy.  Which would be nice :))

If you can read perl, the wiki.pl file really has the complete list of perl 
regex's used to match and render the markups.  I don't think we have to be 
too loyal to it if its not too convenient (perhaps if not, the importer can 
do on-the-fly conversions to equivilents (or at least strip out unsupported 
joswiki markups).

As far as how the joswiki files are stored, its a single directory with 
1500 files in it (the file name is the topic name).  And the file itself 
stores the plain wiki text.  So import is really just a "while dir has more 
files, file open and read and then blast it into the database".  :)

-iain