[Wxlua-users] Re: wxLua website (was Re: wxlua linux)

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Hi,

k. holwerda ha scritto:
>> I really don't know much about web stuff, I would just do straight
>> HTML since that's all I know.
>>  
>>
> Same for me, i can even do frames.
> But all i see around looks much better then mine :-(
> 
> With these modern tools, which are WYSIWYG, anyone can help to generate 
> content, and it even looks good.
> But if we make a CVS module that is oke with me, or even upload directly 
> to the site  might be easier.
> I do not expect many people working on it at the same moment :-)
> Someone able to make something good looking?
> I can do wxArt2D like appearance, which has the  advantage that  all 
> subparts can simply be edited  with  vi (not me ;-) ), or nvu. Nothing 
> fancy, and a bit old fashion,
I think that using a CMS like Joomla is a bit overkill for this project.
CMS are good when there are daily changes or so.
In fact, they require quite powerful servers as they are not extremely 
fast - they use ton of tables in a database and a page often requires up 
to 20-30 database accesses.

Last, they won't be easy to setup on SF server environment...

So I vote for something PHP based.
I've learned PHP for the wxCode website in about a week thanks to the 
fact that it's almost like writing C (the only difference which comes to 
mind now is that variables are always preceded by a $ sign) and to the 
good and exaustive docs available on WWW.

Using PHP it's very easy to setup a site using one of the open source 
web designs at http://www.oswd.org. Unfortunately the site seems down 
right now so I suggest you to go directly in author's webpages like

     http://haran.freeshell.org/oswd/

For some real-world examples of OSWD in actions you can look at:

http://bakefile.sourceforge.net/
http://wxcode.sourceforge.net/
http://mathdev.sourceforge.net/

specially the last one uses the Prosimii template by Haran:

    http://haran.freeshell.org/oswd/prosimii/

which I think would be nice for wxLua, too.

Francesco