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9 ~PhpWiki is written in the server-side scripting language PHP,
10 available from [[http://www.php.net/]]. PHP resembles C and Perl in its
11 syntax, and functions much like ASP, ~EmbPerl or JSP.
13 ~PhpWiki consists of a dozen or so files of mixed PHP and HTML. The web
14 pages that make up a [[Help:WikiWikiWeb|WikiWikiWeb]] based on PHP live in a database with
15 backup copies of previous versions of pages stored as well. (For the
16 database, ~PhpWiki works with DBM, MySQL, PostgreSQL or text files.)
18 Every time a user hits the site, the page requested is pulled from the
19 database and rendered on the fly. The user only really ever requests
20 the file =index.php=, which then decides which other php files to
23 Links to pages in the Wiki are automatically linked: [[FindPage]].
24 This might be the single most compelling aspect of a Wiki, the ability
25 to add pages simply by linking to them. The next most compelling thing
26 is how easily external URLs link, like this:
27 # http://www.wcsb.org/
28 # ftp://ftp.redhat.com/
29 # news://news.mozilla.org/
30 # http://slashdot.org/
31 # http://theregister.co.uk/
33 Combined with one namespace and a simple markup, a Wiki exhibits many
34 of the characteristics of [[Help:WabiSabi|WabiSabi]].
36 ~PhpWiki is licensed under the GNU General Public license, which you
37 should be able to see here: [[http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.txt]].
41 [[PhpWikiDocumentation]]