1 Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 13:46:13 +0000
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11 ~PhpWiki is written in the server-side scripting language PHP,
12 available from http://www.php.net/. PHP resembles C and Perl in its
13 syntax, and functions much like ASP, ~EmbPerl or JSP.
15 ~PhpWiki consists of a dozen or so files of mixed PHP and HTML. The web
16 pages that make up a [[Help:WikiWikiWeb|WikiWikiWeb]] based on PHP live in a database with
17 backup copies of previous versions of pages stored as well. (For the
18 database, ~PhpWiki works with DBM, MySQL, PostgreSQL or text files.)
20 Every time a user hits the site, the page requested is pulled from the
21 database and rendered on the fly. The user only really ever requests
22 the file =index.php=, which then decides which other php files to
25 Links to pages in the Wiki are automatically linked: AddingPages.
26 This might be the single most compelling aspect of a Wiki, the ability
27 to add pages simply by linking to them. The next most compelling thing
28 is how easily external URLs link, like this:
30 # http://www.wcsb.org/
31 # ftp://ftp.redhat.com/
32 # news://news.mozilla.org/
33 # http://slashdot.org/
34 # http://theregister.co.uk/
36 Combined with one namespace and a simple markup, a Wiki exhibits many
37 of the characteristics of [[Help:WabiSabi|WabiSabi]].
39 ~PhpWiki is licensed under the GNU General Public license, which you
40 should be able to see here: http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.txt.
44 [[PhpWikiDocumentation]]