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1.3.11 Feb, 26 2005, Reini Urban, Joel Uckelman:

Lots of bugfixes, and some feature and performance enhancements.
A new EDIT_TOOLBAR from mediawiki, more page permission enhancements, 
reduced memory usage for pagelists which need no page content, 
related improvement for OldMarkup crashes because of PCRE memory exhaustion.%%%
New <!plugin-list !> syntax and PhpWiki:PageListLibrary args.%%%
Because of SQL changes you'd need to ?action=upgrade to update for SQL.

fixes:
* fixed Today link in all templates if USE_PATH_INFO = false
* fixed PluginManager fatal error line 222
* utf-8 pagenames fixed (typed foreign names from IE)
* CGI: no PATH_INFO fix 
* fix some too loose PhpWiki:PagePermissions for signed, but not authenticated users
  (admin, owner, creator), and edit and view for Bogo and Password users 
* security fix for create ACL: action=edit is now checked for create
* fixed syntax errors in signin.tmpl 
* fixed important WikiDB bug with DEBUG > 0: wrong assertion 
  around line 172 (#954648)
* fixed flatfile ArchiveCleaner assertion
* RssFeedPlugin stability fix for empty feeds or broken connections 
* fixed Sidebar theme CSS, added existing dates to jscalendar
* fixed PhpWiki:ImageLinks, broken since 1.3.10 (Bug #956068)
* fixed lib/pear/File_Passwd loading
* fixed missing DEBUG warnings (Support #954260)
* TranslateText: verbatim needed a pagebreak
* fixed duplicate session_id warning with adodb
* fixed adodb ~DbPassUser login
* fixed external ~DbPassUser login
* fixed adodb action=upgrade
* fixed ~FilePassUser locking problems and session handling
* fixed a lot of LDAP auth and group issues
* fixed LDAP options handling (by John Cole)
* fixed possible security problems: allowing only posixly strict usernames, 
  and an actual LDAP Injection problem, detected by Steve Christey, MITRE.
* honor s=wildcard arguments for ~WikiAdmin plugins
* fixed flatfile assertion (#963268) - check existing previous version
* fixed all msg references from index.php to config/config.ini
* fixed immediate LANG and THEME in-session updates if not stored in prefs
* fixed USER_AUTH_POLICY=old, use only USER_AUTH_ORDER methods (besides ~HttpAuth)
  and removed LDAP, POP3, IMAP default configs.
* RelatedChanges: fixed days links
* fix Rename: Change pagename in all linked pages
* fixed PhpWiki:PageChangeNotification for not-current users
* fixed UpLoadPlugin for filenames with space (Bug #969532)
* fixed label support for CreateTocPlugin (Bug #969495)
* fixed Apache2 crashing with old markup and the CreateTocPlugin. 
  Still cannot edit though.
* catch fatals and request->args changes on dumping
* fixed unneeded UserPreferences plugin login screen on dumphtml
* catch SOAP fatal on GooglePlugin without GOOGLE_LICENSE_KEY
* silently ignore jshide argument on MacIE for AddCommentPlugin and CreateTocPlugin
* PhpWiki is now allow_call_time_pass_reference = Off safe (php.ini)
  Some external libraries are not (Pear_DB odbc, adodb oracle)
* fixed sql statements for pagedata where it is not needed, fixing the 
  typical PageList memory exhaustion on simple page lists.
  cached_html is handled complete seperate now.
* fixed crash after login, by eliminating endless recursion in 
  group isAdmin() checks
* fixed and improved WikiDB pageid caching.
* fixed some WikiGroup errors for WIKIPAGE and DB
* fixed JS_SEARCHREPLACE
* fixed xmlrpc to be able to use the native xmlrpc extension.
* fixed xmlrpc wiki.listLinks method: "name" => "page" param
* fixed WikiAdminUtils behaviour on POST
* fixed strict login on "Db" (by Mikhail Vladimirov)
* more /tmp warnings on flatfile (by Joel Uckelman)

changes:
* ~WikiAdminSetAcl functional
* enabled PhpWiki:PagePermissions for all admin plugins (no admin required): 
  Remove, Rename, Replace, ~SetAcl, Chown
* new Error-style with collapsed output of repeated messages 
* whitespace trim pagenames to avoid abuse
* no double login page header, better login msg. 
* improved ~FileFinder include_path logic (~NormalizeLocalFileName, ...)
** init global FileFinder to add proper include paths at startup
   adds PHPWIKI_DIR to the front if started from another dir, lib/pear to the end.
** fix slashify for Windows
* check more config-default and predefined constants 
* ~AutoSplit pagenames at subpage seperators, esp for Sidebar theme
* improve Pagelist layout by equal pagename width for limited lists 
* added CPAN, OsFaq2, WikiLens to interwiki.map
* ExternalSearchPlugin useimage arg (RFE #952323)
* Simplified some strings for easier translation 
* added hash and object support for ~SessionPassUser userid session variable
* Auth Page=>DB ~PassUser upgrade: delete existing Page prefs, if Db prefs are saved.
* renamed DB_Session.php to ~DbSession.php
* vastly improved french locale support, which is now complete (by Pierrick Meignen).
  english, german and french are now completely translated. The others partially.
* improved ~SetupWiki (virgin setup) loading all required action pages in english,
  if no foreign translation found (by Pierrick Meignen)
* show RelatedChanges only if minimum two links on the current page.
* PageDump: ViewSource link, better actionpage usage, MessageID TZ
* brought ~WikiUser (old) uptodate
* added owner and acl fields to dumps
* import GOOGLE_LICENSE_KEY and FORTUNE_DIR from config.ini
* renamed global $Theme to $~WikiTheme (gforge nameclash)
* aggressive WikiDB and cache memory optimization: don't cache %content 
  and _cached_html if not needed.
* PageDump added format=backup: dump all revisions.
* force mysql to use auto_increment page.id for performance reasons.
  call ?action=upgrade
* extended all plugins which take "pages" and "exclude" params to accept 
  <!plugin-list !> pagelists
* improved SqlResult: templates and variable expansion.
  automatic paging not yet.
* use latest Pear DB features, which will break on older PearDB libs. 
  (escapeSimple). Use INCLUDE_PATH to override.
* INCLUDE_PATH is now prepended, not appended. PHPWIKI_DIR is forced to be first.
* rewrote OldTextFormattingRules, AnciennesR%E8glesDeFormatage
  for proper importing (PCRE+memory related crashes on older php's)
* added extra page.cached_html column. ?action=upgrade or PhpWikiAdministration
  "Convert cached_html" is needed to convert your old pagedata "_cached_html".
* page deletion is now undoable and being seen in RecentChanges. Purge pages 
  by new admin button.
* zipdump and dumphtml contains now images, buttons and css
* improved _WikiTranslation performance with gettext extension
* moved DbSession methods to extra files as with WikiUser files.

new:
* new ENABLE_EDIT_TOOLBAR (from mediawiki), JS_SEARCHREPLACE, 
  AddCategory, AddPlugin buttons
* new other config options: 
** ENABLE_PAGEPERM to turn off ACL (no owner at the statusline if off)
** FORTUNE_DIR to enable random quotes for new pages
* implemented WikiDB page creator and ownership
* added action=pdf: only page formatter missing
* new ~XmlParser, ~HtmlParser: new libs for HTML->wiki import and htmlarea3 support
* new pagename utf8 detection logic (from mediawiki)
* new action=chown|setacl|rename|dump action shortcuts pointing to the plugin
* new SyntaxHighlighter plugin (based on work by alecthomas),
  needs highlight from http://www.andre-simon.de/
* new PloticusPlugin. Full application/xhtml+xml support not yet 
  (javascript document.write() not supported with ENABLE_XHTML_XML)
* new ListPages plugin (by Dan Frankowski)
* new TeX2pngPlugin (by Pierrick Meignen)
* added support for ?force_unlock=1 parameter for stale File_Passwd locks
  (should not be needed anymore, we lock only when we actually change the passwd)
* added mysql-4.1 fix at action=upgrade,
  added CACHE_CONTROL NONE => NO_CACHE config.ini fix to action=upgrade
* author, owner, creator support for WikiAdmin* and AllPages plugins:
** AllPagesCreatedByMe, AllPagesLastEditedByMe, AllPagesOwnedByMe
* added action revert, with button from action=diff
* added option regex to ~WikiAdminSearchReplace
* added oracle PearDB backend (by Philippe Vanhaesendonck)
* added new <!plugin-list PluginName args!> syntax within plugin args
* new plugin IncludePages, esp. for <!plugin-list !>
* added template variable expansion support to the CreatePagePlugin
* added paging support for simple one-column pagelists
* added new PageList options: cols, azhead, comma, commasep, ordered
  and enabled the new args on most plugins.
* added experimental SearchHighlight feature (not for HTML yet)
* added [OverWrite All] button to loadfile action on the first page.
* added [Load & OverWrite] button to PhpWikiAdministration
* performance: use cached static config/config.php, if it's writable by 
  the webserver. (experimental)
* added ACCESS_LOG_SQL &1: read, &2 write. new accesslog sql table. 
  for various log analysis: abuse prevention, recent referrers.
* added more PageChangeNotification on other actions: rename, remove.
  changed subject on create. Collapse mult. emails to one.
* added WikiPluginCached support for image maps, static cache in uploads/ and SVG
* added case-sensitive and regex searching
* added new PhpWiki:WikiFormRich plugin
* added new AppendTextPlugin (by Pascal Giard)
* added RSS2 link (format=rss2)  in RecentChanges. (no cloud channel yet)
* added PhpWikiAdministration WikiDB buttons:
  [Purge all empty unreferenced pages], [Convert cached_html]
* (nyi) new experimental ModeratedPage feature. (i.e. delayed POST actions)
* new edit "[] old markup [Convert]" button to convert and save to new markup.
* new LinkDatabase plugin and actionpage for the http://touchgraph.sourceforge.net/ ~WikiBrowser
* new hyperwiki applet in Sidebar. See http://hypergraph.sourceforge.net/
* new xmlrpc methods: putPage, mailPasswordToUser
* new xmlrpc test framework
* WikiSpam prevention: On GOOGLE_LINKS_NOFOLLOW add rel=nowfollow to all external 
  links, unless the author was authenticated.
* action=upgrade performs now a mysql LOCK TABLE privileges check and fix,
* action=upgrade asks now for the admin's user and password if not defined
* re-enabled and updated configurator.php, which is called automatically on first 
  install (empty config.ini)
* added lib/ASCIIMathPHP and AsciiMath plugin
* added AnalyseAccessLogSqlPlugin (by Charles Corrigan)

1.2.8 (the old-stable branch) Jan, 30 2005, Reini Urban:
* register_globals=off fix:
  fix and centralize broken register_globals=off logic.
* update message catalog

1.2.7 (the old-stable branch) Jan, 6 2005, Reini Urban:
PhpWiki 1.2.7 backport cvs release-1_2-branch enhancements never released with 1.2.3-1.2.6:
* full xhtml conformity
* split_pagename in title and header to help google
* "INSTALL.Mac OS X" added from cvs
* lib/zipfile.php: Content-Disposition: attachment
* lib/config.php, lib/stdlib.php: support new USE_LINK_ICONS and AUTOSPLIT_WIKIWORDS, 
  better i18n $!WikiNameRegexp
* re-added images/* LINK_ICONS, pre-calculate DATA_PATH
* locale/*: fix and update strings and templates esp. for german, 
* index.php: urlparser extended to omit &start_debug=1 and other args
* added minor_edit checkbox
* print more meta tags: robots, favicon, language and PHPWIKI_VERSION

1.2.6 (the old-stable branch) Dec, 19 2004, Reini Urban:
flatfile fixes and enhancement:
* fixed !TitleSearch and Backlinks for flatfile.
* enable MostPopular (hitcount storage) for flatfile 

1.2.7 (the old-stable version) Jan, 6 2005, Reini Urban:
PhpWiki 1.2.7 backport cvs release-1_2-branch enhancements never released with 1.2.3-1.2.6:
* full xhtml conformity
* split_pagename in title and header to help google
* "INSTALL.Mac OS X" added from cvs
* lib/zipfile.php: Content-Disposition: attachment
* lib/config.php, lib/stdlib.php: support new USE_LINK_ICONS and AUTOSPLIT_WIKIWORDS, 
  better i18n $!WikiNameRegexp
* re-added images/* LINK_ICONS, pre-calculate DATA_PATH
* locale/*: fix and update strings and templates esp. for german, 
* index.php: urlparser extended to omit &start_debug=1 and other args
* added minor_edit checkbox
* print more meta tags: robots, favicon, language and PHPWIKI_VERSION

1.2.6 (the old-stable version) Dec, 19 2004, Reini Urban:
flatfile fixes and enhancement:
* fixed !TitleSearch and Backlinks for flatfile.
* enable MostPopular (hitcount storage) for flatfile 

1.2.5 (the old-stable branch) Nov, 28 2004, Reini Urban:
* works with register_globals=off
* adds user/password to pgsql, 
* fix zip and dumpserial on dba, dbm, msql and file,
* and fixes a minor (un)lock issue, displaying the (un)locked page afterwards 
  and not the FrontPage.

1.3.10 May, 13 2004, Reini Urban, Joby Walker:

In short: paging support, adodb rewrite, permission problem fixed.

fixes:
* fixed severe permission problem:
  Default permissions not honored. Everybody was able to edit.
* set UserPreferences for bool and int fixed
* POP3 auth
* dba open problems improved, but not generally fixed
* fixed dba session reading, but still broken
* support wikiword links and image links in RichTable content,
  backlinks still not working.
* fixed navbar links in theme smaller, and made them default
* fixed loading of localized pagenames on action=upgrade
* fixed interwiki.map loading on certain PrettyWiki setups
* re-enabled php-4.0.6 support (broken since 1.3.8: superglobals, array_key_exists),
  4.0.4-pl1 and 4.0.5 do work, but not stable enough.
* fix running phpwiki in "http://server/" (empty DATA_PATH)
* fix PhpWiki:PrettyWiki detection: starter script includes index.php,
  and include main.php by its own to override certain config values.
* fix WikiAdminRemove arguments passed from WikiAdminSelect,
  WikiAdminRemove deleted too many args if passed from WikiAdminSelect
* session transportation improved, no db objects stored
* PageGroup support for [links] and subpages
* HttpClient fixes for older php's
* RssFeed for allow_url_fopen=false, IMAGE support, empty ITEM list
* Theme buttons are now also searched in the default theme
* numerous other minor bugfixes.

changes:
* ADODB update from ancient mysql-only, to 4.21 with all supported databases.
  transaction support, with mysql locking-workarounds
* pear not in our include_path anymore: either use your pear or our pear, 
  by adding it to your include_path or not. use now 1:1 copies of pear libs.
* CreateToc parses now headers with links and formatting optionally, if 
  TOC_FULL_SYNTAX is defined
* PageChangeNotification: userids, not emails are printed
* default theme navbar consistency: linkButtons instead of action buttons
* _~WikiTranslation what=buttons, noT=1, nolinks=1
* ~SetupWiki (virgin setup) also loads all mandatory pages now 
  and overwrites ReleaseNotes
* PageChangeNotification changed subject to "[WikiName] Page change %s",
  update your filters accordingly
* action=upgrade now linked in PhpWikiAdministration,
  db: fix page.id auto_increment and ADD session.sess_ip
* some internal InlineParser optimization
* DBAuthParam statement syntax change: variables now like '$userid'

new:
* new ini-style config instead of old index.php, by Joby Walker
* paging support for pagelists longer than limit
* PopularNearby plugin: same as the classic most popular footer
* formatted single-line plugins supported
* RelatedChanges plugin: only those which are links at the current page
* new GoogleLink pref: add "[G]" lookup on unknown links
* added chinese language support, by Yan-ren Tsai (druryl)
* added missing MacOSX buttons, by Carsten Klapp.
* new Crao theme from http://wiki.crao.net, by Arnaud Fontaine and Laurent Lunati
* extended PhpWiki:InlineImages markup (size, border, ...)


1.3.9-p1 May,5 2004, Reini Urban:

Bugfix patch for the following 1.3.9 problems:
* Default permissions not honored. Everybody was able to edit.
* set UserPreferences for bool and int fixed
* dba open problems improved
* session transportation improved, no db objects stored
* php-4.0.6 support re-enabled (superglobals, array_key_exists)
* WikiAdminRemove deleted too many if args passed from WikiAdminSelect
* PageGroup support for [links] and subpages
* disabled default dba sessions, broken!
* HttpClient fixes for older php's
* RssFeed for allow_url_fopen=false, IMAGE support, empty ITEM list


1.2.4 (the old-stable version) May, 4 2004, Reini Urban:
* improves possible deadlocks in DBA, 
* fixes problems with DBA open failures.


1.2.3 (the old-stable version) Apr, 29 2004, Reini Urban:
* added the most popular footer for dba
* added remove for dba
* fixed a warning on info page


1.3.9 Apr, 12 2004, Reini Urban:

Bugfix release for the following 1.3.8 problems:
* syntax errors in lib/plugin/UpLoad.php
* syntax errors in lib/plugin/WikiAdminRemove.php
* syntax error in schemas/mysql.sql
* several path issues (cannot findfile...), which were caused 
  by a chdir for bindtextdomain in lib/config.php.
    Failed opening required 'lib/stdlib.php', 
    templates/html.tmpl: not found, and more
* added self-registration for DbPassUser
* added GoTo plugin, RateIt action page

1.3.8 Jan-Apr 2004, Reini Urban:

External plugable authentification, DB prefs and sessions, 
some more fixes, docs, themes and plugins.

* new WikiUserNew class (started by Carsten Klapp), 
* new Preferences (optionally from DB, no cookies anymore)
* improved DB_Session (added ADODB + dba support,
  WhoIsOnline support)
* enabled WikiGroup (Joby Walker and Reini Urban)
* new individual PagePermissions (enabled, but not yet enforced)
* new WikiAdminRename, WikiAdminSearchReplace, WikiAdminSetAcl
* several other new plugins: WikiPoll, WhoIsOnline, 
  CreateToc (experimental), AddComment, 
  _WikiTranslation and TranslateText, NoCache,
  UpLoad (by NathanGass, qubit and Reini Urban), 
  IncludeSiteMap (by cuthbertcat and Reini Urban),
  RichTable (by Sameer D. Sahasrabuddhe), 
  CreatePage and RateIt (by Dan Frankowski),
  RssFeed (by Arnaud Fontaine)
* added InterWiki image button support
* added Japanese language support (by Tadashi Jokagi)
* added sqlite support (thanks to Matthew Palmer)
* added theme and plugin-specific PageList column types and theme-specific UserPreferences
* added EmailVerification and PageChangeNotification (experimental)
* added new sess_ip column (DB_Session) for ip-based robot throttling

* Pear DB update, minor performance improvement for PearDB
* PageList: enhanced sortby + limit support, sortable gridbuttons enforced, cleanup.
* minor theme/default overhaul, new theme/smaller, new experimental theme/wikilens
* new theme/Wordpress by Mike Pickering
* updated theme/Sidebar: box methods, fast jscalendar and easier to customize
* more OldStyleTable arguments, PhotoAlbum local fs support
* preliminary action=upgrade (To import new pgsrc pages only yet. not for DB)
* preliminary SOAP support
* added PdfOutput libraries
* experimental javascript Search&Replace edit buttons
* experimental old-browser compatibility code.

* fixed WikiAdminSelect, WikiAdminRemove
* fixed and improved XHTML dumps (css, images, unlinked pages, \r\r\n issue)
* fixed ADODB limit problem, fixed dba on Windows PHP 4.3.x
* fixed BlockParser problem with "0" as text
* fixed UnfoldSubpages sortby
* fixes for PHP5 compatibility started
* fixed gettext, setlocale and update_locale problems

1.3.4 until 1.3.7, 2002-2003 Jeff, Carsten and Steve Wainstead:

* several stable releases with better documentation (most plugins) and various bugfixes.
* EditMetaData (by MichaelVanDam) for example. (forgot what else was new)
* Jochen Kalmbach's new UserFileManagement and UserRegistration didn't went upstream. 
  (personal uploads, ...)

1.3.3 early 2002, Jeff strikes back, with the help of Carsten Klapp:

* major feature enhancements:
* Cache all output and use a clever page cache. Get rid of plugin-head.
* new PageType class. Formatter and Search engine rewrite.
* Validator
* broke several older plugins: InterWikiSearch, WikiAdminSelect. broke image buttons
* Carsten Klapp's beloved MACOSX theme, button factory and CSS wizardry in general.
* XHTML dumps, WikiBlog as page type.
* PluginManager and several more plugins.

1.3.2 early 2002, Reini Urban strikes:

* Start of external authorisation in the config, but not in code.
* Store Preferences in the users PersonalPage (Jeff)
* Sessions in DB, pear DB update
* concept of Subpages, UnfoldSubpages, SiteMap, AllPages, AllUsers, ...
* PageList (Jeff and Reini)
* Several new plugins: RedirectTo, plugin-head architecture. 
  Normalize template names. WikiAdminSelect architecture: WikiAdminRemove
* VisualWiki, TexToPng, text2png + several cached plugins (by Johannes Große)
* PhpWeather (?), PrevNext, image buttons, 
* IncludePage (Joe Edelman), FrameInclude (Reini), Transclude (Jeff)
* Calendar (contributed by ?), CalendarList, WikiBlog, ...

.... a small hole here .... (three years no detailed HISTORY. see the outline above)

Jeffs Hacks.

* New database API.  See =lib/WikiDB.php= and =lib/WikiDB/backend.php=
  for the bulk of the documentation on this.  The new database can
  save multiple archived versions of each page.  A mechanism for
  purging archived revisions is now in place as well.  See the
  $~ExpireParams setting in =index.php=, and =lib/~ArchiveCleaner.php=
  for details.  At this point, the DBA, MySQL and Postgres backends
  are functional.  The DBA backend could use some performance
  optimization.  The whole API is still subject to some change as I
  figure out a clean way to provide for a variety of (not all forseen)
  methods of indexing and searching the wiki.

* New WikiPlugin architecture.

* New template engine.  This needs to be documented further, but, for
  now, see =lib/Template.php=.  On second thought, don't
  (=lib/Template.php= desperately needs refactoring, still.)  The
  basic advance is that PHP4's =ob_*()= functions can be used to
  capture output from code that is run through =eval().  This allows
  the templates to be PHP code...

* Edit preview button on the edit page.  Now you can see what your
  edits look like before committing them.

* Reworked the style-sheets.  I still need to clean this up some more.
  I would appreciate comments and bug reports on it.  So far I've only
  tested the new style sheets with Netscape 4.77 and Mozilla 0.9.3
  (both running under Linux.)

* Expanded syntax for text search, Searches like "wiki or web -page"
  (or "(wiki or web) and not page") will now do more-or-less what they
  look like they'll do.

* Security Issues: PhpWiki will now work with PHP's =register_globals=
  set to off.

PhpWiki 1.3.x development branch.

* Pagenames in =PATH_INFO=.

* File uploads: see PhpWikiAdministration.

* UserPreferences.

* Ugly [MagicPhpWikiURLs] for administrative links. 

PhpWiki 1.2 is a huge advance over version 1.0:

* Database support for MySQL, Postgresql, mSQL, flat file and the new
  dba_ library in PHP4 is included.

* Internationalization: support for different languages, down to the
  source level, is included. German, Spanish, Swedish and Dutch are
  currently shipped with PhpWiki. An architecture is in place to
  easily add more languages.

* New linking schemes using square brackets in addition to the old
  style ~BumpyText.

* Administration features include page locking, dumping the Wiki to a
  zip file, and deleting pages.

* A MostPopular page showing the most frequently hit pages.

* Full HTML compliance.

* Links at the bottom of pages describing relationships like incoming
  links from other pages and their hits, outgoing and their hits, and
  the most popular nearby pages.

* Color page diffs between the current and previous version.

* An info page to view page metadata.

* Far more customization capability for the admin.

* A templating system to separate the page HTML from the PHP code.

* New markup constructs for =<B>=, =<I>=, =<DD>=, =<BR>= and more.

* Tabless markup to supercede the older markup (both still supported).


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PhpWiki 1.1.9 includes Spanish language pages, a full implementation
for Postgresql, numerous bug fixes and more. See the =HISTORY= file
for more info: http://phpwiki.sourceforge.net/phpwiki/HISTORY

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PhpWiki 1.1.6 is a major revision of PhpWiki. The ability to have
themes (via an easy-to-edit template system) has been added; the
schema for MySQL has been completely overhauled, breaking the page
details into columns (for efficiency we agreed not to put references
in a separate table, so it's not completely normalized. "Don't let the
best be the enemy of the good.")

Postgresql support has been added and the markup language is evolving, now allowing

!!!<h2>
!!<h3>
!<h4>

tags and __a new way to make text bold__, and of course the
[new linking scheme].

There is a new feature on all pages called ''more info'' that gives
you a low level detailed view of a page, which is probably more useful
for debugging than anything.

As we move towards a 1.2 release we will be adding logging, top ten
most active pages and other new features with the new database schema
(and yes, these features will make it into the DBM version too). I
also want to add mSQL support and test it under Zend, the new PHP4.

Below are the release notes for version 1.03, the last release of the
1.0 PhpWiki series. --Steve Wainstead, mailto:swain@panix.com

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PhpWiki was written because I am so interested in WikiWikiWeb~s, and I
haven't used PHP since version 2.0. I wanted to see how it had
advanced.

Version 1.0 is a near-perfect clone of the Portland Pattern
Repository, http://c2.com/cgi-bin/wiki?WikiWikiWeb. In truth, I was
using the Wiki script you can download from there as a model; that
Wiki lacks a number of features the PPR has, like EditCopy. So in
truth PhpWiki is a kind of hybrid of the PPR and the generic Wiki you
can get from there (which is written in Perl).

The one caveat of PhpWiki is the allowance of HTML if the line is
preceded by a bar (or pipe, which is how I usually say it). (That's a
'=|='). It was very simple to add, and the idea came from a posting
somewhere on the PPR about how AT&T had an internal Wiki clone and
used the same technique. The ability to embed HTML is disabled by
default for security reasons.

Version 1.01 includes a patch that fixes a small error with rendering
<hr> lines. Thanks to Gerry Barksdale.

See the =HISTORY= file for a rundown on the whole development process
if that sort of thing really interests you :-)

--SteveWainstead

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