1 Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 17:28:55 -0500
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14 * New database API. See =lib/WikiDB.php= and =lib/WikiDB/backend.php=
15 for the bulk of the documentation on this. The new database can
16 save multiple archived versions of each page. A mechanism for
17 purging archived revisions is now in place as well. See the
18 $~ExpireParams setting in =index.php=, and =lib/~ArchiveCleaner.php=
19 for details. At this point, the DBA, MySQL and Postgres backends
20 are functional. The DBA backend could use some performance
21 optimization. The whole API is still subject to some change as I
22 figure out a clean way to provide for a variety of (not all forseen)
23 methods of indexing and searching the wiki.
25 * New WikiPlugin architecture.
27 * New template engine. This needs to be documented further, but, for
28 now, see =lib/Template.php=. On second thought, don't
29 (=lib/Template.php= desperately needs refactoring, still.) The
30 basic advance is that PHP4's =ob_*()= functions can be used to
31 capture output from code that is run through =eval(). This allows
32 the templates to be PHP code...
34 * Edit preview button on the edit page. Now you can see what your
35 edits look like before committing them.
37 * Reworked the style-sheets. I still need to clean this up some more.
38 I would appreciate comments and bug reports on it. So far I've only
39 tested the new style sheets with Netscape 4.77 and Mozilla 0.9.3
40 (both running under Linux.)
42 * Expanded syntax for text search, Searches like "wiki or web -page"
43 (or "(wiki or web) and not page") will now do more-or-less what they
46 * Security Issues: PhpWiki will now work with PHP's =register_globals=
49 PhpWiki 1.3.x development branch.
51 * Pagenames in =PATH_INFO=.
53 * File uploads: see PhpWikiAdministration.
57 * Ugly [MagicPhpWikiURLs] for administrative links.
59 PhpWiki 1.2 is a huge advance over version 1.0:
61 * Database support for MySQL, Postgresql, mSQL, flat file and the new
62 dba_ library in PHP4 is included.
64 * Internationalization: support for different languages, down to the
65 source level, is included. German, Spanish, Swedish and Dutch are
66 currently shipped with PhpWiki. An architecture is in place to
67 easily add more languages.
69 * New linking schemes using square brackets in addition to the old
72 * Administration features include page locking, dumping the Wiki to a
73 zip file, and deleting pages.
75 * A MostPopular page showing the most frequently hit pages.
77 * Full HTML compliance.
79 * Links at the bottom of pages describing relationships like incoming
80 links from other pages and their hits, outgoing and their hits, and
81 the most popular nearby pages.
83 * Color page diffs between the current and previous version.
85 * An info page to view page metadata.
87 * Far more customization capability for the admin.
89 * A templating system to separate the page HTML from the PHP code.
91 * New markup constructs for =<B>=, =<I>=, =<DD>=, =<BR>= and more.
93 * Tabless markup to supercede the older markup (both still supported).
98 PhpWiki 1.1.9 includes Spanish language pages, a full implementation
99 for Postgresql, numerous bug fixes and more. See the =HISTORY= file
100 for more info: http://phpwiki.sourceforge.net/phpwiki/HISTORY
104 PhpWiki 1.1.6 is a major revision of PhpWiki. The ability to have
105 themes (via an easy-to-edit template system) has been added; the
106 schema for MySQL has been completely overhauled, breaking the page
107 details into columns (for efficiency we agreed not to put references
108 in a separate table, so it's not completely normalized. "Don't let the
109 best be the enemy of the good.")
111 Postgresql support has been added and the markup language is evolving, now allowing
117 tags and __a new way to make text bold__, and of course the
118 [new linking scheme].
120 There is a new feature on all pages called ''more info'' that gives
121 you a low level detailed view of a page, which is probably more useful
122 for debugging than anything.
124 As we move towards a 1.2 release we will be adding logging, top ten
125 most active pages and other new features with the new database schema
126 (and yes, these features will make it into the DBM version too). I
127 also want to add mSQL support and test it under Zend, the new PHP4.
129 Below are the release notes for version 1.03, the last release of the
130 1.0 PhpWiki series. --Steve Wainstead, mailto:swain@panix.com
134 PhpWiki was written because I am so interested in WikiWikiWeb~s, and I
135 haven't used PHP since version 2.0. I wanted to see how it had
138 Version 1.0 is a near-perfect clone of the Portland Pattern
139 Repository, http://c2.com/cgi-bin/wiki?WikiWikiWeb. In truth, I was
140 using the Wiki script you can download from there as a model; that
141 Wiki lacks a number of features the PPR has, like EditCopy. So in
142 truth PhpWiki is a kind of hybrid of the PPR and the generic Wiki you
143 can get from there (which is written in Perl).
145 The one caveat of PhpWiki is the allowance of HTML if the line is
146 preceded by a bar (or pipe, which is how I usually say it). (That's a
147 '=|='). It was very simple to add, and the idea came from a posting
148 somewhere on the PPR about how AT&T had an internal Wiki clone and
149 used the same technique. The ability to embed HTML is disabled by
150 default for security reasons.
152 Version 1.01 includes a patch that fixes a small error with rendering
153 <hr> lines. Thanks to Gerry Barksdale.
155 See the =HISTORY= file for a rundown on the whole development process
156 if that sort of thing really interests you :-)