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Php Wiki 1.2.7 backport cvs release-1_2-branch enhancements never
released with 1.2.4-1.2.6:
- 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
- dbalib: dba default detection for dba/dbm and take best handler, fix timeout logic, improve error diagnostics: print errors after the first failing attempts
Php Wiki 1.2.6 flatfile fixes and enhancement:
- fixed TitleSearch and Backlinks for flatfile.
- enable Most Popular (hitcount storage) for flatfile
Php Wiki 1.2.5 supports now 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 Front Page.
Php Wiki 1.2.4 improves possible deadlocks in DBA,
- and fixes problems with DBA open failures.
Php Wiki 1.2.3 just adds the RELATEDPAGES footer support to dba,
- adds remove to dba,
- and fixes one minor aesthetic error on info w/o "Show the page source"
Php Wiki 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 Php Wiki. 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 Most Popular 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).
Php Wiki 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
Php Wiki 1.1.6 is a major revision of Php Wiki. 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
<h1>
<h2>
<h3>
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 Php Wiki
series. --Steve Wainstead, mailto:swain@panix.com
Php Wiki was written because I am so interested in WikiWikiWebs, 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 Edit Copy?. So in truth Php Wiki 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 Php Wiki 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 :-)