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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 User Preferences 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 Rich Table? 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 Pretty Wiki? 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 Wiki Admin Remove? arguments passed from Wiki Admin Select?, Wiki Admin Remove? deleted too many args if passed from Wiki Admin Select?
  • session transportation improved, no db objects stored
  • Page Group? support for links? and subpages
  • Http Client? fixes for older php's
  • Rss Feed? 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.
  • Create Toc? parses now headers with links and formatting optionally, if TOC_FULL_SYNTAX is defined
  • Page Change Notification?: 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 Release Notes
  • Page Change Notification? changed subject to "Wiki Name? Page change %s", update your filters accordingly
  • action=upgrade now linked in Php Wiki Administration, db: fix page.id auto_increment and ADD session.sess_ip
  • some internal Inline Parser? 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
  • Popular Nearby? plugin: same as the classic most popular footer
  • formatted single-line plugins supported
  • Related Changes plugin: only those which are links at the current page
  • new Google Link 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

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 User Preferences 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)
  • Wiki Admin Remove? deleted too many if args passed from Wiki Admin Select?
  • Page Group? support for links? and subpages
  • disabled default dba sessions, broken!
  • Http Client? fixes for older php's
  • Rss Feed? 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/Up Load.php
  • syntax errors in lib/plugin/Wiki Admin Remove?.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 Db Pass User?
  • added Go To? plugin, Rate It 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 Wiki User New? class (started by Carsten Klapp),
  • new Preferences (optionally from DB, no cookies anymore)
  • improved DB_Session (added ADODB + dba support, Who Is Online support)
  • enabled Wiki Group? (Joby Walker and Reini Urban)
  • new individual Page Permissions? (enabled, but not yet enforced)
  • new Wiki Admin Rename?, Wiki Admin Search Replace?, Wiki Admin Set Acl?
  • several other new plugins: Wiki Poll?, Who Is Online, Create Toc? (experimental), Add Comment?, _Wiki Translation? and Translate Text, No Cache?, Up Load (by Nathan Gass?, qubit and Reini Urban), Include Site Map? (by cuthbertcat and Reini Urban), Rich Table? (by Sameer D. Sahasrabuddhe), Create Page? and Rate It (by Dan Frankowski), Rss Feed? (by Arnaud Fontaine)
  • added Inter Wiki image button support
  • added Japanese language support (by Tadashi Jokagi)
  • added sqlite support (thanks to Matthew Palmer)
  • added theme and plugin-specific Page List? column types and theme-specific User Preferences
  • added Email Verification? and Page Change Notification? (experimental)
  • added new sess_ip column (DB_Session) for ip-based robot throttling
  • Pear DB update, minor performance improvement for PearDB
  • Page List?: 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 Old Style Table? arguments, Photo Album? local fs support
  • preliminary action=upgrade (To import new pgsrc pages only yet. not for DB)
  • preliminary SOAP support
  • added Pdf Output? libraries
  • experimental javascript Search&Replace edit buttons
  • experimental old-browser compatibility code.
  • fixed Wiki Admin Select?, Wiki Admin Remove?
  • 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 Block Parser? problem with "0" as text
  • fixed Unfold Subpages? 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.
  • Edit Meta Data? (by Michael Van Dam?) for example. (forgot what else was new)
  • Jochen Kalmbach's new User File Management? and User Registration? 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 Page Type? class. Formatter and Search engine rewrite.
  • Validator
  • broke several older plugins: Inter Wiki Search, Wiki Admin Select?. broke image buttons
  • Carsten Klapp's beloved MACOSX theme, button factory and CSS wizardry in general.
  • XHTML dumps, Wiki Blog? as page type.
  • Plugin Manager 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 Personal Page? (Jeff)
  • Sessions in DB, pear DB update
  • concept of Subpages, Unfold Subpages?, Site Map?, All Pages, All Users, ...
  • Page List? (Jeff and Reini)
  • Several new plugins: Redirect To?, plugin-head architecture. Normalize template names. Wiki Admin Select? architecture: Wiki Admin Remove?
  • Visual Wiki?, Tex To Png?, text2png + several cached plugins (by Johannes Große)
  • Php Weather? (?), Prev Next?, image buttons,
  • Include Page? (Joe Edelman), Frame Include? (Reini), Transclude (Jeff)
  • Calendar (contributed by ?), Calendar List?, Wiki Blog?, ...

.... 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 Wiki Plugin 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: Php Wiki will now work with PHP's register_globals set to off.

Php Wiki 1.3.x development branch.

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>,
    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

<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 Php Wiki series. --Steve Wainstead, swain@panix.com

Php Wiki was written because I am so interested in Wiki Wiki Webs, 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 :-)

--Steve Wainstead

Php Wiki Documentation

Last edited on June 28, 2004 9:25 pm
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