On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 10:22:35AM +0300, Ciprian Popovici wrote: > I'm currently researching PHP-based wiki's out there to find the most > suitable one. Proposals and accounts of personal experiences are welcome. > So far I have my heart set on one of the following: > > - PHPWiki: http://phpwiki.sourceforge.net/phpwiki/ > > - PMWiki: http://www.pmwiki.org/ > > - Wikki Tikki Tavi: http://tavi.sourceforge.net/
Looking briefly at them all, I like Wikki Tikki Tavi. The strict XHTML conformance and CSS for layout is the big plus for me. I really don't like bad, auto-generated code. Atleast this one seems tolerable. :) The interface looks functional, but simple. I'm sure plugging in a custom CSS stylesheet will spice things up, nicely. > 1. Is this a good idea? I think so, but perhaps I'm missing something. I'm all for it. The Blackbox website hasn't been updated for nearly two years now, it seems. > 2. Would it be better to store the pages as flat files or in MySQL? > I believe some if not all of the above wikis allow you to do either. MySQL. Database performance scales better than flat file implementations, as far as I know. Wikki Tikki Tavi seems to only support a MySQL backend anyway. > 3. Should be base all the site in wiki or make the wiki a separate > section? Personally I think we should use the wiki's side benefit of > serving as a content management system and build the entire site with > it. Plus, we don't have much "static" content that would make for a > big site we don't want altered. Ultimately, I think the wiki allows > to apply restrictions to certain sections. Whole site. The more people contributing, less work for the few. :) > 4. If you have more experience with wikis: how complicated is it to > prevent people from spamming it? Not quite sure what you mean by spamming, but Wikki Tikki Tavi seems to have an "edit-rate limiting scheme". That should help? You can block hosts (not very effective if you ask me). And also lock pages. There is no user-authentication on the Wiki though, except for an admin area. This Wiki puts faith into its viewers, I guess. Steven -- .. .. .. Steven Kah Hien Wong (Glutinous) .. .. .. .. .. : E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Mobile: +61 (0) 413 332 005 : ICQ: 3054 4062 : WWW: http://zensaki.com/steven/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] List archives: http://asgardsrealm.net/lurker/splash/index.html Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
