On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 10:51:33AM -0500, The Editor wrote: > Thanks Richard, I'm with you on this one. Right now it is still easy > to import text--even text with <. You just have to be careful about > malicious code getting dumped in. If we make this switch it should be > both easier and safer.
There's been some comment here about the dokuwiki example. I would agree that doku is a fine example from which one can learn a lot. A second source of good ideas may be cmsmadesimple. Let me explain with a brief history. A few years ago, I originally set up a couple of my sites using dokuwiki as a kind of cms, and I chose it because of its clean code and because of the plain text page storage. I often edited pages directly on the server and the system appeared entirely tolerant of this (though I suppose it would have created difficulties if I had had need to backtrack just after one of my direct edits). I then moved to cmsmadesimple. I chose that over drupal, zope-and-friends, etc., because it was lighter and much simpler to understand and to manage. I found it reasonably easy to transfer everything I had done in dokuwiki to cmsmadesimple, and the subsequent management is simpler. My main reason for thinking of moving on from cmsmadesimple, at least for some uses, is the storage in mysql -- the loss of the simple text pages. In BoltWire, I see the potential for getting most of the strengths of both of the above in an innovative and compact system. Both dokuwiki and cmsmadesimple provide hierachical control of all aspects of the pages, dokuwiki uses a very similar approach to BoltWire, essentially giving precedence to the version of any system variable found closest to the page. It is not necessary to replace the whole file AFAIR, just placing the variables that are to be changed in a config file will change only them and inherit the values for all others from above. For both dokuwiki and cmsmadesimple, I wrote tags for things I like to do often -- and example being a box to insert in text that can contain either an image or a snippet of html and which can be floated either right or left or centred, surrounded by a frame or separated from the adjacent text by a vertical line, and in either case can have a caption if required. This is an item I would definitely wish to recreate for BoltWire (unless it already exists). I quote this only as an example of the kind of flexibility I hope will be available if I decide to use boltwire as a cms. richard
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