Once again I'm looking at existing content on the website and keep hitting the problem of the disjointed search between areas of the website. I can understand why it is so problematic, simply because the site IS just a set of unrelated sub-domains, and I'm not sure that it is possible to provide a solution, but even trying to use google targeting the whole site makes a search for all the material relating to a particular aspect of 'PHPNext' difficult, and one ends up having to search 'bugs' independently of the manual, wiki, and other areas such as these lists.
One of the main reasons I'm using PHP is to manage the sort of data that the php website contains, and I've always worked from a database containing all of the content and the display side being a separate area of development, so I can search all the raw content from the one query ... and looking for a single language ... I can totally understand the use of 'source code management' to manage the existing setup as it does at least allow the mirroring and other elements of the system, but I can't help feeling that a move to a central repository of page content would allow further improvements and eliminate some of the resulting problems. Technically it's just a data mine which can track the uploads in each separate area, but it is hampered by the use of completely different tools in areas which are essentially doing exactly the same job. Any good CMS system just uses a single editor tool for editing page content, be it a 'wiki' page, comment, bug submission, event post, list post, and the help system and manual is simply an area of the main wiki. Is there any mileage in looking at starting a central repository that can mine each of the existing isolated areas of material and pull them together in a consistent whole, if only to provide an integrated search function? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk -- PHP Webmaster List Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
