PHPDeveloper.org http://www.phpdeveloper.org Up-to-the Minute PHP News, views and community en-us Mon, 20 May 2013 22:20:41 -0500 30 <![CDATA[SitePoint PHP Blog: Brion Vibber on Wikipedia and Mediawiki]]> http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/5427 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/5427 In this new post on the SitePoint PHP Blog, there's a look at the Wikipedia and Mediawiki software in the context of the PHP world.

That wikipedia runs LAMP makes it somewhat of a poster-child and, as you may know, the software used on wikipedia is mediawiki, written in PHP. Given the scale of the technical problem the wikimedia foundation has had to solve, what's been a little frustrating in the past finding detail from those involved on how they do it. Thanks to Brion Vibber we now have more information...

There's mention of Brion's talk presented to Google as well as the more recent Pro:PHP Podcast intervew with him detailing Wikimedia and PHP's place in it.

]]> Tue, 23 May 2006 07:25:26 -0500 <![CDATA[PHPBuilder.com: phpwiki - The Wiki for PHP Developers]]> http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/4968 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/4968 a tutorial that covers the use of one of the PHP applications that the author "finds useful on a daily basis" - phpWiki.

I like to use "wikis" for documentation for many of the projects I work on. Most of you are probably familiar with the term wiki, coming from the Hawaiian word for quick (wikiwiki). There are quite a few PHP-based wiki tools out there, including mediawiki (which Wikipedia uses), PmWiki and DokuWiki. In this article we will look at PhpWiki, and we'll show you how to configure and use it with your own projects!

They briefly cover the history behind wikis before moving straight into the installation/configuration of the package. Thankfully, wikis have been made to be pretty straightforward - simple special formatting characters are used to style the content in all of the typical HTML elements. They don't provide a complete guide to this formatting, but there are plenty of resources around that talk about that.

They move on to the next logic step every site owner wants - how to customize the look to what you want (or to fit into the rest of your site). There are a few other configuration notes that they make and links to other resources including the software's homepage and documentation.]]> Fri, 10 Mar 2006 07:30:04 -0600