[mythtv] Development task list:

Ed W lists at wildgooses.com
Wed Oct 5 21:46:20 UTC 2005


Kevin Kuphal wrote:

> Isaac Richards wrote:
>
>> I just want something that is:
>> - secure.
>> - Manages news, downloads, weblinks _easily_.
>>
>> I just don't have tons of time to update the website, and the current 
>> stuff I have to jump through a bunch of hoops to update.  I basically 
>> had to gut out the administration files from phpnuke for security 
>> reasons, so whenever I want to update things, I have to log in and 
>> restore things, make my changes, then re-secure the website.  It 
>> bites, really.
>>
>> I think the mythtv.info wiki move to mythtv.org should be finished 
>> sometime this year.  Maybe.  =)
>>  
>>
> Have you thought about just making the whole thing a wiki?  Mediawiki 
> can lock pages to administrators and it is easy enough to do what 
> you're looking for with the wiki software.  I think most CMS are 
> cumbersome but if you're going to have the wiki anyways.


I personally like mediawiki, but it's really intended for collaborative 
writing sites like encyclopedias and documentation sites.  I don't think 
it's quite so good where you just want some fixed but easy to edit 
site.  I use if for a little site here:
http://www.duffroomcorrection.com

However, for static websites (ie not documentation sites, but real 
websites) I prefer pmwiki because it's much more flexible for creating 
websites and it's less about being a wiki.  The features I like are that 
you can basically just create your own custom shorthand notation for 
common HTML idioms and then you are pretty much just writing an HTML 
page after that, but without the pain of writing HTML.  err.... Badly 
explained, but the point is that it behaves more like a web creation 
tool than a wiki

Say you need to chuck on some HTML forms on a page.  Just quickly sketch 
out the basic syntax in the config file and choose a shorthand notation 
and now you can quickly run up a page using your shorthand.  I used it 
to knock together a shopping cart page in just a few mins - very neat.

I am using pmwiki for this site here:
http://www.mailasail.com

Installation is a piece of cake you basically just untar into a 
webserver dir and off you go.  It uses text files for the db instead of 
some real db.

Worth a look anyway if you don't need all the CMS type junk and just 
want something that you can paste: text, tables and links into quite 
easily.  Creating a new theme is quite straightforward as well.  Also 
try some of the extensions for example the wikidraw extension to be able 
to easily pop in diagrams onto a web page.
http://www.pmwiki.org

Ed W


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