Wiki Patches

This website is driven by PhpWiki. While being a pretty sophisticated piece of software, it requires some patching before it looks like what you're seeing now. This list of modifications is kept as reference, as well for us (if we have to set it up again) as for you (if you fancy copying our looks).

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• created /images drawer containing all "Pro-POS related" imagery.
• created /favicon.ico.
• patched schemas/mysql.sql: all table names from * to phpwiki_*.

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index.php

• set DEBUG to '0'
• set WIKI_NAME to 'Pro-POS'
• set ENABLE_REVERSE_DNS to 'false'

passencrypt.php has a bug that results in random passwords being generated even if you enter your own password. This is patched easily:

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• set ADMIN, and ADMIN_PASSWD (encrypted with patched passencrypt.php)
• uncomment ENCRYPTED_PASSWD
• set CACHE_CONTROL to 'STRICT'
• set server settings (dbtype -> SQL, dsn -> mysql://USER:PASSWORD@localhost/DATABASE, prefix -> phpwiki_).
• uncomment DisabledActions.

The next one allows JPEGs to be named either .jpg or .jpeg.

$InlineImages = "png|gif|jpg|jpeg"

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themes/default/templates/editpage.tmpl

PhpWiki offers two different markup schemes, "old" and "new" markup. While this is nice compatibility-wise, it's pretty confusing if you set up a new Wiki. The following patches disable "old markup" altogether:

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<    <?=$OLD_MARKUP_CB?>  <?=_("Use old markup")?>
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<      document.getElementById('oldMarkup').style.display="none";
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<      document.getElementById('oldMarkup').style.display="block";
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< <div id="oldMarkup" class="wiki-edithelp">
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<
< <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript">
< <!--
< if (document.getElementById) {
<   showOldMarkupRules(document.getElementById('useOldMarkup').checked);
< }
< // -->
< </script>

• the next patch if you want to reorganize the Wiki docs (we did so in the last version, but didn't in this one):

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< <p><?= fmt("See %s tips for editing.", WikiLink(_("GoodStyle"))) ?></p>
< <?plugin IncludePage page=_("TextFormattingRules") section=_("Synopsis") quiet=1?>
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> <?plugin IncludePage page=_("WikiWikiWeb") section=_("Basic Markup") quiet=1?>

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themes/default/templates/login.tmpl

The login dialog shows an option "Create Homepage", which seems to be disabled. It's confusing, hence we removed it.

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< <?php
<   $dbi = request->getDbh();
<   $checked = (!empty($userid) and $dbi->isWikiPage($userid)) ? '' : 'checked="checked"';
< ?>
< <tr>
<   <td align="right"><?= _("Create Homepage:") ?></td>
<   <td><input type="checkbox" name="auth[homepage]" <?=$checked?> /></td>
< </tr>

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themes/default/templates/top.tmpl

The default layout shows the logo above the navigation bar. We felt it wastes vertical space, so we merged logo and navbar with the next two patches.

• deleted the logo link / image including the surrounding <div>. (Copy it somewhere, you need it for next chapter.)

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themes/default/templates/navbar.tmpl

• created a two-column table, with the left <td> containing the original navbar, and the right <td> the logo link / image from top.tmpl. (This is where you need the text copied in last chapter.)

We found that, quite often, we clicked on "RecentChanges" only to click through to RecentEdits; hence, we added a link to RecentEdits into the navbar.

• right below "RecentChanges", just copy the line, add a seperator (the "s" thing from next line) and rename Changes -> Edits.

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Theme tweaking

We wanted only one theme; "MacOS" looked good, especially the background, but was inconsistent in the button support (some buttons showed up in system default layout), so we added the MacOS background to "default".

• added bgpaper8.png from the MacOSX theme to themes/default/images.
• patched phpwiki.css' and phpwiki-modern.css' "body" to 'background: #fafafa url("images/bgpaper8.png");'

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Cleanup

• removed everything from themes/ except themes/default (but check next chapter first).
• removed everything from locales/.
• removed ChangeLog, INSTALL, LICENSE, README, UPGRADING

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XML Doctype

MartinBaute occasionally uses a Handheld PC to access the website; the Internet Explorer 4.01 installed in the ROM of these machines choked on the XML doctype declaration, so it was removed from all files (search for "xhtml1-").