On 1/10/06, Steve Dondley <sdondley@gmail.com> wrote:
oh, wait, we have that already. :p Really, its possible since a long time.
Yes, it's true. I've got a wiki on my a site of mine for many months without ever seeing Bryght's guide. But it certainly isn't polished or very user friendly. There's a bg difference between cobbling together functionality out of sticks and constructing one solid module carefully with bricks and mortar.
Bryght's recipe is great, but we could make this much easier. I think what we need is a wiki bundle, similar to the ecommerce family of modules. * something for markup (wiki.module, marksmarty.module, or a rich text area module like FCKeditor * something for internode link syntax / node creation (like freelinking, could be made much richer) * something for the node itself (like wikipage.module, better perms on story/page/book, or a CCK content type But even that's not enough, with current Drupal. If you're looking to have someone work for pay, have them do something that's actually *needed*, something that doesn't yet exist. If you want true wikis in Drupal, the filter system needs some love. It is impossible (or at least, very difficult) for something like my freelinking.module to have true wiki capabilities with the current implementation of filters. Filtering modules need to know more about what they're working with. One example is having a node know who authored it, and who authored the existing targets, so that multiple users could have seperate wikispace within one Drupal site. Passing the $node to hook_filter would be a step in the right direction, but as I recall that's been debated before, and I'm not about to bring that up again... umm, whoops. Other things we could do that would get us closer to actual wiki functionality: * Having a node know which other nodes are linking to it * Turning freelinking.module into an extendable API (see http://www.eafarris.com/node/959 for my thoughts on this) * Differentiating between existing and non-existing links at creation time, without the performance penalty of walking through every node.title each time * Fuzzy matching of links Some of these things are relatively simple patches to freelinking.module, some of these require more careful thought and discussion. -- e www.eafarris.com