BeckWiki News:
Tuesday, December 28, 2004
Project stalled. I am moving my focus to another project for now.
Thursday, November 25, 2004
BeckWiki 0.00 has been released!
Click here to download it.
Wednesday, November 24, 2004
BeckWiki is now usable enough for me to post a prevue! I just have to write some basic documentation and update the install script an package it all up. I should post the prevue later tonight or tomorrow morning.
Tuesday, November 23, 2004
I am about 90% ready to switch thebeck.com to my BeckWiki system. All I need to do is make posting pages password protected and a couple other minor tweaks.
The cool thing about BeckWiki is you can make your web site completely html if you want, or let the BeckWiki engine do all the heavy lifting and just sprinkle html here and there. What does this mean? A site powered by BeckWiki can look however you want it to look. You have COMPLETE control over every character output by BeckWiki. You can use CSS JavaScript or anything else you want.
As I mentioned, I need to make editing password protected. I need to do this for a couple reasons. The first is BeckWiki does not yet save old pages to history, so anyone can come along and delete stuff and there is no way to fix it unless someone has a copy saved on their computer. The second reason is html tags are completely un-restricted at the moment. I expect to move thebeck.com to beckWiki tonight or tomarrow! I will then upload a preview release shortly after. BeckWiki is just around the corner!
Right now the engine (index.php) stands at about 7KB. After install it will just be that and the data files for your web pages.
Monday, 2004-11-22
I started playing with PHP again on Saturday and by late Sunday night I had a working basic wiki system. All it does now is translate wiki text files and displays them. It supports two tags, wiki links and edit so you can edit and save pages and also navigate between them. So BeckWiki is closer than ever!
I think instead of having BeckWiki add all kinds of special links to control editing, showing history, ect. I will just implement special wiki tags for these purposes and the user can decide what tools they want shown by adding these tags to the footer and or header wiki files.
Also since we already are doing header and footer wiki files, and they can display HTML, there is really no need for HTML templates. This way the used can edit the HTML template at the same time they are editing the header and footer wiki files right on the wiki edit page! No need to ftp in new HTML templates when you want to change the look and feel of your web site!.
Friday, 2004-02-13 03:15
I have some new ideas about my wiki engine. Their will be a few special wiki pages named "home", "header", and "footer". When the wiki is first accessed it will automatically load "home". The wiki named "header" will be added to the very top of every wiki page. This is useful for adding site logos, and other information you want at the top of every page. The page "footer" is added to the bottom of every wiki page. You can use normal wiki tags in the header and footers, in fact they are normal wiki pages and can be found in the wiki index.
BeckWiki will add a special line at the very bottom of every page. This line will include special links to access BeckWiki services and the "Powered by BeckWiki" tag. The special links will include "Edit This Page", "Page History", and "Wiki Index". "Edit This Page" will open the wiki editor. "Page History" will show a list of links to every version of that page that hasn't been deleted since it was created. Pages can only be deleted by a web site administrator. "Page History" will also include links for each page listed in the history, one to view the page and one to restore the page. I was going to make a special "Recent Changes" page to list all recently edited paged but this function can easily be included in the "Wiki Index" page. "Wiki Index" will be a list of every wiki page created. The list will also include the page size, the date/time the page was created, the date/time it was last edited and maybe how many times it has been accessed and edited. Their might also be a "Configure" page too, but this might be too complex for my minimalist approach, defiantly not in the first release.
Sunday, 2004-02-01 22:34
First I am going to implement the wiki to html translator.