[Tutor] wiki WORDS

[Kirk Bailey]

OK, I thnk I want to code a wiki.
The one I have uses one script for all functions, and is very much into classes and 
object oriented; which I do not yet grasp at all well. Also, it encodes headers and 
footers into the code. IMHO, this is not a Great Good Thing(tm) because it makes it hard 
as heck for one to customize the appearance of the pages, whereas reading in and spewing 
the header and footer of the page would lend itself to convient editing of the wiki's 
appearance.

Also, this thing puts all functions in a single script; complex and confusing. However, 
If I do things in modules, this will simplify somewhat.

One program is a reader. Reads in the header file, requested page, and footer file. 
Second part reads through the result, parsing imbedded markup and builting up a result 
string, then squirting that at stdout.

Another is an editor. It sends a page with a simple textarea form containing the raw 
text of the body of the page. Form output goes to a script that saves that, and returns 
header, that new page, and footer as a result screen.

Now this will take a little while to code up. If anyone wants to stick an ore in the 
water with me, you are hereby invited. Although we COULD discuss it here (and I for one 
would welcome the community's comments and suggestions if this is acceptable), I suggest 
that a better place would be on the wiki already working, or on a list hosted at the 
tinylist site.
http://www.tinylist.org/
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