This month it's time to look at another of those PHP applications I find useful on a daily basis. I like to use "wikis" for documentation for many of the projects I work on. [...] In this article we will look at PhpWiki, and we'll show you how to configure and use it with your own projects!

Ian includes a little history of the application along with the installation and configuration instructions to get you started. There's even a section there at the end talking about templates, wiki styles and links to other resources to get you up to speed.

This month it's time to look at another of those PHP applications I find useful on a daily basis. I like to use "wikis" for documentation for many of the projects I work on. Most of you are probably familiar with the term wiki, coming from the Hawaiian word for quick (wikiwiki). There are quite a few PHP-based wiki tools out there, including mediawiki (which Wikipedia uses), PmWiki and DokuWiki. In this article we will look at PhpWiki, and we'll show you how to configure and use it with your own projects!

He walks through a (brief) introduction to the application before jumping right into the installation and configuration process - complete with a simple primer on how to use the formatting and how to change the layout that the wiki software uses.

I like to use "wikis" for documentation for many of the projects I work on. Most of you are probably familiar with the term wiki, coming from the Hawaiian word for quick (wikiwiki). There are quite a few PHP-based wiki tools out there, including mediawiki (which Wikipedia uses), PmWiki and DokuWiki. In this article we will look at PhpWiki, and we'll show you how to configure and use it with your own projects!

They briefly cover the history behind wikis before moving straight into the installation/configuration of the package. Thankfully, wikis have been made to be pretty straightforward - simple special formatting characters are used to style the content in all of the typical HTML elements. They don't provide a complete guide to this formatting, but there are plenty of resources around that talk about that.

They move on to the next logic step every site owner wants - how to customize the look to what you want (or to fit into the rest of your site). There are a few other configuration notes that they make and links to other resources including the software's homepage and documentation.]]> Fri, 10 Mar 2006 07:30:04 -0600