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syn9 · Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2003 10:04 pm Post subject: php/sql interractive design doc

check this out

http://syn9.rpgdx.net/viewdesigndoc.php

its a demo of the online design doc for vampira, that way the developers can work on and reference from the design doc in one place.

thought some of you might find this helpfull, if anyone wants the code drop me a line at mariknothing@yahoo.com

akOOma · Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2003 12:41 pm Post subject:

That's a cool idea...
it's like a lil' forum or a guestbook, but only used for writing documentations..
it's not that hard to code that kinda stuff if you know something about PHP and MySQL
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Bjorn · Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2003 12:33 pm Post subject:

I think it's a great little system! It's like a Wiki but much better for a set of well structured pages. The tree and folders thing is nice.

What I'm thinking though... why would you implement something like this using MySQL? With PHP, you could just create a folder tree on the server with text files in it. Using that sheme, it's not limited to text files either, you could make an upload button to use with any file. And, when it's just files, you can also make a link and have the server automatically zip up the entire folder tree and send it to the client for offline use. Be carefull when allowing uploads though!

akOOma · Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2003 7:53 pm Post subject:

Bjorn · Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2003 12:26 pm Post subject:

I wouldn't mind at all. If you're going to implement it though, consider making it GPL so anybody can make improvements to it and you can merge back any improvements others made.

I wouldn't be surprised if such a system already existed though.

Happy · JonA's American snack pack Joined: 03 Aug 2002 Posts: 200

Yeah, it's called CVS. (with a php interface)

Bjorn · Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2003 8:35 pm Post subject:

I'm not surprised. Though I don't think you're completely fair there. Mentioning CVS you could just as well have mentioned "it's called a folder tree and you can access it with your file manager". The nice thing with this sytem was the interface and the model it creates for the user.

syn9 · Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2003 2:07 am Post subject:

actually, ive replicated the doc and now have 1 for each of my projects, plus one for my website, and the website just pulls information off the folders to model the site, that way i never have to touch the code, it actually reminds me a lot of XML

potato · Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2003 4:21 pm Post subject:

reminds me of Sourceforge's CVS trees