Martin Geisler Online

This is a release for those of you who still has to use PHP version 3 — everybody else should use [PHP Weather][] 2.x instead.

This release adds a Greek translation and fixes a couple of minor bugs. You can now adjust the time without hacking the code and you can specify the directory used for flat-file databases. All this can be downloaded as a tar.bz2, tar.gz, or zip file.

I released version 1.7 of [PHP Shell][] today — [PHP Shell][] is a tool I’ve written that allows you to execute commands on a webserver running PHP. This release makes [PHP Shell][] compatible with PHP version 4.2.0 which ships with register_globals turned off per default.

Today I saw the first incident of WikiVandalism here at GimpsterDotCom. Some guy couldn’t find anything better to do than delete the contents from the PHP Tutorial and write ”I’m gay” instead.

This is exactly the kind of thing people have been worried about when I’ve told about how my WikiWikiWeb works. They would ask something along the lines of: But wont someone just come and delete your pages? And I would say: ”Probably, but I have backups and they’ll soon discover that it isn’t that much fun to destroy other peoples work when it’s this easy…”. I still believe this to be true because of the reasons that can be seen here: Wiki:WhyWikiWorks.

I just have to figure out how to delete a single revision of a page instead of deleting everything in one go as I just did with the PHP Tutorial page…

Since I sent a mail to the [PHP Weather][] mailing list mailing list, the have poured in with fixes and patches. The patches have now been put into the [PHP Weather][] CVS repository. If you can, then you should try it out.

The patches deal with PHP 4.2 compatibility and also improve the utility functions found in pw_utilities.php so that they’re easier to use. The index.php file has been rewritten by Ondrej Jombik nepto@pobox.sk. The rewrite required a new method in the database backends, get_country_code($icao), so those had to be updated accordingly.

It seams that the idea behind my WikiWikiWeb works — as seen on the RecentChanges page, a friendly person has fixed one of my typos on the MartinGeisler page. Thanks a lot!

After I fixed the code for the [PHP Weather][] plugin, I figured that I should make a release of the CVS code. It’s been done for at least six months but it’s never been released on SourceForge. Expect a proper 2.0 release in a few days to go with the [PHP Weather][] WikiWikiWeb plugin.