Mailing List Archive: Homepage Integration

Homepage Integration

Nov 2, 2004, 5:43 AM

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Hi,

I would like to integrate a WIKI in our Intranetsite but I could not find any documentation on it.

Is it possible to
a) Use a different user database (there is already a PHPBB forum on our site and it would be great if the users do not have to login twice)

b) Integrate the whole WIKI in our site. I've already integrated the PHPBB forum, there's a nice article on their website. It's easy to replace the templates (overall_header and overall_footer) and just add the right code to page_header/footer.php. Is this possible in a similar way with WikiMedia or do I have to "hack" the source myself.

I searched the Web and the FAQ but I could not find an answer to my question and I can't believe that I'm the only guy with the problem.

Thanks in advance

Markus
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Re: Homepage Integration [ In reply to ]

t.rother at netzwissen

Nov 2, 2004, 6:32 AM

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Hi Markus,
similar questions have been asked numerous times ;-). As far as I know
(please corrwect me, Brion), there is no documentation on this yet. So,
a "real hack" is needed for this task...

I would also be very interested in a solution, as I need to integrate
mediawiki into an Intranet where we will have LDAP authentication...

Bye. Thommie

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Re: Homepage Integration [ In reply to ]

mogmios at mlug

Nov 2, 2004, 10:15 AM

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Actually I was thinking about both of those things yesterday. Doesn't it
seem that it'd be useful to have a standard API in PHP for doing both of
these tasks? Something like session handling where there is a standard
set of built-in functions that can provide the interface but where the
built-in functions can be replaced by those of your choice. So your
program would only need to know the standard API and then you could
implement it anyway you wanted. For user logons especially that'd be
pretty easy to do I think.

>I would like to integrate a WIKI in our Intranetsite but I could not find any documentation on it.
>
>Is it possible to
>a) Use a different user database (there is already a PHPBB forum on our site and it would be great if the users do not have to login twice)
>
>b) Integrate the whole WIKI in our site. I've already integrated the PHPBB forum, there's a nice article on their website. It's easy to replace the templates (overall_header and overall_footer) and just add the right code to page_header/footer.php. Is this possible in a similar way with WikiMedia or do I have to "hack" the source myself.
>
>I searched the Web and the FAQ but I could not find an answer to my question and I can't believe that I'm the only guy with the problem.
>
>

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Re: Homepage Integration [ In reply to ]

dwight at herr-der-ringe-film

Nov 2, 2004, 11:37 AM

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We have integrated the wiki user with ubb.threads. Of course, it is
rather a hack than a proper solution. One of the major changes we did,
were abstracting from the wiki-user-tables. I have proposed this at the
mediawiki meta-pages. Unfortunately, the SQL-Statements are spread
throughout the scripts, so we had to touch a lot of files.
The main functional changes were done in User.php:
- User authorisation and data storage mapping to configurable tables and
fields
- Mapping of ban checks to the BB system
- Disabling mediawiki's user and ban management
- Rewritten session handling to take the BB's session and cookie system

Doing so, should closely integrate with your website, too. But I assume,
you will have to do this on your own.

Cheers,
Dwight

>> I would like to integrate a WIKI in our Intranetsite but I could not
>> find any documentation on it.
>>
>> Is it possible to
>> a) Use a different user database (there is already a PHPBB forum on
>> our site and it would be great if the users do not have to login twice)
>>
>> b) Integrate the whole WIKI in our site. I've already integrated the
>> PHPBB forum, there's a nice article on their website. It's easy to
>> replace the templates (overall_header and overall_footer) and just add
>> the right code to page_header/footer.php. Is this possible in a
>> similar way with WikiMedia or do I have to "hack" the source myself.

Re: Homepage Integration [ In reply to ]

astronouth7303 at gmail

Nov 2, 2004, 1:21 PM

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Hack-o-rama!

I've thought about this, too. Maybe a bunch of us PHP gurus (or not)
should branch MediaWiki and make it more hackable in this maner.

On Tue, 02 Nov 2004 12:43:41 GMT, Markus Bauer <mc_mc_mc@lycos.de> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I would like to integrate a WIKI in our Intranetsite but I could not find any documentation on it.
>
> Is it possible to
> a) Use a different user database (there is already a PHPBB forum on our site and it would be great if the users do not have to login twice)
>
> b) Integrate the whole WIKI in our site. I've already integrated the PHPBB forum, there's a nice article on their website. It's easy to replace the templates (overall_header and overall_footer) and just add the right code to page_header/footer.php. Is this possible in a similar way with WikiMedia or do I have to "hack" the source myself.
>
> I searched the Web and the FAQ but I could not find an answer to my question and I can't believe that I'm the only guy with the problem.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Markus
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Re: Homepage Integration [ In reply to ]

mogmios at mlug

Nov 2, 2004, 1:40 PM

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>Hack-o-rama!
>
>I've thought about this, too. Maybe a bunch of us PHP gurus (or not)
>should branch MediaWiki and make it more hackable in this maner.
>
>
Develop a generic interface for making these things easy to hack and
then port MediaWiki to them. Then maybe attack a couple other popular
PHP-based apps and port them to the interface too. That'd really be
great. IMO this would definately save a lot of us a lot of effort
reinventing the wheel so frequently.

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Re: Homepage Integration [ In reply to ]

thezeropoint at gmail

Nov 3, 2004, 10:10 AM

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On Tue, 02 Nov 2004 12:40:40 -0800, Michael <mogmios@mlug.missouri.edu> wrote:

>IMO this would definately save a lot of us a lot of effort
> reinventing the wheel so frequently.

It seems this is definitely a problem ... in the short time that I
have been on this list, several questions asking about the same hacks
have been presented. At least the documentation could be made a bit
more comprehensive, if not a full-fledged project to create an
interface for these modifications. I'd volunteer but I'm hardly
qualified :)

-Taneem Talukdar