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Php Wiki
A WikiWikiWeb is a web site where anyone can
edit the pages through an HTML form. Linking
is done automatically on the server side; all
pages are stored in a database.
This may sound rather simplistic, but a Wiki is a
very unique way to collaborate on the Web. I,
Steve Wainstead, set up a few while working at
the New York Times on the Web, and the
technical staff really took to them in a big way.
They wrote 500 pages in just a few months
(all to document the internal systems).
The addictive quality of a Wiki is that making
pages is as simple as making a link to them.
If they don't yet exist, the page link will be
followed by a hyperlinked question mark; follow
that link and you can define the new page.
With this setup, you can update and create pages
from anywhere there is a web browser handy.
How To Use Wiki
"Wiki wiki" means
"quick" in Hawai'ian.
All you really need to know
is:
- To edit any page click on the Edit Text link at
the bottom of the page. You should do that right
now, and read the source code of this page.
It will make more sense.
- You get italics by surrounding words with two
single quotes on either side like this.
- You get bold text
by using two underscores
on either side.
- And,
bold italics by
using both.
- You get bullets by using an asterisk * at the
start of the line
- To have plain monospaced font, indent with a space
Text Formatting
Rules
Paragraphs
- Don't indent paragraphs
- Words wrap and fill as needed
- Use blank lines as separators
- Four or more minus signs make a horizontal rule
- %%% makes a linebreak (in headings and lists too)
Lists
- asterisk for first level
- asterisk-asterisk for second level, etc.
- Use * for bullet lists, # for numbered lists
(mix at will)
- semicolon-term-colon-definition for definition lists
- term here
- definition here, as in the
<DL><DT><DD> list
- One line for each item
- Other leading whitespace signals preformatted
text, changes font.
Headings
- '!' at the start of a line makes a small heading
- '!!' at the start of a line makes a medium heading
- '!!!' at the start of a line makes a large heading
Fonts
- Indent with one or more spaces to use a
monospace font:
This is in monospace
This is not
Indented
Paragraphs
- semicolon-colon - works like <BLOCKQUOTE>
- this is an indented block of text
Emphasis
- Use doubled single-quotes ('') for emphasis
(usually italics)
- Use doubled underscores (__) for strong
emphasis (usually bold)
- Mix them at will:
bold italics
- Emphasis can
be used multiple times within
a line, but cannot cross line
boundaries:
''this will not work''
References
- Hyperlinks to other pages within the Wiki are
made by placing the page name in square
brackets
- Hyperlinks to external pages are done like this:
http://www.wcsb.org/
- You can name the links by providing a name,
a bar (|) and then the hyperlink or pagename:
PhpWiki home page -
the
front page
- You can suppress linking to old-style references
and URIs by preceding the word with a '!', e.g.
NotLinkedAsWikiName, http://not.linked.to/
- [1], [2], [3], [4] refer to remote references.
Click
EditLinks on the edit form to enter URLs.
These differ from the newer linking scheme;
references are unique to a page.
- Also, the old way of linking URL's is still
supported: precede URLs with "http:", "ftp:"
or "mailto:" to create links automatically as
in: http://c2.com/
- URLs ending with .png, .gif, or .jpg are inlined if
in square brackets, by themselves:
HTML Mark-Up
Language
- Don't bother
- < and > are themselves
- The & characters will not work
- If you really must use HTML, your system
administrator can enable this feature.
Start each line with a bar (|). Note that this
feature is disabled by default.
Homepage:
http://phpwiki.sourceforge.net/
PhpWiki support forum
(We are not associated with the support forum)
New Installation (v. 1.2.10)
Disk space required: 1.35 MB
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