[dokuwiki] Re: Email to Dokuwiki gateway

On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 07:53 +0200, Riny Heijdendael wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am working at a script to give people with limited access to the 
> internet the possibility to join dokuwiki discussions by making an 
> Imap<->dokuwiki gateway.
> 
> I want to do this because dokuwiki is used now for a large network in 
> central east asia, but a lot of organisations there have very bad 
> conditions regarding telecommunication. (bad/no/slow lines). Some of 
> them have to drive 80 km to get to an internet centre!
> 
> The idea is that people can send an email to dokuwiki@xxxxxxxxxx and 
> their comments will be put in the namespace that they provide in the 
> subject line. By this method it is possible to make links like
> mailto:dokuwiki@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=namespace:namespace:namespace
> in newletters that people receive by mail.
> 
> So what I wanted to ask: what is the preferred way to interact directly 
> with the data in the data-directory? Of course i could just tamper these 
> files, but I'm sure there is a better way.
> 
well.. if it were me, i would either use the functions in the php files
to do it, and thereby make use of the lock system, or simply myself look
for lock files, and create/remove them, and then manipulate the files.

> Is anyone else letting other scripts/programs modifying the 
> dokuwiki/data/pages files?
> 
> Youre ideas are more than welcome!
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Riny

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