From: "Eddie Parker" <eddie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [dokuwiki] Hello, a couple questions. :)
Sent: Jun 01 2005 20:07:50
Hello,
I understand this to be a development centric e-mail list for DokuWiki,
so that's why I'm posing these questions here. :) Please shoo me to the
appropriate place, if this is not in fact the right one.
Anyhow, the reason I'm here is because I would like to implement some
code in DokuWiki, particularly I would like to fix issue #45
(http://bugs.splitbrain.org/?do=details&id=45): "Password Change".
To do this, I could see a good cause for refactoring a bit of the ACL
stuff, to make it a bit more generic, etc, but I wanted to see what's
preferred, since it's obviously not my code base. :)
Anyhow, the root of my change is this: I want to allow users to edit
their preferences, which at this time is just e-mail, username, and
password. Pretty trivial to do, in terms of getting the data, displaying
it, etc. No problem.
Looking a little deeper however, the ACL that's used by default
(auth_plain) stores things in just a plaintext file.
The format of the plaintext file isn't too bad, I believe it's colon
separated or some such, but I was thinking this would be a great place
to put XML in, especially since PHP has a very nifty
xml_parse_into_struct, to get what we need, and writing it out is even
simpler.
That said, I was looking into how I would either a) 'replace' auth_plain
to use this functionality, or b) create an analogue to auth_plain
(auth_xml?), and I noticed that there are no classes in use anywhere!
(Near as I could see). Out of curiousity, is that policy, or preference?
Just so I know what I should/can/can't do. :)
Also, on a similar note: what are thoughts on using PHPUnit?
(http://pear.php.net/manual/en/packages.php.phpunit.intro.php) I haven't
had much experience with PHPUnit, but I'm a huge advocate of PyUnit,
Boost::Test, JsUnit, etc, and I wouldn't mind hooking my things up to
proper unit testing.
Anyhow, this e-mail has gotten a bit out of hand. In summary:
a) Is this the place to ask questions related to dev work? (I'm pretty
sure it is. :))
b) Anybody mind if I pick up the #45 bug, if I can manage the time for it?
c) Anyone have any complaints on how I'd like to go about making the
auth_ change?
d) Can I introduce some new concepts (allowing they're not there, like I
think they're not?)? (Things like classes, PHPUnit, etc?)
Anyhow, hope I'm not asking too much. I'm eager to help this good piece
of software grow. :)
-e-
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