> > Hsing-Foo: > > any chance you can take a look at 'integration' of phpfreechat and > > pmwiki including user (automatic) authentication?
> Luigi: > I personally happen to be the most unskilled one within this whole community. > That said, I'll try and look into it for you. Ok, failure :-( I've been trying for a few days but, alas,... I could not find my way into integrating Phpfreechat [1] and Pmwiki. I'm confident, though, that in this community there are enough people who have the skill and the will to make the right steps towards it. Chats (whatever the form) are brilliant and highly valuable tools; they sit right next to wikis, billboards, emails and mailing lists where cooperation and knowledge flow is needed within communities. Indeed Phpfreechat stands out of the crowd as one of the best chats available today: installing is quite straightforward, and it is feature rich although still in early development (about one year old product). It's quite flexible (the ChatCreator [2] suggested by Jon seems to run on it, as well) and, which is maybe more, seems reliable: I've not (yet) found people alerting about security issues for this particular chat. As a hobbist carpenter, I'm under the impression that, often, using the right tool for the right job makes life easier and helps obtaining better results. There is more: using a screwdriver to hammer nails would most probably spoil the tool; likewise, precious time would most probably be wasted if one was to build a non-basic chat within pmwiki. Do not misunderstand me, Dan, please: you are doing an interesting job with Zap! Just, let me make an example: while it's nice and worth to have simple forums developed right within the wiki (we actually have more than one, and good working), I might well think of many situations where full featured boards like phpBB or punBB are to be considered as the most suitable tools for the job. Here is why I am inclined to suggest that somebody (cleverer than I am) please try and find a way to integrate Phpfreechat and Pmwiki. I fancy here that, about the same way Phpfreechat can effortlessy be integrated with phpBB [4] and punBB [3], some practical recipe/instructions/settings could be developed for pmwiki without too much hassle. Last but not least, the guy behind Phpfreechat is quite kind and helpful, anyway. Luigi [1] http://www.phpfreechat.net/ [2] http://chatcreator.com/chatbox/ [3] http://www.phpfreechat.net/faq.en.html#punbb [4] http://www.phpfreechat.net/faq.en.html#phpbb _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users
