Friday, 2 February 2007

Drupal-Based Community Site for PHP-GTK

The Riff blog has a new post that talks about a Drupal based community site for PHP-GTK which is functional in this link— http://www.php-gtk.eu.

The post details the features used and says that it’s a plain Drupal 5.0 site using the new Garland theme without custom changes besides a much needed fix and a site-specific module for things like useful referer counting and the PHP-GTK development geolocation service. The site also sports an optional ‘PHP-GTK’ theme derived from the theme currently on http://gtk.php.net.

The contents are a mix of a Drupal.org-like community site and data reimported from the previous PmWiki-based PHP-GTK Wiki. The Wiki had to be removed because of heavy-handed spamming. Filtering the content by hand showed above 98 per cent of the Wiki contents were Spam, and this caused the PHP-GTK team to remove it as it became a menace to handle. Restoring the actual contents of the Wiki, contributed over three years by PHP-GTK developers and users was the primary motivation for setting up this site says the author of the post.

The author concludes by saying that Drupal should prove to be more resilient than PmWiki. As it is suspected the primary reason for PmWiki failing security-wise was a lack of maintenance, since the online Wiki used a very old version of the package, instead of remaining up-to-date taking advantage of new security fixes.