PWP Wiki Processor

Found this last week, and it seems interesting. To a lazy geek like me, at any rate! You may be aware of Wikis - it's a quick and easy way of knitting yourself a website. All editing takes place online; you provide the content and it provides the framework, and it takes care of all the linking and navigation based on simple tags you put into your text. They're dead popular for intranets (I know this because we use one daily!) and anything that you need to update content on regularly. One of the greatest Wikis is Wikipedia, an online collaborative encyclopaedia of, well, everything.

Anyway, I've been wanting to get one running to go beside the blog for a while, and I've tried a couple before, but this one has caught my eye: PWP Wiki Processor. Unlike normal Wikis where the pages are always made dynamically and content is drawn from a database, formatted for display, merged with a template and eventually passed to the browser, PWP does this once and writes a static page on the server - kinda like the way Blogger works. The result is an incredibly low overhead for the server, and faster pages. As a result it does away with the database altogether and stores the content in flat files, as they're only needed when you're going to make an edit. Nice. (And more like the idea I had for my training project than the one I mentioned before.)

So, I'm going to give it a go. The syntax is a bit odd compared to the Wiki I'm used to, so I'm going to alter the processor to match it (so my new PHP book will come in handy, obviously). And I'll have to get a template that works and matches both the Blog and the Wiki. But I think it'll make it nicer for me indexing my musings, as well as taking care of some of the stuff that would be nice to gather together (like my techy projects - phones and Linux on a Mac and stuff). Hence my interest.

Sorry for going on a bit, I'm waiting for files to copy from my old work PC to my new one...