SMW questions and help

[hishutup]

I created this template which is very much unfinished because I always wanted to give it a shot and I figured this may be a good time.

I don't know about you but this is very complex and my poor variable naming skills are really shining.

 

I want what you think. Is there a way to optimize some of the code. There are parts that can be broken off into other templates like the list thing. Now come to think of it, I think it should.

 

This should for any of the guides that are out there. If there is something specific that you want then I'll add it but right now my brain hurts because of this mess.

 

I'm not going to rip out code so that the template become more generic because I developed it for myself, I will add though. I can make another one if it desired

 

Soon to come:

My mod install procedure.

variable header tags.

[z929669]

I will have to read your last post again when I have more time.

 

I mentioned MI-templates, because the ExternalURL property is contained in a MIT, according to the DD ... but you are saying that MITs are mechanized within the Form and not the Template, right?

[stoppingby4now]

The DD is referencing Forms and the templates they use, so the notes regarding multiple instance templates are to the fact that they are used in the Form that way.

 

The queries using a template format are calling the specified template for each row of returned data, so I guess you could refer to it that way. Semantic Forms uses that term to specify that a template can be called multiple times in a page. I don't consider it the same because the templates for a query aren't individual calls on a page directly, so avoid it's use in the context of queries to prevent confusion.

[hishutup]

Any eta on the Dev server?

[hishutup]

Bumping for visibility

[stoppingby4now]

No ETA.

[hishutup]

hmm, I took a look at the virtual environment and I am completely lost.

Do either of you happen to have a virtual drive that you could share with me?

[z929669]

Use a Droplet on DigitalOcean?

[hishutup]

I mean something that runs in VM.

I figured one of you two had a VM to share.

[stoppingby4now]

I don't have a generic VM to share, and even if I created one it would be around 2GB. Not easy to share. It would be far easier for you to install CentOS in a VM and install Apache/PHP/MySQL for an environment. It would be easier for you to download a pre-made image with a LAMP stack installed such as this one.

[z929669]

@hishutup

You seem technically proficient ... setting up a VM is really very simple. Create a VM with VirtualBox and install CentOS. It is configuring the server that is more challenging.

 

As s4n says though, there should be many images fully configured with Mediawiki on Linux that you can use. It does not really matter what Linux flavor and stack you use, as you are interested in MW dev, which will not care. If you were testing primarily for software compatibility, that would be different, but s4n has that covered (and I as his backup).

 

On the other hand, getting the dev wiki up and running would be a big win in the short term, and it should be relatively simple to implement ... unless s4n is wanting to implement memcached and other software upgrades first, which is probably the case.