web development @ earlab

cookbook recipes to install

Coocbook recipes to study and use for pmwiki:

1. hg: hierarchical groups. http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/Hg. See also http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/HierarchicalGroups (highly recommended reading!)
2. hg-urls: making hierarchical groups show / instead of - separators in url’s: http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/HgUrls
3. AuthUser: user-name and password authentication scheme, with user groups: http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/AuthUser IMPORTANT!
4. CleanUrls. url’s that look like / separated paths instead of php arguments. The basic setup for clean urls is just one line in the config.php file:
   $EnablePathInfo = 1;
   This page page gives more detailed info: http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/CleanUrls This is complicated background, but may be very useful in the future to simplify paths.
5. Applet: Embed java applets in pmwiki pages. http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/Applet
6. mp3 playback: (compare the following two methods, and write a report with conclusion)
   
   1. FlashMediaPlayer: Embedding Flash media players (also plays back mp3 !?): http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/FlashMediaPlayer
   2. DeliciousPlaytagger: mp3 playback with on-off button and progress bar, via DeliciousPlaytagger website: http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/DeliciousPlaytagger
7. Flash: Embedding Flash movies (compare the following two methods, and write a repoert with conclusion:)
   
   1. See FlashMediaPlayer above. …
   2. Flash recipe: http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/Flash
   3. Flowplayer (hot!). http://flowplayer.org/ : “Flowplayer is an Open Source (GPL 3) video player for the Web. Use it to embed video streams into your web pages.”. http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/Flowplayer
8. Flickr: Flickr integration (but we should look for Picasa too!) http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/Flickr

Additional recipes, for later:

1. Categories: http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/Categories
2. Trails: http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/WikiTrails
3. Fox: Allow readers to add comments to pages. http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/Fox
4. BlogIt: For bloggging inside pmwiki. http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/BlogIt The themes available are clean and clear: http://davidgilbert.org/ http://solidgone.org/
5. Quiz: May be useful in designing educational material on the wiki, for AVARTS or else: http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/Quiz
6. InputDraw: Simple online dawing tool. http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/InputDraw
7. ??? MindJet Map integration?