[pmwiki-users] MySQL

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 10:50:56AM -0700, Vigil, Becky wrote:
>    Hi
>    I'm looking into using Pmwiki, I was wondering if Pmwiki supports the use
>    of MySQL

Do you mean supporting MySQL as a mechanism for storing wiki pages,
or the ability to interface with MySQL for other purposes?

PmWiki defaults to storing its pages as flat files instead of a database,
although it's possible to write a MySQL backend for PmWiki.  However,
we haven't encountered a strong reason for doing this -- see
http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/FlatFileAdvantages for reasons why.

Interfacing with MySQL can be done via cookbook recipes -- see
http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/MyPmWiki for an example.

Thanks!

Pm