Support/Comments for ModxTracs

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Brief Description:
Poor Man's Modx revision control implemented with the Trac Wiki

well thats an interesting idea. How’s it working for you/your clients? Do they like it?

I think I’m probably the only "client" at this point, so I guess the answer is "Yes" To clarify, I hacked this in as a way to get my editors back to a previous version of a hosed-up page with a reasonable level of effort. The editors are marriage counselors and sex therapists. I’ll wait while you run the numbers OK, all kidding aside, the ladies who are doing the actual ModX page edits have never asked for a recover on a page. It’s mostly for me when I REALLY get wild on a plugin edit!

Are you planning on creating a module or something to re-import certain pages if needed?

No, I don’t plan to automate restore since it’s pretty easy to cut and paste the html from the wiki. Plus, I don’t want it to be TOO easy to inject old content back into the live site

Just uploaded v0.4 of ModxTracs which adds some db-escape calls to handle special characters in content meta-data fields, particularly the title.

I’m getting this error
« Execution of a query to the database failed - SELECT command denied to user ’[username]’@’localhost’ for table ’wiki’ »


Where do I define the table ’wiki’ there is no entry for that in my MySQL db!!!

In the resulting configuration parameters, you will need to modify at least the name of your trac database, as the default is unlikely to work.

in the plugin configuration tab there should be a place to set the name of the trac db.

BTW - this is a great idea, how did I miss this when it was posted.
How has it been working out?

Would you guys advice to use trac with developing websites?

I don’t know trac that good, but isn’t it better to just see these changes inside a module of modx?

Shane, did the config variable take care of your problem? This has been running fine for me, I really haven’t changed anything since v.4. Glad you like it!

I did try to hook up changes to files in the filesystem (included PHP files in particular) but there were no events specific to them and the amount of hacking on the core code was more than I wanted to take on. Might revisit in the future though.

Later, Rick

Quote from: dev_cw at Sep 10, 2008, 05:44 AM

In the resulting configuration parameters, you will need to modify at least the name of your trac database, as the default is unlikely to work.

in the plugin configuration tab there should be a place to set the name of the trac db.

BTW - this is a great idea, how did I miss this when it was posted.
How has it been working out?