History: WebHelp

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From: Luis Argerich <luis@fu...> - 2003-11-18 09:33

 Warning, may contain PHP alike substance
 
 I just quickly added a new feature to the code, it"s absolutely beta and
 experimental and I reallye expect others, specially "visually" gifted
 developers to enhance this feature and fix it if it"s not working as
 expected.
 The basic idea is to generate a WebHelp from a Tiki Structure (Structure = a
 tree of wiki pages as you know)
 From the strucctures menu you will see a button to create a webhelp. The
 webhelps are created in whelp/$name where name is configurable and defaulted
 to the name of the root of the structure.
 The generated webhelp is a static representation of the structure with a js
 tree that can be used to navigate the structure and a search
 function, print function, history and some other gizmos.
 I think we can use this to distribute the Tikified Tiki documentation in an
 usable format for users and since structures can be re-created
 whenever you want we can also keep an online version in tikiwiki.org
 I think this has a lot of potential but there"s a lot to improve in the
 presentation and very raw code I just introduced.
 I based this in the new model for structures by Chris Holman so it will work
 with 1.8+
 Comments, rants and questions as always will be appreciated.
 
 Luis
 
 PS: One to-do is to make the CSS of the webhelp compatible with the default
 style for the site, in order to do this I think that we must edit the base
 (.html) files in the lib/tikihelp directory and make them use elements
 already defined in the style instead of redefining new elements.
 Blah blah....
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