ARK2

This page details the progress on development of ARK 2.0

Supported Platforms

• PHP: A minimum of v5.5 will be required (or maybe 5.6?), v7 will be supported.

Code Repository

Development of ARK 2.0 is occurring in the open on GitHub https://github.com/lparchaeology/ark2

Configuration

Significant changes to the configuration of ARK are being made to move from PHP file based configuration to database based configuration. This section will document these changes.

• The config/ folder will contain all user-editable php files required
• The php/settings/ folder will contain the generic settings files and templates for moving to config/. This allows upstream changes to be made to the templates and upgrades performed more easily.
• The env_settings.php file is replaced by database.php and server.php
• database.php contains the settings for the database connection
• server.php contains the settings for the server file paths
• To set-up an ARK, copy database.php, server.php and preflight_checks.php from php/settings to config/ and edit as required
• preflight_checks.php now defaults to off, so needs to be enabled before running, and then deleted form config afterwards
• settings.php has moved from config/ to php/settings/ and no longer requires user editing, all settings are now help in the database and should be configured per the instructions

Database

• Configuration has been moved to the database
• A new ADO class has been created to wrap all access to PDO

Changes

Other significant changes are documented here.

• A number of config global variables have been renamed for consistency
  • Any var ending in _dir is an absolute filesystem directory path
  • Any var ending in _path is a URL path relative to the hostname and always starts with a '/'
  • Neither var ever ends in a separator
  • $ark_server_path -> $ark_root_dir
  • $ark_dir -> $ark_root_path and no longer ends in a /
  • $registered_files_host -> $registered_files_path
  • $phMagickDir -> $phmagick_file
  • ark_web_maptemp_dir -> ark_maptemp_path
  • $ark_lib_dir and $ark_lib_path point to the library folder
  • $skins_dir and $skins_path point to the skins folder
  • $skin_dir and $skin_path point to the current skin folder

• A number of config global variables have been renamed for clarity
  • $mode -> $search_mode
  • $ftx_mode -> $search_ftx_mode

• A number of config global variables have been deleted as they are not used:
  • $default_year
  • $conf_non_search_words
  • $conf_langs
  • $loaded_map_modules
  • $default_output_mode

• The logging globals have been changed
  • $log, $conf_log_add, $conf_log_edt, $conf_log_del are deleted
  • $log_ins, $log_upd and $log_del are used instead

• The $fs_path_sep and $fs_slash have been removed, use PATH_SEPARATOR and DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR constants instead.