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This page details the progress on development of ARK 2.0
 
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== Supported Platforms ==
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* PHP: A minimum of v5.5 will be required (or maybe 5.6?), v7 will be supported.
  
 
== Code Repository ==
 
== Code Repository ==

Revision as of 15:55, 3 February 2016

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 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