ARK2

This page details the progress on development of ARK 2.0

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, or deleted as they are no longer used.