[phplib] New site using phpslash... From: Aric Caley (greywire <email protected>)
Date: 05/24/01

I am developing a website and I wish to use phpslash on it. I have some questions:

What version of the code should I use? Should I keep the site constantly up to date with what is being developed, or just use the official releases? And, how do I go about updating the code without blowing out any changes I've made (say I totaly customize the templates to fit with my site's look and feel)? Will the databases be changing enough to blow out existing articles I've entered? I'm concerned that if I get my site up and running for a while and have lots of content posted that it will all go bye-bye with some future version of the code.

I'd like to serve out different versions of the site... for instance, plain HTML, HTML with CSS, WML, and Flash... what's a good way to go about doing this? Have several different sets of templates and somehow direct the phpslash code to the appropriate directory? I was thinking having just one set of templates in some form of XML code and have an XML -> whatever post processor... this make any sense?

I have the code currently running and it works, most of the time. Seemingly randomly, but all too frequently (on the order of 1 out of 3 or 4 page accesses) I get a screenfull of errors on a page, but a refresh will display just fine... what could be the problem here?

Finaly, I'd like to contribute to developing the code, as I'm sure I will need some features that dont exist yet. How should I go about doing this, when the time comes?