php mywiki brian casey eastern kentucky university
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PHP MYWIKI
Brian Casey Eastern Kentucky University
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OUTLINE
Why use a wiki ? Who can benefit?
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MOTIVATION
Create an easier method of documentation
Allow for independent issue resolution
Save time
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INTRODUCTION
Wikis are an increasingly popular tool for self hosted documentation
User access limitation for sensitive information
Database driven PHP powered
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PROBLEM STATEMENT Technical support and server
administrators as well as IT departments face a constant assault of potential issues.
An internally hosted source with information on previously solved problems would drastically reduce the amount of time spent “googling” for answers if the issue has already been solved and placed in the Wiki.
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ASSUMPTIONS
Existing IT Department Existing Servers powered by
IIS, WAMP, or LAMP Knowledgeable Server
Administrators Storage space for dynamic
databases
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ASSUMPTIONS
Server Licensing is maintained Secure Internal Host Dedicated staff
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PROPOSED SOLUTION Create a hosted Wiki
Prepare Server Download Server Software Install necessary languages and
platforms Install Wiki Testing and troubleshooting Verifying results Success!
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RESULTS
Successful creation of Wiki Dynamic User Creation is
working Ability to create new pages
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CONCLUSIONS
With a working wiki you can store lots of easily solved problems with simple to follow instructions. Additionally if you find a new, better method of solving a problem you can update the wiki.
This project has increased my understanding of database and scripting driven websites greatly.
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FUTURE WORK This project has expanded my
knowledge on PHP and MySQL and as a future security auditor I intend to become more familiar with these potentially dangerous scripting tools.
Add an email server so the Wiki can send email.
Suggestions? Thank you for watching! My email is [email protected]
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REFERENCES Casey, B. (2013). PHPMyWiki. Retrieved from
the CE/CEN Capstone Projects – Spring 2013 Web site: http://people.eku.edu/chandrav/NET/Capstone_2013/capstoneProjects_2013.html