Re: [PHP-WEBMASTER] Re: Different markup for index.php

On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 15:35, Peter Cowburn <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 5 January 2011 11:33, Hannes Magnusson <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 05:15, Stewart Lord <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Hi Hannes,
>>>
>>> I want the ability to produce different markup for the beta home page. I don't want to modify the markup for the current stable home page or risk messing it up. Do you have any suggestions on how I should do this?
>>>
>>> One idea I had was to copy index.php to index-stable.php, add a index-beta.php and then make index.php include the appropriate one based on the result of myphpnet_beta().
>>
>>
>> I saw the accidental commits of yours, sounds like an OK idea.
>> The current frontpage sends out chunks of cache headers, so you would
>> always need to 'refresh' the page when you want to see the beta page,
>> so I am wondering if we should disable the beta mode on production
>> mirrors, and always redirect to docs.php.net and prototype.php.net
>> when enabled?
>
> Is it too late to work on a branch, rather than trunk? That way, you
> can change whatever markup you like as well as get rid of all of those
> myphpnet_beta() conditions.
>


The reason I merged the prototype to trunk is exactly because
maintaining stuff in an SVN branch is a complete fckup and experience
has shown that it will never be merged.
Plus the fact, now that this is in trunk and people can see the
changes, it forces to actually work on stuff - and hopefully attracts
new blood to work on these things.

-Hannes