[Nottingham] Zero-PHP wiki!?

[Garry Saddington]

Martin wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> Not that I'm anti-php or anti-database but I've just been reminded of a
> few conversations lately bemoaning the insecurity of php and the
> sluggishness of website abused databases. Some of the combinations are a
> right royal mess in the back end!... And vulnerable and as slow as
> treacle with it.
> 
> Why cannot a web page be displayed ALWAYS more quickly than 0.5s?
> 
> So... For a wiki-esq website (NLUG even?), would the following scheme
> work well instead?...
> 
> 
> 1:
> 
> Keep the main public website as *static* web pages only served from a
> (ramfs even?) file system;
> 
> 2:
> 
> Use php (or whatever favoured programming) to add/delete/update those
> static pages;
> 
> 3:
> 
> Use "username - password - digestkey" to restrict access to the php
> pages that modify the wiki (ok, could sneak in a minimal database for
> that bit).
> 
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> Already done?
> 
> Anyone done anything similar?

Zope and ZiddlyWiki would do all of the above very effectively and be 
more secure and use python.
However getting a webserver with Zope means standard hosting services 
are not apporiate.
Regards
Garry