Table of Contents

Certain parts of DokuWiki's code are grown over several years and should be completely overhauled. This page gives a rough overview on these issues.

• clean up and consolidate duplicate code
• make certain function more flexible to use (do away with hardcoded IDs)
• get rid of eval where possible

• The whole system needs to be analyzed and redesigned
• Maybe use a different format than serialized PHP

• savewikitext() is one ugly lump of code
• we should get proper return codes (or exceptions?) to see when and what went wrong

• Some of the generated HTML code contains workarounds for very old browsers which we can start to ignore
• Some code just doesn't make sense

Most of the functions in inc/media.php directly work with $_FILES, which makes it impossible to reuse them in other parts like XMLRPC or WebDAV. These functions are best to be changed to work with file handles instead.