RE: [PHP] Knowledge Base software - looking for opinions

From: haliphax > On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Paul M Foster <paulf@quillandmouse.com> wrote: >> On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 12:55:54PM -0700, mike wrote: >> >>> http://puresw.com/products/lore/ - paid >>> http://www.knowledgebase-script.com/ - paid >>> http://68kb.com/ - free >>> >>> Free is good. >>> >>> Just needs to be basic, nothing crazy. >>> >>> A Wiki -almost- meets the needs but a) I hate wikis and b) they don't >>> match up 100% >> >> Out of curiosity, why do you dislike wikis? > > It may be the lack of access permissions in a lot of the wiki systems > out there right now... though some of them have an access control > layer (such as TWiki). Dokuwiki <http://wiki.splitbrain.org/wiki:dokuwiki> has an optional ACL layer for access control. There are also several options for authentication back ends. We used it in a grass roots project for over a year before management decide it was a good idea and bought a site license for Confluence as the official company wide knowledge base. I was trying to get the LDAP interface working with Active Directory when they informed me it was going to be phased out. Bob McConnell