Hack-o-rama!
I've thought about this, too. Maybe a bunch of us PHP gurus (or not)
should branch MediaWiki and make it more hackable in this maner.
Develop a generic interface for making these things easy to hack and
then port MediaWiki to them. Then maybe attack a couple other popular
PHP-based apps and port them to the interface too. That'd really be
great. IMO this would definately save a lot of us a lot of effort
reinventing the wheel so frequently.
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Michael <mogmios(a)mlug.missouri.edu>
http://kavlon.org