By drofnar on

In case anyone is interested, I have hacked together a really krappy integration of a tiddlywiki in Drupal (based on the php tiddlywiki by Patrick Curry, which is modified to be a server side version of jeremy rushtons brilliant tiddlywiki). Its the first time ive created a module (im not a programmer) and I took inspiration from seeing the moodle module for drupal. However Im 100% sure that phptiddlywiki can be integrated far better and with far more efficiency than done here. My main motivation was to simply have a go at making a module and I really wanted to see a tiddlywiki in drupal. Its really flaky and I dont recomend touching it if you aren't just playing around. If you can code, havent yet seen a tiddlywiki or want to think about doing a real phptiddlywiki for drupal, then this may be of interest to you. Certainly if some real coder was to have a go at creating a good tiddlywiki in Drupal I'd be real keen to hear of it. If anyone is interested in feel free to contact me - I can send you a copy of what I have to date... Mark

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tangibre commented

I'm interested, Mark. I have just started using a TiddlyWiki and am hooked! Have played around with both server side solutions like ccTiddly and stand alone versions. For me writing in a TiddlyWiki solution is a lot faster than to do it in Drupal when I want to structure my content on the fly. In addition it is really handy to be able to edit one or more "tiddlers" (a lot like nodes in Drupal terminology) at the same time in the same browser window. The flexible way you can open and close tiddlers without a page refresh is also efficient.

I understand why Drupal is not TiddlyWiki and vice versa. They are simply different systems for different needs. Still, I hope that: Drupal will enable more dynamic loading of content, like TiddlyWiki, and that TiddlyWiki would be more modular with a good server side solution, like Drupal. I would love to have a embedded TiddlyWiki in Drupal (could be as easy as an uploaded file accessible and updatable) or an import/export functionality. Maybe the export/import API in Summer of code 2006 will enable this (http://basement.greenash.net.au/soc2006/ImportExportApiModule)?

Well, enough about my thoughts about TiddlyWiki + Drupal. I’m interested in looking at your module. Alas I’m no programmer either ;-)