History: TikiLite

Motivation

Some users with limited resources (be it hosting with a specified disk and/or file quota) often wonder how they could get rid of all those features they do not need. Even if the features are nice and cool, they are often not anything everybody needs. An end-user installing tiki would nowadays install many 1000's of files, as well as several 100 tables for every database they install.

This page would be a documented guide to help them determine what they can easily remove, where to do it and what tables it uses. Please feel free to add to this page. Add to it a versioning scheme ...

The works

How this page is to be edited/read:

for every feature, add the database tables it needs. Then add the files that are theirs solely. Then add the files they depend on that are files belonging to other features. As well as database tables that belong to others.

Also make sure that any library used (besides Smarty/adodb) is also mentioned, every img for a theme, ...

An example would be

MyFeature

Version 1.7.x

• [+] Files
  • tiki-myfeature.php
  • libs/myfeature/myfeature.php
  • templates/myfeature.tpl
• Table(s)
  • tiki_myFeature
• Depends on feature(s)
  • OtherFeature
    • Files it depends on
      • lib/OtherFeature.php
      • templates/OtherFeatureView.tpl
      • templates/OtherFeatureEdit.tpl
    • Tables it depends on for that feature
      • tiki_otherfeature
• Other actions
  • Remove entire Feature block from main/application menu
  • Remove checkbox 'myFeature' in features page

Features List

Wiki

Trackers

Blogs

Articles

Image Galleries

File Galleries

Submissions

FAQs

Forums

Chat

Directory

Trackers

Newsreader

Webmail

Polls

Surveys

Quizzes

Ephemerides

Featured links

Search

Banners

Full Text Search

Games

Search stats

Newsletters

Live support system

Workflow engine

Mini Calendar

Calendar

Themes

• [+]Files
  • $tikidir/styles/<themename>.css
  • Directory: $tikidir/styles/<themename>
  • Directory: $tikidir/templates/styles/<themename>
• So to remove the Akwa theme:
  • Delete $tikidir/styles/akwa.css
  • Delete Folder $tikidir/styles/akwa
  • Delete Folder $tikidir/templates/styles/akwa
• Themes are independant of all other TikiWiki features

Modules

• [+]Files
  • Delete: $tikidir/modules/<modulename>.php
  • Delete: $tikidir/templates/modules/<modulename>.tpl
• Some good ones to remove
  • mod-shoutbox
  • mod-logo
  • mod-google
  • mod-last_modified_blogs
  • mod-last_modif_pages
  • mod-last_modif_tracker_items
  • mod-live_support
  • mod-messages_unread_messages

... please fill on the list with features, modules, themes (although for them it is almost straightforward to remove)