Preserved Topic: php blogger software

does anyone know of a good php blogger software I can download. I went to hotscripts and found nothing. All the ones I find seem to be cgi...

http://www.noahgrey.com/greysoft/

I'm working on one, bitdamaged has one on the go and DmS has a tutorial on a 'news' script at the GN.

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Emps

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Well, as long as we're chipping in, I've got a home-brewed system that's in use at my own site -- you're welcome to the code, but (like most PHP that's not originally written for outside distribution) it's going to require a little work to extricate it from the parent pages.

Then again, the pages get all their visual appearance from an external CSS file, and draw all their graphics/menu/titles from an included header file. I can even dump the database structure as a series of SQL instructions for you to feed into MySQL to get you started. So I guess that as long as you know the basics of PHP and MySQL (or are willing to learn), then my system should be pretty easy to get working.

edit: Note that my system is moderately full-featured -- it's got comments, user registration and profiles, email notification of new posts/comments for those who want it, a cookie-based "watchlist" providing quick access to comment threads of interest. And if you actually show an interest in it, I'll hurry up and include Textile as the composition engine.

[This message has been edited by Perfect Thunder (edited 03-24-2003).]

PT, I would be interested in checking out your script. I'll email you or you can just email it to me if you like.

Later,

C:\


~Binary is best~

Tell you what, I'll take a little while tomorrow (or at least, twelve hours from this post) to implement Textile in the system, test that for a bit, then rip out the relevant scripts and try to make them as featureless as possible. Then I'll post them here, along with the database schemata (in SQL dump form), in a big zip file.

Just a friendly warning, this system was how I learned PHP, so don't expect it to be completely professional-looking under the hood. I could have done a lot more encapsulation/abstraction, for one thing; many things are in functions, but too many things aren't. It's got several features, but most of them were hacked up in fifteen-minute bursts.

Things it doesn't have are a category system; retrieval of old posts by date range or author name; and a search function. These would all be just a moment's work, though -- a category system would require me to add a column to the posts table, and go back and categorize the existing posts, but that's not so hard. The other two are just different SELECT queries, although of course "WHERE content LIKE 'text fragment'" is just the first baby step in making a real search function.

PT, thanks for the offer. I am not real concerned about the features that you mentioned that it doens't have (or what it looks like under the hood) As long as it works I'll be happy

Thanks again.

Later,

C:\


~Binary is best~

PT is right that it makes a lot of difference the blog/news script I'm working is done from the ground up specifically to make it easier for people to install and customise and slot it into a wider site design. Its the first piece of code I've done in quite that way and it has proved very interesting indeed

Anyway I'll let people know when it is ready - it will be fully featured (and if not it'll be open source so people can make and submit changes, etc.).

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Emps

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cool sounds great to me as well. I'm used to ripping into code a bit. It's hard to find a php blogging system. Thanks PT!

hmm yeah mine's pretty much done but I was working on an installer script for it and just kinda got side tracked.

the rough cut is here

lemme know if you try it and have problems installing or using it. I've got an unfinished installer script which may make things easier.



.:[ Never resist a perfect moment ]:.

just downloaded it bd, looks really good. Archiving and everything.

Well, mine's probably not as good as bitdamaged's (that possessive really doesn't look right), especially since it's essentially lifted directly from my site with little to no abstraction or ease of installation. But here it is. Original directory structure, header.php, doctype.php, all included. You'd want to do a little finding and replacing in order to change all the "alan_weblog," "alan_users," and "alan_weblogcomments" table references to your own stuff.

Of particular note is the file "alan_cms.sql" -- this is a structure dump of the relevant tables. Just edit the SQL file to give the tables whatever names you want (and then find and replace for those names in all the scripts) and then feed the SQL file into MySQL to automatically create the necessary tables.