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neofish

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mBlog - minimalist blog software written in php

I made mBlog for an assignment, but it turned out that it's just the kind of thing that Arch linux users would like.

It reads all of the files from a specified directory, and displays them in a html page.

I only just learnt php this afternoon, so it's really simple and small.  Any suggestions on how to improve the code are most welcome

http://github.com/neofish/mBlog/raw/master/index.php

Last edited by neofish (2010-08-21 12:26:30)

Heller_Barde

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Re: mBlog - minimalist blog software written in php

wow you weren't kidding with the minimalist. It's really short, but I'm sure you could improve on that a bit further. For example make the computer do the boring work like putting the title of a blog post into the needed html tags. Or stuff like that. Just automate it a bit further, because else you can just have one html file to write everything into (which is it's own nice thing on its own )

But it's a cool minimalist idea!

cheers
Barde

Dieter@be

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Re: mBlog - minimalist blog software written in php

fwiw, for the uzbl website we made something similar, using the phatso php micro-framework from Judd V.
it's similar, but supports markdown formatting and simple url routing.
http://github.com/Dieterbe/uzbl-website

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gtklocker

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Re: mBlog - minimalist blog software written in php

I can't understand how it works

fiendskull9

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Re: mBlog - minimalist blog software written in php

i expanded upon this into my own little mini blog script, this was a great idea

http://www.notwavingbutdrowning.info/blog/

Xyne

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Re: mBlog - minimalist blog software written in php

Any suggestions on how to improve the code are most welcome

Try to get it to validate, at least for most expected input (wrapping the content in <pre> tags might be enough to encapsulate it).

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Peasantoid

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Re: mBlog - minimalist blog software written in php

I believe the C-style comments at the top will interfere with your output, since they are not wrapped in <?php ... ?>. (Note that I have not written PHP in ages.)

i expanded upon this into my own little mini blog script, this was a great idea

http://www.notwavingbutdrowning.info/blog/

It's good to see I'm not the only person who uses 'cock' as a metasyntactic variable.

neofish

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Re: mBlog - minimalist blog software written in php

As I said, I'm VERY new to php, so the original script is the best I could do.

Fixed up the comments and added a readme.  I'm currently working on validating it <.<
>.>.

Please feel free to give me patches, I'm more than happy to use anyone's suggestions.  (and thanks for everything mentioned so far)

upsidaisium

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Re: mBlog - minimalist blog software written in php

It would be very easy to add Markdown support, which - I think - most people would like. You can download it at the PHP Markdown site and then add the line..

require_once 'markdown.php';

..to the top of your file. (Within the <?php .. ?> tags, of course).

And then you're able to simplify your printFile() function a bit:

function printFile($file) {
  echo Markdown(file_get_contents($file));
  echo '<hr />';
}

Edit: and here's the PHP doc page for file_get_contents(), in case you haven't come across it before..

Last edited by upsidaisium (2010-08-26 12:46:06)

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neofish

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Re: mBlog - minimalist blog software written in php

Just updated this with most of the suggestions made, slow development much

I have added markdown, file_get_contents() (fgets was a stupid idea), css, and have wrapped the posts up in <article> tags.

http://github.com/neofish/mBlog