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Simple (to the point of being trivial) PHP Blog Engine using file system instead of a DB.

created by josef.jelinek@gmail.com

Main points:

• installed by copying files to a remote server, updating a simple config file
• posts created by the person with the password - the Author (the initial one is "test" without quotes)
• posts created as drafts (not visible to viewers), then published when ready
• posts created as HTML
• editing and deleting drafts, posts, and comments is available only to the Author
• comments created as plain text preserving line breaks
• comments open for viewers to add and to edit what they posted for a couple of minutes
• adding comments can be frozen per post
• categorization using customizable tags
• Atom feed for posts and all comments
• full text search in posts
• graphical CAPTCHA preventing (to a degree) automated spammers
• ~50kB of formatted PHP+HTML+CSS source code (+ 24kb images)

Instalation:

• download the repository
• change the config folder settings if necessary
• adjust CSS to your own taste
• download a font for CAPTCHA to fonts directory
• update captcha.php to use it (it uses fonts/ConcertOne-Regular.ttf now)
• upload to your server with PHP support

Possible problems:

• if you cannot post anything, the file access rights are probably preventing PHP to write to the data/* directories set the rights for the directories under the data directory to read/write (0777 under unix/linux) you can usually use even ftp application by sending a server SITE command - e.g. for data/posts directory: quote site chmod 0777 data/posts
• IE6 and IE7 are supported to a certain degree, IE8 is a bit better, IE9 seems working fine

Changing your password:

• currently a bit tricky, but it is usually very infrequent operation
• sign in using the current password (initially it is "test" without quotes)
• go to your site /auth.php/test
• enter the new password and submit
• replace the code in /config/config.php by the newly generated code on the page