My Blogging System

[scottlc]

Here is a screenshot of my new blogging system running. It isn't finished yet but it can now display my blog.

[Razor Blade]

Simple and very nice. I like it alot!

[scottlc]

The "My Blog" section is only displayed if you are logged on as the owner of the blog.

[Razor Blade]

So how do we see?

[scottlc]

I mean the panel at the side with administrative options which is entitled "My Blog". If the blog is not yours, or you are not logged in then everything else is displayed.

[Razor Blade]

OIC. hehe so we get to view it.

Well keep us posted on updates etc. Cant wait to check it out.

[scottlc]

Yeah I will. Just need to implement the reply system and add options to edit/delete posts. I'll upload the Perl source code when finished. It's not of any use yet.

[Regulus]

Looks really good. I was guessing you'd make a blogging system......

[scottlc]

Next update:

Can now view replys, post replys, delete replys, make posts, delete posts. Also I modified the main blog a little to allow for custom link sections on the right.

Still need to add editing of posts, adding of link sections, adding of links and need to do the profile feature.

[Regulus]

Re you planning on having a skinning feature?? That would be cool.

[scottlc]

Not at the moment but could be an upcoming feature. I was thinking of adding support for integration with Invision Power Board and phpBB.

[elachys]

nice one, i've done some work on phpbb if you want a hand with that then i'll be gald to help (php only .... perl doesn't agree with me ) especially the login side of things.

[scottlc]

Well I've never used either Invision Power Board or phpBB. But I installed PHP and Invision on my machine today and it should be easy to read the user id/username/password fields straight from Invision's database. But that isn't really a priority now. I'll get it finished first before adding features such as that.

[elachys]

ok, i'm not really much use then 'cause as i've said, i don't do perl

[scottlc]

You seem to think that Perl is inferior to PHP?

[elachys]

no i just don't like perl. and i don't understand it.
php i semi understand, and since i'm doing my last year exams at school, i don't really have that much time to learn it !
but since i am doing IT and got bored of html php was my next choice since it was installed on the school server already. geeez you really do love your perl don't you !

[scottlc]

Perl is differant to PHP. Unlike PHP, Perl is not only limited to web-based programming. I don't only use Perl for web-based applications. As far as I'm aware, PHP and mod_perl(persistant Apache Perl interpreter) operate at comparable speeds.

On a side note, does anyone know where I can get some good (preferably public domain) smilies?

[elachys]

try smilies.com

[scottlc]

About skinning, my blogging system now uses the excellent HTML::Template module which allows the resulting HTML to be stored and templated from a file external to the script. These template files are 99% HTML and contain a few extra tags for filling in values.

[scottlc]

UPDATE: Over the past two days I've been converting my system to use the excellent CGI::Application and HTML::Template Perl modules. The conversion is nearly complete and the results are looking promising. The most exciting part is that custom HTML templates are now supported.

If you want more information about how the HTML::Template system works, visit:
http://html-template.sourceforge.net/article.html

NOW CONTAINS: 421 lines of code (excluding HTML)

Are the gif emoticons on this site availible free of charge as I have seen them for download on sombody's website:
http://www.cybergifs.com/faces/indexr3.html