Blogging Pubbitch

I've spent the past couple of days hacking together a simple templating system for my blogging tool and that now works for me, so without further dithering I've uploaded the first release to here, ready for you to have a play with. Be warned that it undoubtedly has rough edges, is lacking functionality, has dead code all over the shop and all the other gumph and pitfalls which goes for a release straight from a CVS tree.

It's not been tested completely on Windows, but it should work on any system using PHP 4+, though I'd recommend PHP 4.3 or above, because that's what I use :) Installation is simple: just unpack into your public_html folder (or equivalent) read the README and edit "config.inc" If you're concerned about security, the only thing that really needs to be publically accessible is the "blog.php" page, the rest can be hidden away out of public reach but on the PHP include path.

The next stage is to add an RSS flavour so that I can read entries in my favourite aggregator, and to flesh out the Entry interface to include such minimal considerations as the date published --- I told you that this was basic. That, and finish of the Entry subclass that reads Moveable Type back ups. Once those are done, I'll start eating my own dogfood.

Download Blog4PHP Some day, I'll have a fancy name for it. Any suggestions?