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Blog software update: commenting system

Filed under: My software by Hari
Posted on Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 11:03 IST (last updated: Thu, Oct 30, 2008 @ 07:20 IST)

It is with great satisfaction that I announce the completion of the article display and commenting system for my blog software in development.

Here is a list of entry-specific features:

Commenting is a key component of a blogging system and I've implemented these comment-specific features: Since comments are the lifeblood of a blog, I think I have approached it right. I might still need to implement a few more anti-spam measures, but that will come after intensive testing at a later stage.

Having crossed this milestone, the implementation of category-specific and date-based archives will be relatively smooth. :)

4 comment(s)

  1. I have an extremely stupid question. I know you're using Smarty for the templating, but what are using as a database extraction layer?

    Comment by RT Cunningham (visitor) on Fri, Oct 10, 2008 @ 18:47 IST #
  2. RT, I'm not using Smarty actually. I stopped using a templating system because I find that it actually impedes my coding and distracts from the program logic.

    For database, I'm using PDO with the SQLite 3 driver.

    Comment by hari (blog owner) on Fri, Oct 10, 2008 @ 21:00 IST #
  3. Ah, ok. I was going to mention some limitations to Smarty and I see you've already found them. I find it's much too rigid.

    I'm actually working on a MySQL database project and I'm looking for a good abstraction (not extraction, duh) layer. I don't like what I've found so far. I may have to write custom functions, which isn't pleasant either.

    Comment by RT Cunningham (visitor) on Fri, Oct 10, 2008 @ 21:11 IST #
  4. PDO seems to be a good option, as it is fully object oriented. But the downside is that PDO is only supported under PHP 5 and above.

    Comment by hari (blog owner) on Fri, Oct 10, 2008 @ 22:03 IST #

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