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Screens of my blog software in development

Filed under: My software by Hari
Posted on Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 21:54 IST (last updated: Wed, Oct 29, 2008 @ 22:45 IST)

Without giving too much away (especially the name I have in mind) I have decided to release a few pre-alpha screenshots of my (top secret :P) blog software in development if only to motivate myself to complete it in a reasonably short duration.

I'm finding that splitting the PHP code into many separate files (especially to separate forms from their actions, not using a templates system and avoiding predefined constants for every single message string is saving a lot of time.

Admin panel home

Admin panel home

Blog configuration settings:

Blog settings

Categories management

Manage categories

Create/update a category

Create/Update category

Delete category

Delete category

6 comment(s)

  1. Nice - it looks clean and very functional.

    Comment by Ray (visitor) on Mon, Sep 22, 2008 @ 23:35 IST #
  2. And I'm happy to announce the servers should have full support for SQLite3 with sqlite3 extension for PHP5 created as a separate package for Slackware. Wheee!

    Comment by drew (visitor) on Tue, Sep 23, 2008 @ 00:08 IST #
  3. Thanks, Ray. :)

    Drew, congratulations! I'm very grateful for you support in this issue and hopefully everything should work fine. I'll definitely test it out at some point. :)

    Comment by hari (blog owner) on Tue, Sep 23, 2008 @ 08:07 IST #
  4. Oh it better work or I'm gonna start pulling my hair out. But running a phpinfo script even displays full SQLite3 support now so we should be good.

    Comment by drew (visitor) on Tue, Sep 23, 2008 @ 09:00 IST #
  5. You sent me the screen shots, but I swear I can't find them again. I need to clean out my folders -- I probably have over 10,000 messages stored.

    I'm working on a similar project, but with text files versus any kind of database. I've shelved it for now. I have other mice to fry.

    Comment by RT Cunningham (visitor) on Thu, Oct 2, 2008 @ 18:10 IST #
  6. RT, yes, I remember your blog software.

    I actually use SQLite, which is basically a very lightweight embeddable database system which doesn't require complex server configurations.

    SQLite is a simple 500 KB library and since it's written in C, it's blazing fast for medium to large databases (though it might slow down for really HUGE databases which MySQL will scale better for).

    SQLite is ideally suited for a blog platform for 99% of us.

    Comment by hari (blog owner) on Thu, Oct 2, 2008 @ 18:18 IST #

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