Blogging Community

I am trying to start a(nother) blogging community site. I plan on doing this
in PHP as ths is the language that i am most familiar with but i cant seem
to find any bloggin scripts that do the job! can anyone recommend and gpl
scripts that allow multiple users to make thier own blogs? it would also be
nice if it could use mod_rewrite and have templates but i can add that in
later if nessisary.

i have looked at b2++. the way it works for multi users is just wrong for a
large site

if you have any suggestions can you let me know please?

thanks in advance

Steve

"Steve Berryman" <admin@object4.co.uk> wrote in message
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>
> I am trying to start a(nother) blogging community site. I plan
> on doing this in PHP as ths is the language that i am most familiar
> with but i cant seem to find any bloggin scripts that do the job!
> can anyone recommend and gpl scripts that allow multiple users
> to make thier own blogs? it would also be nice if it could use
> mod_rewrite and have templates but i can add that in later if
> nessisary.
>
> i have looked at b2++. the way it works for multi users is just
> wrong for a large site
>
> if you have any suggestions can you let me know please?

OK, first of all, why do you have to have blogging software that
should work in a way appropriate for a large site? You are NOT
trying to start a large site; rather, you want a collection of
relatively small sites. Why not develop accordingly?

So here's my suggestion:

1. Pick a lightweight, but nice enough personal blog. My favorite
is Blog by Jonathan Beckett available from the author at
http://www.pluggedout.com/blog/. The package is small (about
50k, including images and GPL license), but functional.
2. Write a fully-automated installation routine for this blog, with
automatic creation of directory and database structures, as well
as generation of customized configuration file.
3. Let each user have their own blog site relatively independent
of other blog sites hosted on the same server.

So let's say your blogging community is hosted at www.bc.org (bc,
of course, is short for "blogging community"). A new user comes
in and wants to set up a blog. The registration script asks the
user for a desired login name and password. Let's say the user
chose login name 'newblogger' which is available, so the installation
program:

1. Creates a new directory, www.bc.org/newblogger.
2. Installs Blog (or another lightweight blogging package)
in that directory. Color/stylesheet customization can
be done here, too.
3. Creates a new database called 'newblogger' and requisite
empty tables in it. Another possibility is to create a
group of prefixed (newblogger_*) tables in a pre-existing
database designated for that purpose.
4. Sends the user an e-mail confirmation of registration.

As a result, you would have a collection of blog sites with each
running a separate copy of a lightweight blogging package.

Cheers,
NC

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> > if you have any suggestions can you let me know please?
>
> OK, first of all, why do you have to have blogging software that
> should work in a way appropriate for a large site? You are NOT
> trying to start a large site; rather, you want a collection of
> relatively small sites. Why not develop accordingly?
>
> So here's my suggestion:
>
> 1. Pick a lightweight, but nice enough personal blog. My favorite
> is Blog by Jonathan Beckett available from the author at
> http://www.pluggedout.com/blog/. The package is small (about
> 50k, including images and GPL license), but functional.
> 2. Write a fully-automated installation routine for this blog, with
> automatic creation of directory and database structures, as well
> as generation of customized configuration file.
> 3. Let each user have their own blog site relatively independent
> of other blog sites hosted on the same server.
>
> So let's say your blogging community is hosted at www.bc.org (bc,
> of course, is short for "blogging community"). A new user comes
> in and wants to set up a blog. The registration script asks the
> user for a desired login name and password. Let's say the user
> chose login name 'newblogger' which is available, so the installation
> program:
>
> 1. Creates a new directory, www.bc.org/newblogger.
> 2. Installs Blog (or another lightweight blogging package)
> in that directory. Color/stylesheet customization can
> be done here, too.
> 3. Creates a new database called 'newblogger' and requisite
> empty tables in it. Another possibility is to create a
> group of prefixed (newblogger_*) tables in a pre-existing
> database designated for that purpose.
> 4. Sends the user an e-mail confirmation of registration.
>
> As a result, you would have a collection of blog sites with each
> running a separate copy of a lightweight blogging package.

Just wanted to let you guys know that I'm almost finished developing an
automated installation script for the Blog software that this post speaks
about and should have it done by the end of the weekend. Right now, I'll be
releasing it for Linux only but I will also be working on a Windows version
in the near future. If you want a copy, email me and I'll send it to you as
soon as it's done. I'll also post it at
http://www.safferconsulting.com/blog/bloginstall.rar for those of you who
want to get it there. Should be available by late Sunday.


Anthony Saffer,
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