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I'm looking to set up a blog.
There are many "what's the best blogging engine?" questions on SO, but none totally focused on code quality.
I have done a lot of work with WordPress, and it's the #1 solution for many cases, no question. Its extendability and versatility are unmatched. But the code base is a mess, it has a huge memory footprint and extending it often isn't fun. Also, the back-end feels extremely slow on slightly older machines and becomes bearable only with Google Gears IMO.
I'm getting less and less comfortable using it.
For that reason, I am looking for recommendations for a PHP-based blogging engine that is
Simple, slim, and minimalistic in build
Has good, structured, clean code, uses PHP5
Has blogging basics: Tags, Categories, Comments
Doesn't have to look good but needs to output good, semantic HTML / CSS so I can customize
Supports some sort of spam control (Captcha and / or Akismet would be nice)
I don't care whether it's database or file based
Optional:
An API would be nice but is not mandatory
Has a plugin system for extensions
Wet dream:
Markdown support
Not sure exactly how many things it knocks off your list but I think Habari is worth a look.
They host a demo you can mess with if you want to check it out quickly.
I would take a look at Vanilla. Mainly it's a forums script, but it also has blogging features.
I has all the things you mentioned. Except is looks good enough:
the entire code is about 500k
it's well structured(MVC and well done), it supports extensions
I'm not sure about tags(for sure they are supported by extensions if not in the core)
looks good, have template mechanism, a few nice themes are available
there are extensions to prevent spam, I don't know if an aksimet extension is available.
it's mysql based
Optional:
- don't know what you mean by apis
- plugins and themes supported
Wet dream should be supported, at least in theory(on my old vanilla forum it worked in a manner I didn't want to, the code was html encoded, so html tags were not supported, including links, however i've seen them working on other forums), if not extensions could solve the problem.
Regarding the spam control and user comments posting you should use 2-3 plugins(Yes plugins are supported and are called Extensions).
There's a huge number of blogging engines written in PHP - all slightly different. For my purposes, I found Serendipity to be the most apposite.
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I am a new php Developer. As I surf the web learning php, I encountered a problem.
I was going to create a secure login system for my site, with these tutorials [1], [2], but suddenly, I saw this Q&A here which recommend to use third parties framework for login system.
So, now is it really good recommendation? if so, what is the best third party framework to start creating a secure login system?
Thanks in advance.
It is certainly a good idea to use a secure login system developed by someone who is an expert in security, and a framework which has been around a while and is stable is certainly a good choice, rather than implementing yourself if your are a novice programmer.
Now, are you going to develop a production site? Then I would rely on a third party.
However, implementing yourself might be a good teaching exercise, if you are currently learning and not deploying a production site.
Having said that, many bigger php frameworks offer secure login functionality.
Depends what you are trying to do, if you have any experience at all, if there are folks near you who have experience in any framework, etc.
php frameworks:
Yii
symfony
codeigniter
Zend
etc.
It all depends what you are doing.
If it is ultra-mega-security-needing page, then it isn't such a bad idea to use third party framework. As stated in the link by one of the commenter, if you use one, use trusted and known ones, such as google, facebook, etc. It all depends what you want to do exactly. For example, if you want to implement only commenting some specific topic, you can also use disqus, what almost does everything for you. There are also many login libraries, with what you can do login system.
One smart man once said (I have no idea who): There is no point to invent bicycle, if it already exist :).
Now, if there is more specific reasons, why you need to do login in (Like you want to create admin panel and other stuff like that), then making your own custom login isn't bad idea. It is definitely hard, but worth a shot. Prepare to fail plenty of times, but once you get hang of it, it will be worth it.
Do not follow one tutorial though, google around, find different tutorials, solutions and tips. Once you have gathered information, you can try to make your own version, as secure as possible, following different recommendations and such.
It all comes to, what you want to do, for what reason you need to do login system.
Sentry is a framework agnostic libary to handle this in your own application.
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Can anyone please guide me which kind of certifications are available for php and seo? I am a php developer as well as a Lecturer. And i want to teach and guide my students. I know symfony and wordpress. But other then this what kind of certification is in demand in current/future market. I am ready to learn new technology even.
No certifications are or should be needed. As for new tech, node.js is very used right now in the market. If you're a javascript developer and want to learn node.js, you will have a very easy time. Note that node.js is commonly used with nosql databases, such as mongodb, couchdb and quite a few more.
If you haven't tried those technologies, it might be a good time to start learning/using/mastering them. Also, I recommend you start using git if you haven't. You can do wonders with git.
If you work as a front-end developer once in a while, I extremely urge you to get right on Grunt.js, since Grunt is extremely useful for a numerous tasks in front end, and it can at some extent, be used for backend, including some php tasks.
NodeJS website: http://nodejs.org/
mongodb website: http://www.mongodb.org/
couchdb website: http://couchdb.apache.org/
git website: http://git-scm.com/
grunt website: http://gruntjs.com/
I think that's enough for you to get busy for a while. Hope it helps.
Personally I don't think any certification is needed, especially in the programming industry (even for lecturesr). It's more important to show that you have been involved with important projects. Working experience with bigger companies or open-source projects will prove your expertise.
With that being said, there is one from W3C:
http://www.w3schools.com/cert/cert_php.asp
Another one is mentioned by Zarazthuzatra, ZCE:
http://www.zend.com/en/services/certification/
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The site that I am working on creates user sites like (domain.com/user). We want to show the users some web traffic statistics relevant to their own site, like how many views from facebook, twitter etc. Can you guys please recommend a solution which we can integrate into our PHP/MySQL based system? Or is it better to build one inside the system ourselves using mangoDB or something similar?
Any pointers would be appreciated.
For preference, unless you are using SSL, I would recommend implementing the sites as user.example.com/ rather than domain.com/user - it's much easier to configure your webserver to write seeprate log files / most off the shelf web analytics packages will split a log file from multiple vhosts into reports per vhost.
There's lots of tools available off the shelf - piwik, awstats, webalizer, analog
Google analytics is amazingly good value compared to most commercial offerings.
If you need to persist with your current naming schema, then consider using a too which relies on page tagging rather than log analysis.
Or is it better to build one inside the system ourselves using mangoDB or something similar?
I'd suggest that's very much a last resort - if you can't find what you need, then I'd recommend forking one of the open source packages.
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I have quite a few years experience of developing PHP web applications, and have recently started to delve into Python as well. Recently I've been interested in getting into desktop applications as well, but have absolutely no experience in that area. I've seen very little written about PHP-gtk and wonder whether it's really a good area to get stuck in to.
What I'm really looking for is something that will allow me to quite quickly develop some decent small/medium sized apps, and be able to deploy them in Linux and Windows. Something in Python or PHP would be great (but I'd be happy to learn something else if it has big advantages).
What do you guys recommend?
Thanks
Building applications in PHP with GTK is possible to create client-side cross-platform applications, but I don't necessarily think it's the optimal choice for GUI development...
Here are some links:
http://gtk.php.net
http://www.cweiske.de/phpgtk.htm
Gnope.org
kksou
Python and Java are both excellent for working on both Linux and Windows environment. They are generally hassle-free as long as you're not doing any OS specific type of work. Python for creating desktop apps is fairly simple and easy to learn as well if you're coming from a PHP background, especially if you're used to doing object oriented PHP.
Why would you like to develop a desktop app in php??
Get yourself a descent programming environment (c/java/c#/) instead of abusing php
especially with c# and java you get pretty quick very nice results. And both are cross platform (although java is easier for cross platform stuff).
C(++) in combination with QT or GTK is also possible, but there the results appear slower
Well its too late to answer i guess but still for the sake of information may I suggest Open Application Platform (OAP) as a possible solution. OAP allows for PHP/MySQL applications to be distributed as installable Windows(tm) applications.
I stumbled upon it while I was looking for porting a PHP app to desktop and found this. Worked great for me. No extra tags for window creations like in winbinder etc.
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I am thinking of starting a blog, which I would like integrated into my existing website. I come back empty handed from googling for a comparison of blogging software written in PHP.
My requirements:
Simple but not rudimentary (not a result of a 15 minute CodeIgniter tutorial)
Quality source code (I'd like to be able to learn from it and maybe change it)
Prefer PHP5 over PHP4
Work with MySQL
Easy to integrate into an existing website (I don't want it to be a separate application with a different look and feel under a "blog" directory
Run under safe_mode
Built-in or easy-to-add source code highlighting would be a plus.
Many programmers use Serendipity.
Wordpress' code base is really a mess. A bunch of functions operating on global variables.
I don't ask you to simply trust me, or anyone else. Go look yourself at the code!
And it's written in php4 style, so definitely not what the topic starter asked for.
Wordpress definitely... Great support, many plugins, many themes, etc.
why not try with wordpress ? I think really fit in all your points
Update:
if you still dont like wordpress I can recommend Mephisto which was wrote in ruby. I have tried it but for me was a pain in the ass. Simply wasn't intuitive for me as user.
Wordpress, no question.
You can always have the best with Wordpress + Host it on your own to utilize all of it's great features.