[Release] Jarida (Blogging Software)

The Architect Joined: 27 May 2002 Posts: 508 Location: UK

Hi,

I have released Jarida (Blogging Software) Version 1.0, hosted at Sourceforge - http://sourceforge.net/projects/jarida and listed at Freshmeat - http://freshmeat.net/projects/jarida/.

The Feature Set is as follows

News/Article Publishing

- Password protected admin interface for adding news articles, with clickable smilies and uploadable photos. Editing and Deleting of articles can also be done through the admin interface.

- Articles are viewed in the front page with attached photos, visitors can comment on the posted articles. Past articles available in the Archive.

Image Gallery

- Images can be uploaded in the admin panel, png, gif, jpg, bmp file images are supported (provided you have GD2 libraries in your PHP installation, PHP version > 3.x)

- Thumbnails are generated for view in the gallery page, an image can be viewed in full by clicking on the corresponding thumbnail.

- Visitors can make comments on the Photos in your Gallery.

Translations

- The release includes two languages English and Swahili, see the corresponding files in "/language/" directory.

- Other languages can be added simply by translating "/language/english.php" into the corresponging language and save it as "/language/language_name.php"

Theme/Templating

- I have implemented a templating system using Smarty templates, therefore main code is seperated from the templates. The release includes the "Default" theme located in "/templates/default/".

- To develop a new Theme for this software simply take the files in the "/templates/default/" folder, make corresponding changes and save to a folder "/templates/theme_name/"

The project Home Page is located here

http://www.bongoland.net/projects/jarida/index.php

You can preview a demo of the software there as well since the project home page itself is running the software.

To download packages, go to the project's file release section at Sourceforge.net

Note
This software is released in a "Beta" stage, i.e I expect it to have some minor bugs. I would deeply appreciate people downloading and testing this software and reporting their experiences and problems in this forum.

Below is the attached "README.txt" that is included in the release package.

Quote:

/***************************************************************************

* Jarida Blog

* -------------------

* begin : October 2005

* copyright : (C) 2005 Haddad Said

* email : haddad.said@gmail.com

*

*

*

*

***************************************************************************/

/***************************************************************************

*

* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify

* it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by

* the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or

* (at your option) any later version.

*

***************************************************************************/

Jarida Blog

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This is a personal blogging software which you can use to run your very own personal blog.It is built on PHP and MySQL. So you need to have PHP of at least version 4.3 upwards and a MySQL (Version > 3.2.x) database for this application to work. Also to make use of the Photo Gallery thumbnail generation features you need to have the GD2 library modules enabled in your installation of PHP.

Features:

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* Blogging (artcile, news) with photos and comments

* Easy Installation

* CSS Design

* XHTML Compliant Code

* Image Gallery, with comments

* Admin interface for managing smilies (used in comments)

* Admin interface for managing Bad Word List

* Templating system.

* Multi Language support. This will allow translation of the CMS to multiple languages, Kiswahili being one of them of course.

* Banning users by IP addresses.

This application is released under the GPL license.

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt

Requirements:

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* PHP > version 4.3

* MySQL Database > version 3.2

* Web Server (e.g. Apache, IIS)

How To Install:

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Extract all files from the archive while maintaining

the directory structure. Upload to your host by ftp. Make sure you set the permissions of the following to globally writable (So that they can be writable by the webserver application):

* File /include/config.php

* Folder /install

* Folder /templates

* Folder /img/upload

* Folder /img/smilies

For Windows Systems this is not an issue, for Unix type of systems, you need

to chmod the Folder or File to 777.

Observe that images should be uploaded in binary mode while text and .php

files should be uploaded in ascii mode. Most ftp clients are clever

enough to handle this.

Then you can run the Installer If you uploaded the files to

http://yourblog.com/ then run

http://yourblog.com/install

This will ask you for your database details which you need to know, it will

then create the required tables and create the file config.php.

If you cannot run the installer, you will need to edit the file

config.php then you need to dump the file /install/create.sql into your MySQL database.

If you need further assistance, please visit our forums and ask for help.

http://www.bongoland.net/viewforum.php?f=5

Thanks

I hope you enjoy this software.

Comments and feature requests are welcome on the above mentioned

forums.