Pixel takes a different approach to blogging. Rather than using a database or an admin or anything that leads to the potential of opening further avenues of attack for a hacker, it uses text files, held in /posts/.
Any text file dropped in /posts/ is parsed and read into the post array, then fed out to the user when they hit the domain, you also get a permalink to the post at a similar location to the physical one.
To install, simply drop all of Pixel's files into a directory or root of your choice. Open up pxl/pixel.php and change some configuration settings (namely, give your blog a name, provide a description, your name, whether htaccess is supported on your server etc). That's it!
To create a post open up your favourite text editor and create a file with this structure:
title: My Great Post
author: Thomas Chatting
date: 27/06/2010
Some HTML for the main post!
Then save this text file in the following way:
2010-06-27-my-great-post.txt
Where the date must be YYYY-MM-DD and match the date in the post itself, author is an optional attribute and will default to the one provided in the configuration file. Then leave a clear line and begin coding in HTML or plain text! Then drop this file in /posts/ and voila! You've created your first Pixel post, if you followed the instructions above you could see it at both Pixel's root and /posts/2010/06/27/my-great-post
You can draft out a post you want to hold out on publishing until a later date by simply setting the post date (in the file itself and the filename) to a date later on that the current one.
An Atom 2.0 feed is provided and can be accessed at /atom.php.
I have provided a quick and dirty index page for you to look at and tinker with, just be aware that if you create your own with your own style that you must include the pixel file, you can then include content, page names etc.
- Provide an upload interface for posts
- Add Disqus integration out of the box
- Add validation to the text parser
- Add categories for posts ‡
- Add pages support ‡
‡ Feature will be added subject to not hindering performance
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