Project: RetroLog , the minimalistic blog project

I’ve this project in my mind, and roughly projected it on paper, with some php/mysql snippets. The whole idea is to make a REAL blog community with pure server-side programming. minimalistic so it can be used by anyone,and most important anywhere.

The key features will be:

  • simple registration
  • easy setup (no advanced setting for the blog,we have to keep it simple and easy to use.)
  • integrated webring for dinamic linking through the hosted websites
  • Direct advertising possibilities (without an intermediate,you can directly sell ad-space 125×125 boxes )
  • Comments with anti-spam and mail notification

Like said before the idea is to avoid as many javascript as possible, no fancy ajax that will only cause problems in the future.

If you think this project could be really nice and have something to say about it, leave a comment or if you think you are a super genius in PHP/MySQL then you should definitely contact me and maybe we can work on this project together.

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Wildcard DNS and PHP

I’ve always been wondering how it works, and I’ve finally found out how it does. I will give a few simple examples how it works and how you can use it.

Step one : Make sure your server/domain allows wildcard DNS and that it is enabled on your server/domain.

Step two : Lets create a file called index.php

now before I continue with step 3, it is nice to know that the wildcard subdomain forwards to the index.php on the main domain so all the following domain pont to the same file.

  • foo.domain.com
  • bar.domain.com
  • foobar.domain.com

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Dashr.org an old project revives

okay let me explain that title, Last winter I had a mayor computer crash and due to that I lost all the projects I was working on.Today I was cleaning a shelf near my desk and found an cd, like always I had nothing written on it, so I decided to check its data, surprisingly a part of the project was here (about 50-60%). With an big smile and a few beers I started to test the code, and had to re-build the whole database because I couldn’t find it on the cd. (some parts are still missing but it works).

Dashr.org, it is an ‘invitation-only’ public feed reader. HUH?  meaning that you can create an page with feeds accessible from everywhere, this type of website now already exist in tenfold. but I had the idea over 1 year ago so it was original , now I just want to finish what I have,and hope someone will be happy with it.

This week I’ll try to get more functions active and clean-up some coding.

Maybe I start inviting some friends from Chawlk.com, some testing is necessary because I have no idea what errors are present.

here is an example of what a page is going to look like : http://dashr.org/user/sebastiano .

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