User talk:Alphax/20050911-01

Blog software for a simple setup with PHP and MySQL
I've got a website which supports PHP and has a MySQL database, and I want to put some simple blog software on it. What's a good piece of software to use that's easy to install and use? Alphax &tau;&epsilon;&chi; 13:22, 11 September 2005 (UTC)


 * Well, what exactly do you want the software to do? There's plenty of software out there, but which one you should use depends on what you want to be able to do. --Pidgeot (t) (c) (e) 14:03, 11 September 2005 (UTC)


 * WordPress is a decent general-purpose blogging system; though, as Pidgeot said, if you have special needs, there may be something out there that will be more appropriate. Garrett Albright 14:50, 11 September 2005 (UTC)


 * Um, it needs to be free, easy to install (as in: put files in directory), easy to set up, and customisable... oh, and reasonably small... Alphax &tau;&epsilon;&chi; 14:58, 11 September 2005 (UTC)


 * That's not enough to give a good recommendation. What features should be available to you when posting? What features do you want for users who comment upon your posts? (if you want to let them comment, that is!)
 * If you're satisfied with entering everything through PMA (using HTML), no commenting and two pages (one for the latest entries, one for showing all posts), I can change the system I use for newsposts in less than 2 minutes. Anything else, and I'd have to code, so it'd take longer - but in that case, there's probably a usable system already. --Pidgeot (t) (c) (e) 16:11, 11 September 2005 (UTC)


 * I use Blosxom. It is wrritten in Perl and does not need a DBMS —Masatran 10:22:08, 2005-09-12 (UTC)


 * Okay, I've gone for WordPress... see what happens... Alphax &tau;&epsilon;&chi; 11:06, 12 September 2005 (UTC)


 * I've been using WordPress and without having prior of CSS or PHP I managed to poke around and adjust the layout in a way I liked. I had no problems posting to it, I'm very impressed with it thus far. It's also served by a manual in the form of a wiki at http://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page which should look rather familiar ;o) (though it's organisation leaves a lot to be desired at the moment, I feel). --bodnotbod 02:51, 19 September 2005 (UTC)