Saturday, 6 May 2006
Simple PHP Blog and some feedback
Since not all hosts have Java available, in fact let's face it, unless you're willing to pay the premium, you ain't gittin' a caffeinated server.
So I turn to PHP often for work that I might be doing for someone. This does not make me a PHP evangelist, far from it. I'm a Java bigot. Scripting languages, with their loose typing and weak OO, just make me cringe.
Anyway, I mentioned Simple PHP Blog back in January (damn!). I continue to play with it, and have encountered another problem with it. This bug further highlights a couple of things that think the author/lead should take away and run with before going “1.0” (currently sphpblog is 0.4.7.2). Specifically, Simple PHP Blog could learn these lessons from blojsom (and by extension bloxsom):
- Fix the “data format”.
Pipe delimited is so wrong. A line delimited format would be far superior, self-documenting and much more human readable. A string of pipes quickly becomes jibberish. - Build categories on the filesystem with folders/directories
I can't possibly believe the pipe delimited, text formatted, text list is scalable.
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