A "digg like" news submitter/voter (non-hierarchical editorial control for you wordphiles) created using industry standard PHP and MySQL.
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CHANGE LOG Alpha 1 - Initial Release Alpha 1.1 - Fixed bug in login screen that prevented painting - added login link to index.php if not already logged in; if logged in added "Welcome <username>" Alpha 2 - Added Ability to add comments. - Modified database so that voting was its own table - Added Admin page (admin.php), currently just manages topics and topic groups - Added ability to filter by keywords and by topics - modularized the code to allow for topics and user name to be put in at any location. Alpha 3 I made fixes/enhancements/changes to literally every single file in the release Alpha 4 - Changes to index.php to allow for AJAX based control of voting and display of search results - Added two javascript files. One from http://prototype.conio.net/ and another from http://www.w3schools.com/ajax/ajax_source.asp (which I modified somewhat) - Fixed a bug in the comments.php script - Added RSS support Alpha 4.1 - Made a fix to index.php so the search function works - Made a change to index.php expanding out the size of the article boxes to 95% instead of the fixed 300 that it previously was - Made a change to rss.php so that the url refrences now go through Loudle instead of directly to the page. Alpha 4.2 - Improved the basic loudle template - Minor tweaks to index.php show_topics.php, and the files that make up the search function to improve CSS support STILL TO DO - I have yet to code the "big difference" that will separate Loudle from Digg and Reddit. This likely won't be implemented until the first week of next year. - Drop the tables and use CSS type positioning. For that matter the dynamically output code needs to better support CSS in general - Create a couple of Loudle templates for use by other downloaders - Improve the administrative capabilities - Allow for the database to have something prepended to the table names to make installation in a multiple software environment less problematic - Error handling needs to be implemented - Better coding for security to prevent hackers - Pulling the ranking algorithm code into its own section to allow for easier changing - Implementing the capture of IP addresses for each log in to improve the ranking algorithm and to implement code to prevent "gaming" of the system.
Alpha 4.1 was released today marking the first totally bug free release (at least I *THINK* it's bug free). Now that doesn't mean there aren't things still to do, but the thing functions now.
Alpha 4 is now out. Almost everything works. There is only 1 known bug in this release (links from the search function don't work) and only one more major piece of functionality (RSS feed links will go through Loudle instead of directly to the page that was submitted) Both of those things will likely be done in a day or so and alpha 4.1 will be out december 27th
Alpha 2 of the code is now out and includes many important features that were missing from the alpha 1 releases. That said, this is still alpha code. I still don't have error trapping in the code nor do I have any of several security features (such as stripping out html markup in submitted text) Once again, please let me know if you intend to give this a look and I'll help you get it up and running on your site.
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