[Phpblosxom-devel] Introduction, offer, and need advice

[Jim N. <ji...@xm...>]

Hi, all

I've been working with blosxom (2.0) for a while, and am fairly familiar
with the concepts. I run a few MovableType sites as well, so I have a pretty
good understanding of that.

My "day job" involves coding in Java, Perl and PHP.

I'm giving up on blosxom largely because I can't get mod_rewrite to work
correctly with my ISP, and I'd rather have /index.php/foo than
/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/foo in my URLs.


For php-blosxom to be useful to me, I need the following:

- support for meta-creation-date: <date> fields in the "header" of posts.
From what I see, getting this to work will involve patching php-blosxom to
place the logic for sorting entries by date AFTER the "raw_entry" callback
is invoked, unless there's some way for a plugin providing that callback to
manipulate the list of dates.

- A port of textile2. Most of my site is done with textile.

In good ADHD style, since these are essential, I've chosen to begin my work
on something else. :) That is this: I want to add support for blosxom themes
(a la the themes plugin) that will let us keep all of the theme HTML
elements in a single file. (it makes them easier to edit and deploy).

I'd also like to work on getting the category plugin to produce a variety of
category trees (vertical, indented, maybe even javascript-menu style).

= Jim

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