Lightning Notes Files

LIGHTNING NOTES

A simple logging system, created as a proof-of-concept. Fully standards compliant and
accessible, it is designed to quickly set up a functional and structured site to conveniently
track related and unrelated items.

SET UP

Installation starts with filling in the root and path, as well as the author's name and
e-mail address, a picture and description in the /admin/config.php file. The information
is stored in a php array.

Use .htaccess or similar to secure the /admin/ directory.

POSTING

The entry form lives at /admin/enter.php. Choose an input language, decide whether to draft
or publish and if this is a post or a feature article with an associated html file.

LAYOUT

Liquid. Styleswitching to either light or distinctive dark red scheme.

FEATURES

Automatic Archiving
    Every entry is assigned a unique id.
XML-Powered
    Entries are saved as xml-data, in one single xml-file;
    CON: constrained by size of file,
    PRO: easy search and manipulation, dynamic sort, no static html-pages necessary.
Automatic RDF
    Every entry with <status>published</status> is automatically indexed in a standard rdf 1.0
    file, available for syndication.
Outline Processor Markup Language
    Parsing OPML-files, shown on the front page as a definition list.
Textinput
    Textile
Search
    Substring in title, body, keywordsÉ
Cross Referencing
    Related entries are shown with individual articles.

BLOG SOFTWARE CHART

URL of the home page for the software
    Sample install: http://alexanderbecker.net/lightningnotes/
Current version number of the software in production
    As of 2004-06-14 | 2011-11-25: 0.1
License requirements for the installation of the software
    GPL, see below
Languages supported by the administration interface of the system
    en-US
System's administrative interface localized based on individual user settings?
    No
Maximum number of weblogs (channel of postings) that the system can manage through a single
    installed administrative interface
    1
Minimum requirements of the server on which the software is to be installed
    PHP 4.1
Primary source of drawn data for the transmission of site pages
    XML-Data-File -- When the site is served to requesting browsers, the data for the page is
    pulled from a flat file and inserted into a template for delivery.
Methods for ordering the display of posts on the site
    descending -- Posts can be ordered in descending chronological order, with the newest
    at the top
    Category -- Posts can be ordered by the category in which they appear.
Categories
    Allows posts to be classified by categories: the system allows posts to be classified by
    multiple categories -- A post can be assigned to any number of categories.
Subcategories
    Allows subcategories to be created in a hierarchy
Keywords
    Allows keywords to be associated by a post author to each post, and also allows the system
    to return posts that are related by these keywords via a keyword search
Default Post Fields
    TITLE, BODY, EXTENDED BODY, KEYWORDS, EXCERPT
Post Editor
    Textile -- The system accepts post data from a &lt;textarea&gt; and processes it through
    Textile. There may be scripted controls that automatically apply Textile markup.
    http://www.textism.com/tools/textile/index.html
    HTML -- plain entry
Draft mode
    Supports submitting unpublished drafts of posts
Bookmarklets
    Search, Post
Versions of RSS the system produces for syndication
    RSS 1.0 (RDF)
Template Storage
    PHP File -- The templates are stored as PHP files and are executed. The code built into 
    the template files inserts post data for display.
Template Tagging
    PHP functions -- The template contains actual PHP functions that execute to insert post 
    data at that point.
Users
    Single user -- There is only one user account that can log in to the software control 
    panel.
User profile
    Simple -- The system includes some amount of pre-defined user profile information that 
    can be edited by the user
Skin Switch
    Incorporates a method by which users can change between styles of display of the site. 
    This may be by CSS or by template selection.
Linkroll
    OPML -- the system can maintain a list of links to external sites

LEGAL

Lightning Notes version 0.1
Copyright 2003 - 2011
by Alexander Becker ab@alexanderbecker.net

http://sourceforge.net/projects/lightningnotes/

Copyright Notice:
This program is licensed under the GPL http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html

Disclaimer:
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR 
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS 
FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT 
HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN 
ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION 
WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.