Articulate

[wctaiwan]

Update: New version released. It is... quite a bit better, in my opinion. It has been completely rewritten, and much of what I've said of the first version posted here isn't true anymore. Please help me test it and give me any feedback you might have, thanks!

Articulate alpha 6

Alpha 6 - 13 July 2009

- Documentation added

- Articulate is now open source software licensed under a BSD-style licence

Alpha 5 - 12 July 2009

- Complete rewrite

- Regression: No more pages. May or may not be added back future versions

- Post generation is now much more efficient and selective

- Error handling added

- Index and archive generation separated from templates

- Update script now has much prettier output

- All instances of ereg() replaced with preg_match() (Thanks Mike)

- The code is in general a lot better

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Hey guys,

I've created a simple semi-dynamic, PHP-based blog / site script called Articulate. Basically, it converts text files you've edited into HTML pages. It has a very crude template system, and supports Markdown for formatting content input.

There are currently some pretty major issues with the script. To quote my own words:

Articulate is currently an extremely primitive script. It has no error handling and is therefore prone to break when the conditions do not meet its expectations. Its code is buggy and messy in many parts and contains quite a bit of hacks. It may be updated much more frequently (and urgently) than would normally be desired in a production environment.

I do not recommend that you use it to run your website. Rather, it is available for the interest of the curious and the adventurous.

With that said, I ask you all to try out the script and give me any feedback you might have. (If you want to help me write the code to fix some of the things below, you're free to do so too. :p)

Thanks!

Download Articulate

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- Right now, posts made on the same day are ordered in reverse alphabetical order. This should be changed (won't fix, for now)

- Lack of proper output in update/

- The templates for Index and Archive pages are terrible

- Lack of basic error handling

- As opposed to regenerating the entire website every time the site is updated (as it is now), the site should only update new / changed content and offer complete regeneration as an option

- General code cleanup

Edited July 13, 2009 by wctaiwan

[wctaiwan]

Bump, since I updated the software (and the first post) and would like some feedback on the new version (notice the popularity of the last version... think I scared some people off, heh).

Mods, if this is not allowed, please remove this post. Thanks.

wctaiwan

[skelly831]

Hi wctaiwan, nice project! I tried it and works as expected, I'm going to design a template based on my current blog on tumblr and write a few posts to see how it suits my workflow. So far I love that you chose Markdown, I'm very used to it's syntax so that's a big plus. I'll post again here if I have any questions or notice anything weird.

Cheers :)

[skelly831]

Just noticed that release 7 was published a few days ago, thank you for the update wctaiwan :)