Bluetrait

I'm slowing building up a collection of plugins I've written for Bluetrait...

I've made public the search plugin I wrote for this site.

It can be downloaded from here and is under the "Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 License".

The plugin requires Bluetrait 2 and MySQL.

It probably won't be any use to anyone as Bluetrait 2 isn't even in Beta yet ;)

Well I can finally edit posts :)

So I'm slowing going through my old posts and adding some categories to them.

I need to add some more categories but I can't do that yet :p

I've released another Bluetrait 2 code example

After hacking my ipod, I installed Apache and PHP. I was successfully able to install the sqlite version of Bluetrait 2 onto my ipod!

There were some small bugs, I haven't yet pin-pointed them down yet but I believe it may have been due to the setup of PHP.

So yeah that was pretty cool, pointless but cool :)

I've re-enabled commenting as I've written in spam filtering. There might be a few issues, but we'll see how it goes.

This site has just been upgraded to Bluetrait 2. I expect that there will be a few errors.

I may need to disable comments as I haven't written any spam filtering yet!

RSS feeds should be better as they now use the pubDate tag (meaning you shouldn't be seeing the same post over and over again in your rss reader).

Categories should work too, plus you can append /rss/ to the end of a category link and it should display just the posts for that category.

And there is a little bit of jquery used for the "Click for comments help." section.

If you find any bugs please send me an email via the contact link.

Just a quick development update.

The following is a list of the major changes that have happened since Code Example 1:

• Commenting Support
• Future Posting Support (via cron)
• Cron Support
• Basic Adding Post Support (with Categories)
• RSS Comments on Posts (with user detail support)
• Database Session Support (all sessions are stored in the database)
• Jquery
• SQLite database support now mostly works
• Contact Form (will be a default plugin) + Mailer Class
• Improvements to custom content

There are a couple of things that need doing before I can upgrade this site to Bluetrait 2:

• Spam Filtering
• Search
• Content Support (for my projects page etc)
• Admin Page (yes I haven't started on it yet!)
• Migration Script (to upgrade database)

The cron support is pretty cool and really easy to use. It will be used in future to handle update notifications, session garbage collection and "monthly database maintenance".

On another note this site is now accessible via IPv6 (2001:388:c021::20), which has already seen traffic!

I want to have something like this in Bluetrait 2

I've been doing a fair bit of Bluetrait 2 coding since my last post about it, so I thought I'd post an update of where I am up to.

Category support is now working. Which is awesome, because it includes full breadcrumb support:

I will expand this to include browsing through the full breadcrumb. This will improve navigation throughout the site.

Other features that I have been working on include:

• Full 404 handling support with custom styles
• Plugin support that can add custom content types
• Customizable peramlink formats
• Overriding site details with a settings file (i.e. domain name etc)
• Pluggable functions
• MySQL and SQLite support
• RSS support
• Templating Tags
• UTF-8 support
• Theme support
• Graceful error handling (i.e on database failure generate an email to the site admin)
• Event Logging

So there is a stack of stuff that has been done. I can't wait until enough has been done so that I can upgrade this site!

Subversion access can be found here (please note it isn't ready to be used on any website yet).