Digital Diary

Purpose

A lightweight alternative to Live Journal - written in PHP.** Basic journal/diary and profiles modeled after Live Journal. No community building, finding users by interests, etc. nor do I intend on writing any clients.

There are lots of sites and scripts that do this already. I liked the interface of LiveJournal, but it has a pretty heavy Perl requirement for installation. And the actual site requires a donation, which I understand based on their costs, but still don't like.

** Note: Live Journal is open source already, written in Perl. The alternative is that Digital Diary is written in PHP.

Environment

I don't write requirements, because invariably some people make the script work in other environments - and some people can't get it to work at all. [shrug] So here's what I use to run Digital Diary:

• Apache 1.3.24
• PHP 4.1.2 w/ session support
• MySQL 3.23.44
• FreeBSD 4.4 RELEASE

I don't see any reason why you couldn't run the script on NT, since there's no file I/O. The session support in PHP is the only real "requirement" as far as functionality is concerned.

Progress / Future Additions

I'm done with it for a while.

Known Issues

Admins must be added by hand, through MySQL. Set $tb_users.status to "AD" for each admin.

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Who's Using Digital Diary?

Currently, the following servers are using Digital Diary in some form:

• BC Journal - A big step in DD evolution.
• Digital Girl
• Grooveboy
• jBlog
• Nairohe
• Necrotic Obsession
• The Wasteland

If you're using Digital Diary, let me know so that I can add you to the list.

Downloads / Revision History

1.0 Beta 2 - October 18, 2002

Okay, I fucked up. I archived the old install.php - so naturally half of the features won't work. :)

• [fix] install.phps - Updated.

1.0 Beta 1 - October 10, 2002

Note: The beta has all the current functionality, but hasn't been finalized. At this point, I doubt I'll finish it.

• [fix] comments.php - Day of week displayed.
• [fix] comments.php - No link for Anonymous comments.
• [fix] inc.template.php - Set proper titles for all pages.
• [fix] index.php - Strip HTML from snippets, just in case. (jenearly)
• [fix] update.php - Proper editting.
• [fix] update.php - Anonymous cannot post.
• [fix] user.php - Non-existant users aren't displayed anymore.
• [fix] user.php - ICQ values aren't displayed unless numeric.
• [fix] view.php - Day of week displayed.
• [fix] view.php - Non-existant users aren't displayed anymore.
• [new] admin.php - Basic user/comment/entry display and deletion. Enough to toast bogus accounts and such.
• [new] comments.php - IP of Anonymous commenter is shown to author. (guido)
• [new] inc.template.php - hit counter
• [new] index.php - Users are notified of new comments upon login.
• [new] index.php - Configurable "Who's Online" display.
• [new] index.php - Only displays unique authors.
• [new] stats.php - A few statistics for the bored.
• [new] view.php - Paging, via NextPrev class by sephiroth. Thanks!

1.0 - 17 June 2002 - Initial Release.

Contributors / Props

A lot of the script looks and feels like other open source scripts out there. I've had a lot of code to learn from, especially ScratchLog and XMB Forum. In addition, I looked at a lot of sites to check out their structure, notably LiveJournal and Digital Expressions.

A few thanks to some individuals, who did some user-level testing, offered suggestions, and who scoured my code looking for the source of those pesky errors. Thanks to Jordan Caminiti, Jeff Prystajko, Ryan Schneider, and Garrett Walz.

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