Author Archives: Donncha

New version is available for download. This release has a blogrolling plugin that uses your blo.gs favourites to build your site links! I’ll update this site in a day or so and show off a demo of it!

Spitfire asked about blogrolling support in b2. I found Phil Ringnalda’s work on building a blo.gs parser and integrated it into b2++!
It’s not available here yet, but when it is, all you have to do to enable support for it is add the following to your blog template:

{blogroll blogID=”999″ blogteststring=”Somestring”}

I have the following in my template:

{blogroll blogID=”1927″ blogteststring=”Keith”}

Read Phil’s page above for a more detailed explanation of those parameters!

A number of users have told me that posting to b2 is sometimes really slow. I suspected it was because b2 pings weblogs.com and blo.gs, and this post shows that it is a problem with weblogs.com
PHP Traveller documented a way for PHP to execute commands after a browser session/request is completed. It looks like a feature that isn’t very portable across PHP versions so probably not a reasonable solution for a publicly distributed application.

Mathew outlines his requirements for a weblog. Certainly worth reading, and contains lots of good ideas. Sam Ruby questions “the need for a database”, but I think it’s practically impossible to create a decent weblog or information storage/retrieval system without one. You’ll only end up implementing those functions of the database anyway, even if by hand, ftping files up to a server and changing links, etc.

A new snapshot is available for download now. This release will hopefully catch when you don’t have mod_rewrite enabled sooner in the install process.
If b2++ works fine for you, you may want to download the data package as it adds the templatehelp.tpl file, missing from previous releases. (Thanks Jim for finding that one!)