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Anchor lightweight blog system
Just stumbled upon this. Looks pretty decent:
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Looks simple and pretty neat, I'll give it a try
Thanks !
I like it. Pretty! I actually have a good use for that with a project I'm working on for my brother right now.
This looks very nice, and small. Perfect for a LEB... @joepie91 have an opinion about the security?
Yeah, this does look interesting!
it doesn't work with debian , you need to upgrade php first
I've been following one of the developers for a long time. (at least VisualIdiot)
I love anchor, but there it's practically riddled with bugs. Used it for a good four months on my portfolio then it just went crazy by itself.
Support wasn't too good at the time either, maybe they improved.
0.9 update wasn't any better.
Id give it a shot yourself though, maybe better luck.
I'm having a bear of a time trying to get it to work on my Windows Azure trial
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This is as far as I've gotten :P http://corgi.azurewebsites.net/
After running the installer, and chooosing the "Visit site" option, I get this error:
[](Uncaught Exception
syntax error, unexpected 'index' (T_STRING), expecting ')'
Origin
anchor\config\app.php on line 5
Trace
0 [internal function]: System\Error::shutdown()
1 {main} )
Definitely not as easy to install as WordPress
In that anchor\config\app.php file, on line five is []('index' => 'index.php',) Not sure what else it wants there...?
Nice. I've been looking for an alternative to WP.
@Tim: I didn't have to do any manual config, though the download link wasn't working. I did a git clone, updated PHP and then ran the installer and it did everything
http://blog.sysadmin.co.uk/
@jhadley, cool glad it works will try it out soon as well.
Seems APC has an issue with the correct path / isn't installed:
Uncaught Exception
PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/lib64/php/modules/apc.so' - /usr/lib64/php/modules/apc.so: undefined symbol: pcre_exec
Origin
@Kris fixed, thanks
Np - Oddly was sporadic, only mentioned since it I've just recently gotten into APC as a cache, and have been looking at Anchor as a blog too
I will follow this thread closely :P
I'm debating between Anchor, Chronicle, Dokuwiki, and Processwire.. Will likely test out all four
anchor is still in very active development so might want to wait a bit. they are planning a major release soon tho
Got any link to that ?
Indeed, I can't seem to find it by searching Google. I think I found the developer's site but couldn't find any links on that site for Chronicle.
http://www.steve.org.uk/Software/chronicle/
By Steve Kemp a Debian developer
It seems okay, security-wise. It's very heavily framework-based, so things like SQL queries and such are effectively abstracted away. Can't see any glaring errors, and while I'm personally not a fan of code that's split up in so many little pieces, I can't immediately see anything that makes me go "oh no...".
You're probably safe running this on your server. Obviously I didn't do an in-depth check, but just as a general indication.
My eyes hurt from all the static functions. Besides that, I agree with @joepie91 that is looks good (security-wise). This is clearly someone that has thought about what he was doing.
On a side note: personally I do prefer splitting everything up on those little pieces. You write code once, but read it 10 times (or more). Also, keeping classes and functions small forces you to think about their purpose, about abstraction and about making functions do just a single task, not multiple. In my experience, it may take a little time more upfront (especially when you're not used to it), but you'll be so much happier when you return to the code to fix a bug or add a feature.
The problem is that you cannot get an overview of the codebase.
Works fine. Just installed it in place of my personal blog that was on wordpress ... www.brendancarlson.me
I've built a couple of websites/blogs on AnchorCMS. I love the UI and the documentation is easy to understand, though a bit lacking in all of the functions.
Yes, it is sometimes buggy. Yes, setup is harder than the 5 minute wordpress setup.
No way is it harder? It's exactly the same. Set it up on my dedi in less than 5 minutes.
Create a database, upload files, go to install dir.
Got it running here: http://www.CoderAndrew.com
@agoldenberg - same here. It's pretty and it seems fairly lightweight. My server which has an atom processor is handling it just fine with a fair amount of traffic.
You mean how it's structured (like the file tree) or how a requests traverses through the code?
another "lightweight" blog CMS is NibbleBlog (literally needs no DB as it's just PHP and XML... though I have to wonder if they couldn't make some kind of static page generator so you're not hitting PHP every single visit).
http://www.nibbleblog.com/
They also have a version of it that supports MarkDown (much like this place)
I think Blite [ http://blite.ca/ ] is too fast for basic blogging needs. Apparently it has not received any updates this year yet.
Too fast?
I mean loads pretty fast probably being light weight.