Publisher review:php-antville - PHP version of the blog software Antville There are various ways to install and run Antville: starting with the all-in-one package Antclick which contains everything you need (Webserver, Application server, embedded database) up to the "industrial strength" setup using Apache Webserver (or any other capable of running servlets) and an external relational database (MySQL, Oracle). Basically all you need is an operating system that supports Java 2 (Linux, Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X or the like) and the Java installation of course.
- Simple and fast creation of weblogs (it really takes just two clicks!)
- Numerous defineable weblog preferences
- Title, tagline, number of days to show on frontpage
- Free language and timezone definition (weblogs can be "placed" in any timezone)
- Date and time formats
- Weblogs can be either publicly accessible or private, ie. accessible only for owners / administrators or privileged members of a weblog)
- Limit the creation of stories, polls etc. to privileged members or allow it for every registered user
- Switchable notification to weblogs.com about updates
- Definition of colors using a popup color chooser including preview (no need to remember those hex codes)
- Central font family and size definition
- Fully customizeable layout
- Site and system administrators can create any number of different layouts and exchange them between different installations
- Every weblog consists of numerous skins (HTML templates) for certain page parts, lists, editing forms etc.
- Users can choose from a rich set of macros (special tags that can be embedded in skins, stories, comments etc.) to further customize the layout and structure of a weblog
- Each skin can be modified to the personal needs using a web based skin manager and editor; there is also a diff function which clearly displays which lines have been altered compared to the default skin
- Calenda-based and / or page navigation
- Easy and flexible story management
- Stories can be extended freely: by default a stories and comments consist of title and body text, but one can easily add e.g. a teaser, summary or the like.
- Stories can be filed in an unlimited number of topics
- Stories can be saved offline, published just in a topic (if defined) or also on the frontpage of a weblog
- Creation date of stories can be modified (allowing eg. stories about upcoming events)
- Collaborative story editing: authors can decide who is allowed to edit their own story
- Backlink logging (referrers) for each story (can be displayed publicly)
- User comments
- By default any story can be commented by registered users
- Comments can either appear as flat discussion (non threaded), two level deep ("simple threading") or with unlimited levels (the slashdot way)
- Commenting can be disabled for the whole weblog or for single stories
- Advanced image handling
- Images can either be uploaded or "grabbed" by entering the URL of an image
- Automatic resizing and creation of thumbnail images
- Immages are organized in a separate pool for easy maintenance
- Images can be embedded in any story, comment or skin either in full size or as thumbnail linking to the full size image (the necessary javascript code is generated automatically)
- Easy file handling
- Upload any type of file (eg. mp3, pdf, doc)
- Files are organized in a separate pool for easy maintenance
- Download counter for each file
- Files can be embedded in any story, comment or skin
- Polls
- Online polls can be created and managed in a separate pool for easy maintenance
- Polls can be embedded in stories or skins
- Only one vote per poll for each user, but users can change their vote in a poll as long as the poll is open for voting
- Public list of all polls created within a weblog
- Registration, login and subscription
- Users just have to register once within each Antville server
- Every public weblog can be "subscribed" by any number of users
- Password reminder function in case a user has forgotten the credentials
- Automatic login using cookies ("remember me")
- E-mail notifications
- Customizeable spam filter for referrers and backlinks
- Multiple user groups: owners / administrators of a weblog can grant special rights to subscribers by simply assigning them to one of the groups "administrators", "content managers" or "contributors".
- List of the most read stories of a weblog (the length of the list is customizable)
- Full text search functionality
- Full support of XML-RPC interface; users can use other editors and services (e.g. w.bloggar) to post to their weblog
- RSS feeds
- Every weblog has its own RSS feed containing just stories or stories and comments
- Antville offers a root RSS feed containing a list of the recently updated weblogs
- System management
- Web based system setup: define the language of an Antville installation, system e-mail address etc.
- Creation of new weblogs can be allowed for every registered user or limited in various ways:
- Trusted users (system administrators can define who is a trusted user)
- Users who have been registered longer than 1 to 90 days
- Users who have registered before a freely defineable date
- If desired Antville can force users to wait a definable amount of days (1-90) between the creation of two weblogs (to prevent "name grabbing")
- Web based management (including search) of weblogs: grant trusted permissions to weblogs, block or remove weblogs
- User accounts: grant trusted permissions or system administration rights to users, block accounts
- System status page shows detailed information about requests (both HTTP and XML-RPC) as well as uptime, errors, threads and memory consumption
- Automatic system cleanup and logging
- Watch for weblogs being private for longer than a customizable amount of days
- Automatically block weblogs that are private for too long (customizable period, weblog owners are notified by mail)
- Automatically remove weblogs that are inactive for too long
- Creation and deletion of weblogs and all automatic cleanup tasks are logged in database and can be viewed as well as searched in the system management section
php-antville is a PHP script for Blog scripts design by dirk olbertz.
It runs on following operating system: Windows / Linux / BSD / Solaris.
php-antville - PHP version of the blog software Antville
Operating system:Windows / Linux / BSD / Solaris
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