Please read this update about microlight's future
microlight (or µLight, or µlite, etc)
Why?
Microlight is a blogging engine based on IndieWeb-based concepts. This means support for:
- POSSE (posting on your site, automatically posting to other social media
sites, and linking the two together)
- This means comments and replies on those social media websites will also appear on your site underneath the post
- Post formats:
- Note ("tweets")
- Article (blog posts)
- Photo
- Video
- And more! (See PostType)
- Replies
- Other people with an IndieWeb compatible website will be able to post comments on your blog using their own website as an account
- Owning your identity
- Your website is a corner of the internet you own - no company keeps a-hold of the information you post to it
Screenshot
Requirements
- PHP 7 or above
While in theory microlight should work on PHP 5.6, this version is no longer supported by the PHP group, and so I will not be testing it on any version below 7. - PDO SQLite/MySQL
Currently, the table creation functions are written purely for SQLite (this will be added for MySQL shortly), although fetch posts and inserting posts are fully functional using MySQL. - GD Image Processing Library
For image uploads. This extension can be enabled in yourphp.inifile, or by installingphp-gd, depending on your distro. - Apache or Nginx
To prevent your SQLite database from being directly downloaded, you should run microlight in an Apache or Nginx server. In the future, pretty-URL support will also be enabled for those doing so, when it is eventually developed.
Disclaimer
- Whilst in development, microlight has not been tested on a macOS or Windows server, only on Arch Linux. Until I have at least confirmed it working on Windows, your mileage may vary.
- This is mainly a personal project. I would love suggestions for new features,
although if they do not align with my goals for this software, I am not likely
to implement them. You are, of course, welcome to add features by submitting
a pull request!
😁