PHP Blogging

[jackmcnally]

Hi Guys,

 

I've been looking for a clone script for this, but can't seem to find one, so I'll more than likely need to code it (unless you know of a clone). Basically, what I want to do is to have a tumblr like clone, where a user signs up, chooses a username, password and blog address (a subdomain of the root, or in a different folder (eg. www.gdfgdfg.com/blognamehere or www.blognamehere.gfdgdgdgg.com)), and then they are able to blog from a user panel (the software will be auto-installed to the sub-domain upon account creation).

 

Thanks,

Jack

[QuickOldCar]

You can use wordpress and enable the multi blogs function, is a wealth of plugins to help you even do more with it.

 

http://wordpress.org/

[jackmcnally]

Hey,

 

So how exactly would I manage that like said above?

[QuickOldCar]

All the features are built right into it off the start.

 

Is an admin area with a wealth of options.

 

Might as well mention the buddypress plugin for a more social type website.

 

http://buddypress.org/

[QuickOldCar]

You can enable the multi manually, but they even make a plugin for this as well.

 

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-multi-site-enabler-plugin-v10/

[RussellReal]

Well, you don't need to "automatically install" any software, one copy of the code should suffice

 

basically what you're gonna want is a "catch all" subdomain set up

 

once you have a catch all sub domain set up, then you will want to write up some htaccess to point non 'www' and any other sub domains you want to reserve E.G. 'developer', and point those to yoursite.com/<thesubdomain>

 

and then under that you'll want to point yoursite.com/<thesubdomain> to a url like:

 

blog.php?user=<thesubdomain>

 

 

then blog.php?user=<thesubdomain> will have to connect to the users table, change it to an id, then load all the posts and stuff from that specific user, and portray it in blog.php

 

you could also expect things like so:

 

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.* [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([^\.]+)\.yoursite\.com
RewriteRule ^(.*) /%1/$1

RewriteRule ^(.*)/(.*)/?$ blog.php?user=$1&page=$2 [L]

 

I think the above would work fine for a catch all sub domain

 

the issue here is, the blog.php file :3

 

[trq]

yoursite.com/<thesubdomain>

 

That is a directory, not a subdomain.

[RussellReal]

I know that Thorpe, you're moving the sub domain, over to as a directory

 

then with the next rewriterule, it takes the directory and passes it to blog.php

 

lol