Geeklog 1.3.9sr2

Summary

Geeklog is a weblog powered by PHP and MySQL. It allows you within minutes to set up a fully functioning dynamic website, and has many features to get you started. As of Geeklog 1.3, these features are:

Features of Geeklog

• User-system, allowing members of the public to register for your site and submit stories.
• Comment system, allowing users to comment on posts made to your site.
• Block system, allowing you to put information anywhere on your site.
• Plugin system that allows you to extend Geeklog, without having to code any new PHP.
• Theme system that allows users to select what layout they want to view.
• Excellent security model that allows you to give users control over certain aspects of the site with no need to worry.
• Site Statistics that show you the most popular areas of your site.
• Link system that allows users to add links to the site.
• Calendar System that lets you and your user add up-and-coming events.
• Allow users to email stories to their friends.

Introduction

GeekLog was originally developed for the Security Geeks web site and was originally authored by Jason Whittenburg. In early 2001, Jason decided it was time to devote his time to other things and the project has since been maintained by Tony Bibbs who uses Geeklog to run Iowa Outdoors. Geeklog is bona fide open-source software and has been released under the GNU GPL for use by others. Configuring GeekLog is meant to be an easy process though it will require you to have access to several components of your system.

This document is still evolving, so there may be unintended omissions or various steps may be over or under explained. It's assumed that you have some working experience with some form of Apache (or IIS), SQL databases (such as MySQL), and PHP.