Pencil 2.0

A Simple flat-file blog exercise built with plain(procedural) php, no funky frameworks, no fussy builds or installs. And, it comes with a super easy admin panel to edit, delete, create posts and upload images.

The original code isn't my work and it is a fork from syndicatefx's work on Pencil. I wanted to make some huge changes that is why this project was started.

Screenshot

Install

• You will need PHP running on your server with htaccess and mod_rewrite engine ON capabilities.
• Upload files inside Pencil/ folder anywhere you want to install the blog on your server.
• Edit assets/config.php
• Enable public read+write permissions to "posts/" and "media/" folders. (chmod 755 or 777)

Built in functionality:

• SEO friendly url, dynamic page titles and meta descriptions, including Open Graph meta tags.
• Easy configurable site name, author, description/homepage text and copyright text.
• Lightweight WYSIWYG to edit and create new posts, a modified version of Trumbowyg.
• Pagination happens on client side built using jPages jquery plugin.
• No database needed, posts are stored as html in .txt files.

Things to remember:

• Not equiped for Latin or Cyrillic languages.
• Strict file naming (slug) - always add date first in Y-M-D format, no capitalized letters, dash(-) instead of spaces, when creating new post in admin interface.
• Basic image file upload, you can then insert images in your post using their URL(ex: media/mypic.jpg).
• Admin page not secure, you can use htaccess to password protect this file.
• Strictly Apache + htaccess and mod_rewrite engine on.
• Enable public read+write permissions to "posts/" and "media/" folders. (chmod 755 or 777)
• Enable public read+write permissions to "posts/" and "media/" folders. (chmod 755 or 777) - For the posts you write and the images you upload.

Bugs:

• Fix file sort for same date files, it still outputs the files, but it orders them alphabetically. Probably not a big issue if you're not posting more than one article a day.
• Still testing...

Acknowledgements:

This project also uses many other open source libraries such as:

Project	License	Website
Trumbowyg	The MIT License	http://alex-d.github.com/Trumbowyg
jPages	The MIT License	http://luis-almeida.github.com/jPages

License

Pencil 2.0 is under the The MIT License.