Your very own microblog.
I have rebuilt Howler on top of Laravel, just for better robustness, to not look like a scrub on the platform of the world wide internet, and because it was a good excuse to learn Larave.
Newer version: https://github.com/bszyman/howler-blog
HowlerBlog is a free, open-source microblogging web application, designed to run on any standard ~LAMP server.
It is built using very few dependencies, and is intentionally framework and JavaScript-free, making this application highly portable and very easy to deploy.
Run your own Twitter-like microblog!
(Support for image media and quoting forthcoming.)
Share a collection of cool/interesting bookmarks to your friends. Or, keep them to yourself using the privacy setting - your choice!
Display a list of all of your new Howler friends, or not!
Built-in support for generating an RSS or ATOM feed of your microblog posts. Also included is a JSON endpoint, helpful for doing integrations into your existing web properties.
Similar to classic PHP apps like PHPMyAdmin, Piwigo or WordPress, you simply need to upload the files, and set a few settings in a configuration file.
So, steps to deploy...
- Upload files to your webhost using SFTP or WebDav.
- Configure the app_settings.ini file found in the /common directory.
- Upload the blank/empty starter database (howler.sql) into your database server.
- Windows/MacOS/FreeBSD/Linux
- Apache
- PHP
- MySQL or MariaDB
Note: This will probably work on earlier versions of PHP, but was built against PHP 8.1.
Not a developer and just want to get this up and running?
Download one of our pre-made zip files made available in the Releases section, unarchive, upload and then configure.
If you plan on extending or improving Howler Blog.
- Twig - Server-side templating engine.
- Psalm - Static analysis tool from Vimeo.
- OpenGraph - Helper class for scraping OG info.
To restore dependencies:
% cd /path/to/howler_directory
% composer installThere's no framework underpinning this application. Simply follow a few conventions that already exist in this code, and you should be able to build and extend this application in almost any way, without having to be an expert in Laravel or similar.
This project is licensed under MIT.