After years of search and waiting I believe I've finally found the "blogging system" which will suit my needs. I've seen them all. Stupid gorillas like joomla or drupal (try to steer those behemoths in some meaningful direction), hyped yet brittle like glass (yeah and try to move their code out of docroot). Funny but really unusable micro stuff like sNews, "cool" WordPress, epic fails in the likes of BLOG:CMS, hacks like blog plugins for major blog software (phpBB) and wikis (dokuwiki), including "a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers..."
The point is, I just want to move all the crap from the docroot, besides static things. Why? Because I can, because I have enough brain to do it, because I believe it is better in every possible way and lastly but most importantly, because I have the possibility to do exactly that on my hosting.
The point also is, that I just want to have entries in DB and don't want to wander through endless flatfiles (with their own set of permission problems) and would like to select those entries, sort them, export them and do anything else with them in the uncertain future.
I, also, just don't want to run whale in itself, like PHPIDS is, screaming on every fucking post "VIOLATION!". That abomination is running dozens and maybe even hundreds of regexps over every single HTTP request (now talk about prepared statements being slow).
I want to use above mentioned prepared statements because, I always believed that control channel should be impermeably separated from data over which it operates (yeah you guessed right, I hate OOP with passion). So after many tries I returned to this "new" (alphish-betish) project, which I foolishly dismissed before as underdeveloped. It's called Habari.
Well, what to say? I liked it instantly on my localhost. Seems to be using unobtrusive javascript in control panel, with currently trendy and obligatory dashboard, and nice accelerator keys to speed up management. There are not many plugins available, and template back-end still writes "compiled" php to cache dir. But I wanted to resurrect my coding skills anyway, so who knows, maybe I'll write some plugs in the near future. At least I can move that nasty cache dir out of docroot. But overall I really like it.
So, I am saying obligatory lines to help this project spread: this site is running Habari, a state-of-the-art pulishing platform! Habari is a community-driven project created and supported by people from all over the world. Please visit http://habariproject.org/ to find out more!
Let's wait and see the bright future.
