A pure Flash Blog. OpenSource!

Guys at Motion4graphics.com have developed a flash blog ( www.flashblog.org ), i think the first Weblog made in Flash/Php/MySQL Opensource.

It is a project that is in Beta test, but that the main features already are already included. As they said: “We wished to be extending benefits little by little, we didn’t want to reinvent the Weblog”.
Next there will be the feature to donwload all the archives.

The main features are actually:
– Front End, developed in Flash.
– BackEnd developed in Php/MySQL
– Creation of categories.
– Searches.
– Limitation of entrances by page.
– extended Entrances (read more..).
– Publisher wysiwyg.
– Multiple users and authors.
– Limitless vertical Stage.
– Function botons back/ahead.
– Source codes FLA including.

Jpegs can be added, including the limitations of flash which can load only non progressive jpegs.. maybe they can add the GD support (or also image magik) in order to let all jpegs compatible and also PNG (waiting for gif support come back in the GD lib) ?
I’m still trying to understand how is set the framework.. how data is transmitted to flash (xml, remoting or flat loadvars)..

It seems a really promising project. take a minute to look at this.

Installing PHP5 on Apache server

Today i was trying to install the new PHP5 module on my local apache server.
It’s really simple at least, but when searching for instructions i discovered WAMP5, which includes in the installation:

  • Apache 1.3.31
  • PHP 5.0.0
  • MySQL 4.0.18
  • PhpMyAdmin 2.5.7
  • sqlitemanager

I’ve immediately installed it 😉
Once installed you’ll see a new tray icon with some options for your installed services.
I sugges it if you are thinking to install PHP5 on your local machine (i have also a separate apache/php4/mysql3 framework on my machine too, in this way i can always switch trought the two version of PHP/MySQL)

PHP 5.0.0 Released!

Finally, after months of release candidates…
Some of the key features of PHP 5 include:

* The Zend Engine II with a new object model and dozens of new features.
* XML support has been completely redone in PHP 5, all extensions are now focused around the excellent libxml2 library (http://www.xmlsoft.org/).
* A new SimpleXML extension for easily accessing and manipulating XML as PHP objects. It can also interface with the DOM extension and vice-versa.
* A brand new built-in SOAP extension for interoperability with Web Services.
* A new MySQL extension named MySQLi for developers using MySQL 4.1 and later. This new extension includes an object-oriented interface in addition to a traditional interface; as well as support for many of MySQL’s new features, such as prepared statements.
* SQLite has been bundled with PHP. For more information on SQLite, please visit their website.
* Streams have been greatly improved, including the ability to access low-level socket operations on streams.
* And lots more…

http://www.php.net