So, what to do? I thought "well let’s look for something PHP based", which if you know me, I’m a bit of a php whore… Recommended* was S9Y<\/a> as it is PHP and authored by many core developers of PHP – seemed perfect! { * I’ll not be listening to that guy again Oh how wrong I was, what a pain in the ass S9Y turned out to be… Badly structured, poorly thought out, and quite lacking in foresight. To get it to display blog posts on my homepage, I had to hack it into my homepage. The authors clearly accepted people would want to do this, and made a config option to turn off all the peripheral crap (calendars, search, archives) – but this then made the regular blog "page" useless. Customising it was, frankly, a bastard.<\/p>\n And so after a couple of months of S9Y, it was time to move on. Now the challenge again was What software to use?<\/p>\n Then it hit me, just what is a blog anyway? It’s a place where I can post a message and others can comment. Sounds like a forum \/ bulletin board system to me. I had recently set up a punBB<\/a> based forum for the ops of the EfNet #php channel<\/a> and I really liked that for its simplicity and speed. Poking around on the punBB support forums<\/a> eventually led me to a couple of modifications: Reply Only forums<\/a> and PunNewz<\/a> which makes punBB perfect for blogging (with a fix and a tweak). Both, by the way, are written by Julian, aka cuteseal, of http:\/\/www.shuttertalk.com\/<\/a>. Kudos to Julian for his work on these.<\/p>\n So there we have it, I now have a bulletin board \/ forum based blog, PHP based, powerful modding ability and, for now at least, I’m a happy camper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Well, as some of you might have noticed. My blog has had a bit of a facelift. A few months back, when I was thinking of starting up this rant sheet, I started looking at some of the possible blog systems to "help" me achieve this. Recommended was Bloxsom which is nice and pretty, seems … <\/p>\n![\";)\"](\"img\/smilies\/wink.png\")
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