You wouldn’t think it’d be that hard to find a weblogging system done in PHP that doesn’t require *SQL1 or some other database and doesn’t add in a whole lot of slash-inspired fluff. (Just trust me on that one, you really wouldn’t.) So of course, I can’t find one anywhere. Pivot is looking like the closest thing out there to what I need, and even it is a poster child of feeping creaturism. Sadly, it’s appearing like this comment from the afore-mentioned MeFi thread might still be true: “It is probably simpler to roll your own than to try to find an existing package that will do what you need. A simple weblog engine only takes about 40-50 lines of code.”The thing I can’t figure out, however, is why nobody has written and released those 40-50 lines of code, instead of the >100kb monsters out there now that do the exact same thing, only slower and after you spend days configuring them.
Does that mystical 50 lines actually exist somewhere out there, in some dark ungoogled part of the web? Am I crazy? Am I dreamin’? Discuss.
1 I don’t really like your ‘traditional’ databases. I like XML. Also, I don’t have access to SQL anyway, though that is by far the lesser concern. I guess I’ll never really trust anything that I can’t open in a plain old text editor and grasp the basic structure of inside of 5 minutes. Scripting languages have spoiled me for all useful purposes, I know.