Today i worked on the blog engine i plan to publicize. It’ll be based on PHP and MySQL, naturally, as i don’t really know anything else, and all output will be XML format. Some of it will be written using OOP, some will be just “normal” coding, with everything i know in it. It already has its entry parser function done. “Nice job, a whole day’s work and only that!” No, not only that, i’ve also written the error handling class and secured a method for others to translate the blog (not the content, but the script) into other languages (i write both hungarian and english language files for it, japanese and german will come later) and as i said, with that XML format i also give them huge freedom in designing templates using XSLT. All entries “can has” multiple categories and files attached to them, users will have the same features as in this blog (just with a working profile edit page), and on many more fields, it’ll be much like this blog. It already has more advanced text formatting features than this blog, such as automatically recognising and linkifying URLs and e-mail addresses. I want to write it well. kthxbye

Today i started working on the new version of the blog (yeah, once again), so please note this day in your calendars, so that you’ll know how long it takes for me to develop such a “simple” thing. I haven’t done much yet, just decided the basic methods to use and wrote some of the most interesting functions. I try to finish it quickly (remember this).

This whole afternoon i’ve been learning – see the next post, what -, now i only keep a short break and go back to my “beloved books”. I’ve been thinking about what kind of project should i launch once i’m done with those i’m already in.

This LOLCODE thing is just great, i must say. So much fun coding it, though many of the methods i’m used to in php is missing. Still, just today i wrote a FizzBuzz script and one that finds perfect numbers. Both need the % php operator (modulus calculation), so i made up the MOD word. It’s not much lolspeak, but better than nothing.

I read about this at Shamalt.

You won’t believe what i’ve found: the backup of the previous blog. The last post is of 1^st december 2006, but that’s still better than nothing, isn’t it? I’m thinking about how to install them back into this blog version… If i wanted to keep their old ids, then i’d have to change the ids of the new posts, which would be loads of updates in the categories table. There is a lot of posts in the backup, exactly 420, and (with this one) 53 in the blog… Any ideas on how to integrate them?

Also note that it is your responsibility to die() if necessary.

PHP documentation, set_error_handler

I couldn’t resist posting this. Found it while learning error handling functions for my reference work.