GMail based blog - PHP blog Script

December 15, 2007 Blog Scripts No Comments

Gallina: just a GMail based blog :-) (Proof of concept)

This is an awesome idea to allow you to blog via GMail. Who needs an SQL database when you can save your posts to GMail?

Features

  • Uses GMail messages as “entries” (the message star is the publish status)
  • Replies to conversations are the “entry comments”
  • Uses libgmailer (gmail-lite project) to connect to GMail
  • Uses XML/XSLT
  • Support jpeg/png attachments
  • Support comments from the web
  • Is free software ;-) (GPL)

Documentation

Requirements
See libgmailer requirements: http://gmail-lite.sourceforge.net/

Installation

  1. Decompress the tarball
  2. Edit include/config.php
  3. Add write permissions to ./cache and ./gallina
  4. Load it from your web browser ;-)

Note: To post a message you’ll need to star it in GMail (it’s not automatic but you can create a GMail filter)

DEMO
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