Kvifor.com

* “Wash” comment fields (they don't really work right now)
-Done
* Show “stripped” comments directly in each users blog?
-Done
* Make headlines clickable to permalink
-Done
Tomorrow and further I will (maybe):
* Make a smarter user interface for users (make links the right places)
* Tidy up links vs. trackback, this is a mess, you can't mix them, stupid
* Make some system for the user to choose who to trackback when. This is hard. Have to think about this.
* Allow trackbacks to user? Might be tricky, I don't know yet.
* Make links directly to mpeg4-files for download, viewing, etc.
* Have a look at SMIL again, check what quicktime 7 is up to? Probably nothing new.
* Check out (simple) routines for anti-spam. What about generating image of a couple of numbers?
* Fix bug with break-tag in edit-mode

I realize that this is not a blog, not a vlog, vblog, vog or anything else remotely like that. Not to me at least. Yet. Right now, all I can do is trackback other people's blogs. I need to be able to make a conversation, then I'll be happy. This hasn't been prioritized enough. FIX THIS.

I wonder if I should make permalinks look like this: user.vided.org/archive/85_This_is_the_subject.

What do you think? Nah, I will never know, because you can't comment, you cannot trackback. You actually have to write an e-mail. Bahh, like if. E-mail is sooo last-century. Whatever.

I'll spread the word about something I find appealing: Personal subdomain with personalized content. I'm using the following methods:

Apache
Add these lines to the configuration file, httpd.conf.

#

Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All

#

The “AllowOverride All” makes it possible to use .htaccess files. This is an example of such a file:

#

ForceType application/x-httpd-php

#

This allows me to create a file called “rss” and still let it be treated as a PHP-file. This makes it possible to create nicer links, like user.vided.org/edit instead of user.vided.org/edit.php. I also use this method with the RSS-feed, user.vided.org/rss.

OK, even more fun is this. Make ALL subdomains point to your server. You have to setup DNS like this: *.vided.org. (A-record) IP-address. Read more about this with a simple google-search: wildcard DNS. Or read this.

You have to setup a virtual server in your Apache config again by editing the configuration file, httpd.conf. Add these lines (example):

#

DocumentRoot /where/your/www/data/is/located/subfolder/
ServerName subfolder.vided.org
ServerAlias *.vided.org
#The customlog is another story, but worth checking out.
#CustomLog /somewhere/log/httpd-users.vided.org.log combined

#

Now ALL subdomains point to a subfolder of your choice. Nice! This makes misspelled addresses like “ww.vided.org” get to your server. But it is still some way to go before this is _really_ fun. Let's make some PHP code…

// get server http request info (subdomain)
$serverhost = explode( '.' , $_SERVER["HTTP_HOST"]);

// Actually this is a "hack". It gets the first word/phrase before a "."
// This means that both anna.vided.org and anna.is.really.stupid.vided.org
// leads to the same content.

// get subdomain
$subdomain = $serverhost[0];

// get server http request info (example: getting info from "user.vided.org/archives/37")
$uri = explode( '/' , $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"]);

//This gets the complete address like "archives/37"
$completeuri = $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"];

// This should get "archives"
$function = $uri[1];

// This should get "37"
$archivenumber = $uri[2];

?>

OK, now we've got a script that can tell us what the user typed. This can be used in SQL-queries, which I do. I serve the vlog of the user “ag” when you type “ag.vided.org”. And whenever you type ag.vided.org/rss, you get the RSS-feed from ag.

In case you wondered. Stupid me, I was using imagecreate().

Also, for this testing purpose, I'm using pictures taken with my Nokia 6230 cellular. I will supply better quality pictures another time

I think I have to work a bit more with this image compression… I thought PHP's GD-library should be fairly OK. Or is it something else? Anyway, trying again, this time using “best quality” compression.

And deletion of posts as I mentioned yesterday, I've got to do that as well. Just reminding myself…

I just learnt “more code, more bugs” at a security seminar, and I'm afraid that's correct. Even though, I had to write some more to include picture uploading and scaling. I'm testing this now.

Check out the link to my friend's pictureblog, “Our endless numbered days”, where I got my inspiration to make these picture-functions

I guess it's laughable, but _now_ you can edit your own postings… Which means that you still can not _delete_ them, I realized now. But that will get fixed right away.If you've got a beta user, check out http://username.vided.org/editI'm still struggling with trackbacking. You can ping blogs but I cant get pings to technocrati to work, and that was sort of my plan… Another issue I plan to look into is “accepting pings”. More on this issue later.

Trying something different…

OK, I think trackbacking works now, now I need to get this thing to accept trackbacks from others as well as a lot of other details…. (the web-link points to wrong place)

I'm trying to trackback this url, which you can go here to see if it works…..

Finished search feature yesterday, improved it a bit today, and now also the tagging system works more or less as intended. All users can edit their own video clips' names + tags. All users can add tags to other users' clips. Now I guess I need to improve search capabilites/possibility by other search engines. I don't quite know how. Should I list tags below each videoclip in each users vlog? Or only list tags in the RSS-feed? OK. Maybe I should wait with this, and go for trackback support.