xer0-1ne / envoi

A PHP-based flat file blogging system with shareability, simplicity, and versatility in mind.

Envoi is currently under development and looking to grow the team. If you are interested, please let me know.

Envoi

Envoi is simple, self-hosted, PHP, flat-file blogging platform that, through the use of public APIs, enables simultaneous and instant sharing with a variety of social media services. The focus of Envoi is to eliminate the requirement for SQL databases, maintain a strong security focus, and simplify the blog/content/sharing experience. Envoi will store all posts locally while also sharing content on various social media services and gather related information back onto the Envoi (comments, likes, shares, etc).

One of the unique features built into Envoi is the category system. Most blog content falls into six categories; text, photo, video, file, link/URL, quote. To make the Envoi's blogging experience more user friendly, these categories will be the core of sharing information. These options will help display content and format this content to comply with the posting requirements for other social meida platforms.

Text:

For use with standard blog posts and code blocks. This will be mostly friendly with all social media platforms.

Photo:

To share a photo with or without caption. The goal would be to target formatting for social media platforms that focus on images.

Video:

To share a video or link from other video websites like YouTube. Unlike the URL category, this will embed the video directly into the blog.

File:

To share a file or link to a file

URL Link:

To share a weblink

Quote:

To share a quote where author/originator is required

Screenshots

Setup is designed to be very minimialist and to the point. When deploying this project, you should be up and running in seconds!

Adding content is a very easy process. Simply follow the fields.

The view page is designed to provide you an overview of content and the ability to edit or delete content.

Roadmap

• Build a functional blog platform that is secure and fast. Envoi will be built with theming and plugin extendability
• Incorporate social media APIs
• Beta release
• Establish domain for better visibility
• Build Android / iOS app to simplify mobile blogging/sharing

envoi's Issues

Windows Browsers are Processing Special Characters Wrong

MAMP on Windows is processing literal slashes and spaces in HTML. This causes the links to break. (for instance, a \ is processed as %5C). Adding AllowEncodedSlashes to httpd.conf did not resolve the issue.

Create Login Function

Create user sessions and tie them into the login page. Make all admin sections protected to an active user session.

Requirements for user login to work properly:

• password encryption
• user database file which stores the password
• when the user database file is created, the password must always be encrypted (maybe md5)

Create database folder if doesn't exist

Content Editing

The ability to edit content from the posts view.

Display Date Info on Post Header

Create Login Page

Rebuild Admin Edit Posts Page

Rebuild the edit posts page with the dynamic HTML builder class.

AJAX-style Search Bar for Post Filter

Add a search bar on the main page (just below the author section) that allows automatically-updated filtering based on search criteria for all posts.

Rebuild Admin Dashboard View

Rebuild the admin page dashboard with the dynamic HTML pages.

HTML Class Function to Clean Browser Source Code

Viewing source code currently aligns everything to the left with no code indentation. I have tried using DOMDocument's saveXML to see if I could use the built-in formatting feature, but it doesn't work properly. The best solution (for now) is to create a class function that passes the local HTML variable prior to displaying. This function can add the required tabs to clean up the source code.

Rebuild Admin View Posts Page

Rebuild the view posts page with the dynamic HTML builder class.

Add Setup Instructions to the Readme

Create an admin panel shell

Main Page User Bar

Add a dark, thin bar across the top of the main page that displays the admin page link and the user profile information. Maybe adding a quick button to posts so that the user can quickly get to adding content.

Build Admin Profile Page

Build the profile page with the dynamic HTML builder class.

Build Admin Settings Page

Build the settings page with the dynamic HTML builder class.

HTML builder class

Create a class that can dynamically create HTML tags. The class needs to accommodate single line tags and tags that require opener and closer on same lines or different lines.
Things like id, name, class, action, method, etc, need to be accounted for as they will be dynamic in terms of how many variables could be used.

//section tags that need to exist
<html lang=""> </html>
<head> </head>
<body id="" class=""> </body>
<header> </header>
<nav> </nav>


//Need to create a div tag that is open-ended and can be closed later
<div class="1 2 3 4"> </div>
<title> </title>
<a class="1 2 3 4" href="html_link">  </a>
<h#> </h#>
<span class="1 2 3"> </span>
<form method="" action="" class=""> </form>


//tags that are one-liners and don't require closing
<meta name="" content=""> OR <meta charset="">
<link rel="" href="" type="">
<br>
<hr>
<input type="" class="" value"">

Post Form

Create a form to post/create a post that stores the information in a file.

Rebuild Admin Add-Posts Page

Rebuild the add posts page with the dynamic HTML builder class.