phoboslab / Asaph

A micro-blogging system, focusing on collecting links and images
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Asaph version 1.0

Author: Dominic Szablewski Web: http://www.phoboslab.org/projects/asaph

Requirements & Installation

Asaph needs PHP 5.0 or higher with the GD-lib installed and cURL or allow_url_fopen enabled. Also MySQL 4.0 or higher and an already created database is needed. To post entries to your blog, you'll need a good browser (read: anything not Internet Explorer).

To install, enter your database and server settings in the lib/asaph_config.class.php file. The settings you absolutely need to change are $domain, $absolutePath and $db. You also have the option to switch from the minimalist whiteout templates to the stickney templates by just replacing both occurrences of "whiteout" with "stickney" in the $templates setting.

When done, upload all files to your server and make sure the data/ directory is writable - this is where Asaph stores all images and thumbnails. After that, point your browser to admin/install.php and follow the instructions.

Usage / Posting

The only way to post new entries to your Asaph blog, is through a bookmarklet. After logging in to your admin menu, you will see the ASAPH bookmarklet on the left. Just drag this link to your bookmarks bar and you're set.

Now, navigate your browser to any page you want and click your newly created bookmark. A small box should pop up and all images on the page should now have a dashed blue border (if not, see the FAQ). You can now either click on any of these images or on "Post this Site" to post the image or link.

FAQ

Q: My bookmarklet is not working A: This can have several reasons. The most common one is, that your $domain and/or $absolutePath setting is not correctly set in the asaph_config.class.php. Refer to the installer (admin/install.php) it should tell you the correct settings for these values in the "Asaph Config" section. Another reason for the bookmarklet not working could be, that you disabled iframes in your browser. Some ad-block plugins do this.

Q: When posting images I repeatedly get the message "Couldn't create a thumbnail of the image!" A: Most of the time this happens because Asaph wrongly detects the image URL. Maybe because the thumbnail is linked to an interstitial instead of the image itself. You can enter the image URL manually into the "Image" field if Asaph fails to detect it.

Q: I'm getting the error message "parse error, unexpected ',', expecting '(' in /admin/install.php on line 46" when I try to install Asaph. A: Your server is not running PHP5 (see requirements). Ask Your hoster to update.

Thanks

Thanks to Nicolas Magnier (www.gamovr.com), Nate Cook (natecook.com) for some code contributions and countless others for all the helpful comments, bug reports and suggestions.

Changelog

Version 1.0

Beta 2

License

Copyright (C) 2008 Dominic Szablewski

License: http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.