Anyone still interested in the PHP-Metafilter project?

December 6, 2002 9:43 PM

Is anyone still interested in the PHP-Metafilter project? From looking at the sourceforge pages, it doesn't appear that any work was ever done on it. I've been working on a project for my company, part of which involves our own internal version of metafilter. It's not an exact clone of MeFi, but it's definately inspired by it. I'd be glad to donate it to the project, if everyone finds it appropriate & acceptable.
posted by skwm to MetaFilter-Related at 9:43 PM (14 comments total)

The main addition to the basic Metafilter functionality that I've added is the ability to link journal entries ("FPPs") to jobs ("categories"), and also to specific dates. Any date that has an entry which references it gets highlighted in the calendar, which is displayed in the sidebar.

I still need to add commenting & administrative functions (like editing and deleting of posts), finish the sort/filter functionality, and a few other tasks.

I've posted some static copies of the pages at www.jurnove.net/phpmefi. Right now, I'm about 60% finished, and expect to have it completed within two weeks.
posted by skwm at 9:54 PM on December 6, 2002

I copied MetaFilter as best I could as a way of learning PHP. I keep putting off offering the code because I've never taken the time to make it easily implementable for anyone other than me (code sits in various includes that mix content and appearance too much for my tastes). You can see it in action at localnine.com, but only in IE 5.5+; I've never fixed the design either because it's something of a busman's holiday for myself and a co-worker and I'm trying to force him to make a new design. Anyone who still wants the code after looking at the site is welcome to it.
posted by yerfatma at 4:54 AM on December 7, 2002

Oooh oooh, me too! Phpilfer is my forum software. It has freezing/hiding/deleting of stories and posts, everything is a theme. It has pretty URLs, and I have Forumzilla support working but it's not in the current download. It's based after Metafilter, my religious beliefs on URLs, and a few BBS software features.

It was a pity that PHP-Metafilter didn't go anywhere, I guess. Lots of initial chatter and excitement. But Matt never said he wanted to lead it, nor did anyone else, and ten minutes later there was silence.
posted by holloway at 5:49 AM on December 7, 2002

Matt never said he wanted to lead it, nor did anyone else

You three seem to have put a lot of work into your projects – would one of you be interested in leading an open-source MetaFilter project? I'd volunteer to help but I'm afraid my PHP skills are barely up to cutting and pasting.
posted by timeistight at 9:09 AM on December 7, 2002

If you are interested, check out the archives of the php-mefi mailing list.
posted by riffola at 9:15 AM on December 7, 2002

if you guys want to upload tarballs to the phpmetafilter sourceforge site, I'd be happy to give anyone access to that.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 9:52 AM on December 7, 2002

uh ... could someone please translate what mathowie just said?
posted by timeistight at 9:58 AM on December 7, 2002

I don't know, but I think it involves a briarpatch.
posted by rushmc at 10:01 AM on December 7, 2002

Nevermind, I think I Googled it out:

if you guys want to upload tarballs to the phpmetafilter sourceforge site, I'd be happy to give anyone access to that.
posted by timeistight at 10:09 AM on December 7, 2002

he's inviting us to an opium party down at the smithy's!
posted by quonsar at 10:15 AM on December 7, 2002

In Windows 95 Lingo: If you guys want to zip up some files and upload them to the website, you'll can get access for that.
posted by blue_beetle at 11:32 AM on December 7, 2002

Does anyone know of any free php/mysql hosts? I want a Phpilfer demo site but don't have a host available (btw, free host lists haven't been any use so far - they either don't have mysql or they disallow forums)
posted by holloway at 2:26 PM on December 7, 2002

Matt (and holloway/skwm/yerfatma) : I'd love to be able to fart around with the code, if any of you were so inclined to make it available. I've been wanting to learn more PHP and ColdFusion!
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 4:38 PM on December 7, 2002

Stavros: Phpilfer is downloadable at the above address. I haven't used Zend Encoder to hide the source.
posted by holloway at 5:24 PM on December 7, 2002