Parasite

What is it:

Parasite is a small blog CMS written with PHP's PEAR::DB.

Features:

Supports Paul Hixie's pingback
HTML-safe highlighting, paginated search
Spell Checking (requires Aspell)
Text-file article upload (additional, not sole method)
Weblogs.com ping
User-definable article templates (complete control over the look of your blog)
Permalinks
Nice URI's for permalinks
Access-key's for most UI features
Article previews
Optional entry titles
Two styles of RSS headlines
register_globals safe

My other blog is usually running the bleeding-edge version of Parasite, so you can see all of the reader-side features (like searching, etc) there.

I don't have a demo of the admin interface, so you'll have to settle for screenshots

Bug Reports/Feature Requests

Don't use this software. It's old and full of holes.

Download:

Requires: A browser that supports cookies,
PHP 4.1+ (with magic_quotes_gpc turned ON)
MySQL or a PEAR::DB supported database
Spell checking requires Aspell

Current version: Parasite v1.0.2

Install:

Download and expand the tarball. Read the README file.

Known Bugs

Opera is not (and will not be) supported for anything other than reading a Parasite site. Parasite has only been tested with MySQL on Debian GNU/Linux, YMMV.

Changes:

Version 1.0.1 --> 1.0.2 06/16/03

Removed MySQL specific AUTOINCREMENT (see UPGRADE)
main.php checks php.ini to see if the gzip handler is on.
Fixed a bug preventing the article deletion from working.
Fixed a bug preventing the article upload from working.
Included a check for PEAR::DB
Cleaned up errors when no articles are present.
Title strings are search highlighted now too.

Version 1.0 --> 1.0.1 05/22/03

Included the correct user.php
Included the correct editor.css-dist

Version 0.0 --> 1.0 05/10/03

Initial Release

Older changes

Parasite uses Simon Willison's SpellChecker class, Keith Devens' XMLRPC class. Parasite also uses icons created by Jimmac. Many thanks to those authors for releasing their work as Free Software.