SpiderRoll

Last updated March 17, 2007

SpiderRoll is an open source content management/blog framework that supports the following features:

• multi-page stories
• embedded images in stories
• an optional teaser image (instead of a fixed topic-image) for each story
• user comments
• support for Gallery as a plugin

In the future, it will also support:

• multi-page story tangents or sidebars
• ability to publish to static HTML files (easier for user to bookmark, better performance)

SpiderRoll is written in PHP, using the ADOdb database abstraction layer.

My personal blog is running the latest stable release of SpiderRoll (0.2).

I expect to release verion 0.04 by the end of May, 2007.

Release History

Version 0.03a

Latest stable Released 17 March, 2007

• Image Captcha for user registration
• Improve "Order Articles", add true archiving.
• Add "next story in toic" navigation in story pages.
• Allow user to edit basic member data (name, password, email)

Version 0.03

Released 27 January, 2007

• Enabled anonymous comments
• Captcha for comment submission

Version 0.02

• Add older stories link to managestories page
• Add preview function to story submission page.
• User registration
• User comments

Version 0.01

1. Fix breadcrumb in Big Ideas story pages
2. Set title from stories
3. Fix Gallery User-logged-in problem
4. Add dateline modification to story submission page
5. Slug-based URLs instead of cgi-style (parameterized)
6. Migrate music page
7. Map URLs from old PHPNuke site to new site
8. Migrate requenes.com to spiderroll

Roadmap/To do

Version 0.04

• mostly doneMigrate old, multi-page stories to spiderroll
• doneRemove hard-coded Requenes.com-isms.
• startedUser management
• startedAdd permissions.
• Clean up story submission forms/process.
• Deploy EmmaCrosby.com

Version 0.05

• Integrate Gallery2 for image asset management (maybe)
• Image upload
• Image grab from URI
• started Image resizing/thumbnail generation
• done? Story image slideshow

Version 0.06

• Allow admin to edit users
• User settings and preferences management
• startedTopic creation/management
• Editor's picks: highlight the best, least dated, stories.
• started Code cleanup, coding standards, naming conventions

Version 0.07

• Story series
• Related stories
• Story tangents/sidebars

Version 0.08

• Template-based layout
• Caching/HTML file output

Version 0.09

Version 0.10

Version 0.11