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| Geeklog Documentation - Configuration |
GeekLog Configuration File
Setting up config.php
Most of Geeklog's "static" settings (i.e. those that you aren't going to change often) are set in a text file called config.php. It is necessary to edit this file to get your system running as well as configuring it to your preferences. This file contains a set of variables as defined below:
- Database Settings
- Server Settings
- Site Settings
- Locale Settings
- Session Settings
- Cookie Names
- E-Mail Settings
- Login Settings
- Submission Settings
- Topic, What's New & E-mail Settings
- Calendar Settings
- Story Settings
- Comment Settings
- Poll Settings
- Image Settings
- Syndication Settings
- Content Control Settings
- URL Rewriting
Database Settings
| Variable | Default Value | Description |
|---|---|---|
| _DB_dbms | mysql | Do not change! This tells Geeklog that it is using a MySQL database - and currently, that is the only type of database that is supported. |
| _DB_host | localhost | Database Server (to be entered in the form: hostname:port:unixsocket). In most cases you won't need to change the default value. |
| _DB_name | geeklog | Database Name |
| _DB_user | root | Database User Account |
| _DB_pass | null | Database User Password |
| _DB_table_prefix | gl_ | Prefix to put in front of all of Geeklog's table names (to avoid name collisions with tables used by other applications) |
| _DB_mysqldump_path | /usr/bin/mysqldump | Complete path to the mysqldump utility (part of MySQL) for making backups of your Geeklog database |
| allow_mysqldump | 1 | Enable or disable the backup functionality (1 = on, 0 = off) |
| mysqldump_options | -Q | Here you can include additional options for the mysqldump call that Geeklog uses to create a backup from your database. |
Server Settings
| Variable | Default Value | Description |
|---|---|---|
| path | /path/to/geeklog/ | Base file system path for your site (trailing slash necessary) |
| path_system | /path/to/geeklog/system/ | Path to your system directory for your site (trailing slash necessary). This directory holds the code libraries used throughout Geeklog |
| path_html | /path/to/geeklog/public_html/ | Path to your web tree directory for your site (trailing slash necessary). This directory holds all the web pages used by Geeklog. |
| path_images | /path/to/geeklog/public_html/images/ | Path where Geeklog expects to find its images, including user photos and images for stories. |
| path_log | /path/to/geeklog/logs/ | File system path for the log files |
| path_language | /path/to/geeklog/language/ | location of the Geeklog language files |
| backup_path | /path/to/geeklog/backups/ | location where mysqldump (see above) will store database backups |
| path_data | /path/to/geeklog/data/ | File system path for the data directory, used e.g. for the user batch add feature |
Site Settings
| Variable | Default Value | Description |
|---|---|---|
| site_name | GeekLog Site | Name of your site |
| site_slogan | Another Nifty GeekLog Site | Slogan for your site. This is added to the HTML title field. |
| site_mail | admin@example.com | E-mail address for all admin mail |
| site_url | http://www.example.com | Base URL for your site (no trailing slash) |
| theme | professional | Default theme to use on the site |
| layout_url | Site URL path, with layout dir and default layout | Location of the default layout |
| path_themes | /path/to/geeklog/public_html/layout/ | Directory where all themes reside |
| path_layout | /path/to/geeklog/public_html/layout/professional/ | Path to current theme directory |
| allow_user_themes | Can be 1 or 0 | If set to 1, users can set their own theme that the site uses |
| allow_user_language | Can be 1 or 0 | If set to 1, users can select the language for the site navigation |
| allow_user_photo | Can be 1 or 0 | If set to 1, users can upload a photo to their profile |
| hide_author_exclusion | Can be 1 or 0 | If set to 1, the option to to exclude certain authors from being seen is hidden from the user's preferences. |
| remoteauthentication | false | Allow (when set to true) users who already have
an account with some other service to log into your Geeklog site with the
login for that service. Currently supported: Blogger and LiveJournal. Please note that to enable login for a specific service, you need an authorization class in system/classes/authentication. If you only want to allow Blogger but not LiveJournal users (or vice versa), simply remove the class file for the unwanted service(s). |
| show_servicename | true | If you allow users to log in with accounts on remote services (like Blogger or LiveJournal), this option will at the service's name to the username to avoid confusion with local users of the same name. Set to false to disable. |
| site_enabled | true | A Geeklog site can be disabled quickly (e.g. for maintenance) by setting this to 'false'. |
| site_disabled_msg | 'Geeklog Site is down. Please come back soon.' | This contains the message to display when a Geeklog site is disabled. If the text begins with "http:" then visitors are redirected to that URL. |
| sort_admin | false | If set to true will sort the entries in the Admin's block and the icons on the Submissions page (moderation.php) alphabetically. |
| link_documentation | 1 | Add a link to Geeklog's documentation to the Admin block. Set this to 0 if you don't want that link to show up. |
| menu_elements | array('contribute', 'calendar', 'search', 'stats',
'directory', 'plugins') |
Specifies which entries are displayed in the site's menu bar
(if your theme uses the {menu_elements} variable to display
the menu bar). Can be any combination of 'home',
'contribute', 'calendar', 'search',
'directory', 'prefs', 'plugins',
and 'custom' where 'plugins' is the same as the
{plg_menu_elements} variable, i.e. a list of the menu entries
provided by plugins, and 'custom' displays the entries returned by
a custom function CUSTOM_menuEntries (see
lib-custom.php for details). |
Locale Settings
| Variable | Default Value | Description |
|---|---|---|
| language | english | Name of your language file. Additional language files may be available for download at http://www.geeklog.net. If you translate a language file, please send it to us. Also see Localization below. |
| locale | en-gb | Locale for the system |
| date | %A, %B %d %Y @ %I:%M %p %Z | Date format used for most of the site, including story displays. See date formats below. |
| daytime | %m/%d %I:%M%p | Date format used when a shorter date is needed. See date formats below. |
| shortdate | %x | Date format this is the shortest date. See date formats below. |
| dateonly | %d-%b | Short date format (day and month only), to be used e.g. in the Upcoming Events and Older Stories blocks. See date formats below. |
| timeonly | %I:%M %p %Z | Format string for the time only, to be used e.g. on the Event Details page. See date formats below. |
| week_start | Sun | First day of the week in the calendar. Can be either 'Sun' (Sunday) or 'Mon' (Monday). |
| default_charset | iso-8859-1 | Character encoding used by Geeklog when serving HTML pages or sending email. Only used if the language file did not already set another character encoding. |
Session Settings
| Variable | Default Value | Description |
|---|---|---|
| cookie_ip | 0 | Session ID to contain IP address of user as well as random number. This is more secure but will more than likely require dialed up users to login each and every time. (0=no, 1=yes) |
| default_perm_cookie_timeout | 28800 | Permanent cookie timeout in seconds (28800 = 8 hours). |
| session_cookie_timeout | 7200 | Session cookie timeout (in seconds). |
| cookie_path | / | Cookie path (see the PHP manual for details). |
| cookiedomain | (empty) | The domain that the cookie is available. Geeklog will attempt to guess the correct value for this setting (based on the 'site_url' variable). See the PHP manual for details. |
| cookiesecure | 0 | Only set to 1 if your site uses HTTPS (see the PHP manual for details). |
Cookie Names
These variables define the names of all of Geeklog's cookies. They can easily be changed in case there's a name collision with the cookies used by some other software package that you may use on your site.
| Variable | Default Value | Description |
|---|---|---|
| cookie_session | gl_session | Name of the cookie that stores the session ID. |
| cookie_name | geeklog | Name of the permanent cookie. |
| cookie_password | password | Name of the password cookie. |
| cookie_theme | theme | Name of the theme cookie. |
| cookie_language | language | Name of the language cookie. |
E-Mail Settings
Starting with Geeklog 1.3.9, Geeklog uses the PEAR::Mail class to send all
emails. You can then select whether emails should be sent through SMTP,
sendmail, or PHP's mail() function.
Within $_CONF['mail_settings'] you have the following
options:
| Variable | Default Value | Description |
|---|---|---|
| backend | Used to select how to send email. Can be one of 'smtp', 'sendmail', or 'mail'. | |
| sendmail_path | /usr/bin/sendmail | If you chose 'sendmail' for the backend setting, this specifies the complete path to the sendmail binary. |
| sendmail_args | '' (empty) | If you chose 'sendmail' for the backend setting, this variable can be used to pass additional parameters to the sendmail binary. |
| host | smtp.example.com | If you chose 'smtp' for the backend setting, this is the SMTP server to use. |
| port | 25 | If you chose 'smtp' for the backend setting, this is the port number to talk to on the SMTP server. |
| auth | false | If you chose 'smtp' for the backend setting, set this to
true if your SMTP server requires authorization, and
false if it doesn't. |
| username | smtp-username | If you chose 'smtp' for the backend setting, this is the name of your SMTP account. |
| password | smtp-password | If you chose 'smtp' for the backend setting, this is the password for your SMTP account. |
Login Settings
| Variable | Default Value | Description |
|---|---|---|
| loginrequired | 0 | Login is required to access any part of the site. When set to 1, this overrides the following settings. When you only want to block access to certain parts of the site, set this to 0 and select from the following settings. |
| submitloginrequired | 0 | When set to 1, only registered users can submit stories and events |
| commentsloginrequired | 0 | When set to 1, only registered users can submit comments |
| calendarloginrequired | 0 | When set to 1, only registered users can access the calendar |
| statsloginrequired | 0 | When set to 1, only registered users can access the site stats |
| searchloginrequired | 0 | When set to 1, only registered users can use the advanced search. When set to 2, the simple search is blocked for anonymous users, too. |
| profileloginrequired | 0 | When set to 1, only registered users can view another user's profile |
| emailuserloginrequired | 0 | When set to 1, only registered users can use the email submission form to send an email to another user |
| emailstoryloginrequired | 0 | When set to 1, only registered users can email stories |
| directoryloginrequired | 0 | When set to 1, only registered users can access the list of past articles |
Submission Settings
| Variable | Default Value | Description |
|---|---|---|
| storysubmission | 1 | Enable (1) or disable (0) the story submission queue |
| eventsubmission | 1 | Enable (1) or disable (0) the event submission queue |
| usersubmission | 0 | Enable (1) or disable (0) the user submission queue (i.e. new users must be approved before they receive their password) |
| disable_new_user_registration | false | When set to true completely disables all options to sign up as a new user. |
| allow_domains | '' | When user submission is enabled this can contain a comma-separated list
of domain names from which user submissions will not be queued (but
approved automatically).
Example: 'mycompany.com,myothercompany.com' |
| notification | array() | Send an email notification to $_CONF['site_email']
when a new story, comment, event, trackback or pingback has been submitted
or a new user has registered with the site. The array() can hold
any combination of the strings 'story', 'comment',
'trackback', 'pingback', 'event', and
'user' (separated by commas), depending on which notification(s)
you want. Example: array('story','user'); would
send notifications when a new story has been submitted or a new user has
registered. No notifications would be sent, for example, for new
events. |
| listdraftstories | 0 | When set to 1, this will display an additional block on the submissions page (moderation.php) that lists all the stories that have the 'draft' flag set. |
| postmode | plaintext | Sets the default submission mode to 'html' or 'plaintext' |
| speedlimit | 45 | Minimum delay between submissions in seconds. This helps prevent Denial of Service (DOS) attacks |
| skip_preview | 0 | If 1, allows submission of stories and comments without previewing (i.e. the submission form will always have a Preview and a Submit button). |
| trackback_enabled | true | Enable (true) or disable (true) trackback comments. This applies to both sending and receiving trackback comments. |
| pingback_enabled | true | Enable (true) or disable (true) pingback support. This applies to both sending and receiving pingbacks. |
| ping_enabled | true | Enable (true) or disable (true) the ability to ping weblog directory services like blo.gs. |
| trackback_code | 0 | Default value for new stories: Trackback enabled (0) or disabled (-1) |
| multiple_trackbacks | 0 | How to handle multiple trackbacks and pingbacks from the same source: 0 = keep only the first, reject any further trackbacks / pingbacks; 1 = overwrite, i.e. only keep the latest trackback / pingback; 2 = allow multiple trackbacks / pingbacks, i.e. list them all |
| pingback_self | 0 | Pingbacks are sent out automatically to all the
URLs linked from a story - which includes stories on your own site that
you may have linked in the article. This option lets you specify how these
"self pingbacks" are to be handled: 0 = skip them, i.e. don't send pingbacks
to stories on your own site; 1 = allow them, but obey the speed limit;
2 = allow them and ignore the speed limit. If your article contains more than one link to other stories on your site, then option 1 is probably of limited use, as it would only pingback the first linked story and run into the speed limit for the others. |
| advanced_editor | false | Enable (if set to true) a WYSIWYG editor for
story and comment submissions and static pages. Geeklog ships with FCKeditor. |
Topic, What's New & E-mail Settings
| Variable | Default Value | Description |
|---|---|---|
| sortmethod | sortnum | alpha = Sort topics in topic list alphabetically sortnum = Sort topics in topic list by sort number |
| showstorycount | 1 | Show the number of stories in a topic in the Sections block (0=no, 1=yes) |
| showsubmissioncount | 1 | Show the number of story submissions for a topic in the Sections block (0=no, 1=yes) |
| hide_home_link | 0 | Hide the "Home" link from the Sections block (0=no, 1=yes) |
| whosonline_threshold | 300 | How long, in seconds, users can be idle before removing them from the whosonline block |
| whosonline_anonymous | 0 | If enabled (i.e. set to 1), anonymous users will only see the number of registered users currently online in the Who's Online block but not their names. Only logged-in users will see the names of other users that are currently online. |
| emailstories | 0 | Let users get stories e-mailed to them (0=no, 1=yes), aka Daily Digest. Please note that this requires cron and the use of PHP as a shell script. |
| emailstorieslength | 1 | When emailstories (above) is enabled, send only the title and the link to the new stories (0), or send the entire introtext (1) or send the first n characters from the introtext (where n = any other number) |
| emailstoriesperdefault | 0 | When set to 1, new users will be subscribed to the daily digest automatically when they register with the site. |
| newstoriesinterval | 86400 | Stories are "new" if they are this many seconds old. |
| newcommentsinterval | 172800 | Comments are "new" if they are this many seconds old. |
| newtrackbackinterval | 172800 | Trackback comments are "new" if they are this many seconds old. |
| hidenewstories | 0 | Set to 1 to hide new stories from the What's New block. |
| hidenewcomments | 0 | Set to 1 to hide new comments from the What's New block. |
| hidenewtrackbacks | 0 | Set to 1 to hide new trackback comments from the What's New block. |
| hidenewplugins | 0 | Set to 1 to hide new entries by plugins from the What's New block. |
| copyrightyear | (commented out) | Set this to the year you want to appear in the copyright notice of your site's footer. If not set, Geeklog will use the current year. |
| allow_username_change | 0 | If set to 1, users will be allowed to change their username (login name). Stories and comments posted under the old username will automatically show the new username. |
| allow_account_delete | 0 | If set to 1, users will be allowed to delete their accounts. Stories and comments posted under that account will be kept and show up as being posted by "Anonymous". |
| passwordspeedlimit | 300 | Minimum delay between two requests for a new password, in seconds. |
| ip_lookup | not set | The IP addresses of comment posters are logged and displayed for admin users. When this variable is set to point to a service that can do IP address lookups, it's possible to lookup the owner of an IP address by clicking on it, making it easier to report abuse to ISPs, etc.$_CONF['ip_lookup'] should hold the complete URL to the lookup service, with a '*' marking the place where the IP address should go. It's also possible to use Tom Willet's NetTools package, in which case the correct setting would be $_CONF['ip_lookup'] = $_CONF['site_url'] . '/nettools/whois.php?domain=*'; |
| num_search_results | 10 | Number of search results per page (and per type). |
Calendar Settings
| Variable | Default Value | Description |
|---|---|---|
| personalcalendars | 0 | Allow account holders to have a personal calendar |
| showupcomingevents | 1 | Show up-coming events (0=no, 1=yes) |
| upcomingeventsrange | 14 | Number of days that "Upcoming Events" will look ahead. |
| event_types | Anniversary, Appointment, Birthday, Business, Education, Holiday, Meeting, Miscellaneous, Personal, Phone Call, Special Occasion, Travel, Vacation | The set of event types that are used both on the public calendar and the user's personal calendars |
Story Settings
| Variable | Default Value | Description |
|---|---|---|
| maximagesperarticle | 5 | max. number of images you can have in a story |
| limitnews | 10 | Number of stories to limit the index page to, this same number will appear in the older stuff block |
| minnews | 1 | Minimum numbers of stories than can appear on a topic page |
| contributedbyline | 1 | Show author username to public, and enable search by username (0=no, 1=yes) |
| article_image_align | right | Which side of article the topic image should be shown (right or left) |
| show_topic_icon | 1 | Default setting for new stories and story submissions: Whether to show the topic icon (1) or not (0). |
| hideemailicon | 0 | When set to 1, this will disable the ability to send a story by email. It will also hide the email icon from stories and the "Email Article To a Friend" from the Story Options block. |
| hideprintericon | 0 | When set to 1, this will disable display of a story in a "printer friendly" format. It will also hide the printer icon from stories and the "View Printable Version" from the Story Options block. |
| show_right_blocks | false | If set to true, the right-side column of blocks will be displayed on all pages (instead of only on the index page). |
| showfirstasfeatured | 0 | When set to 1, this will render the first story on any page using the templates for a featured story, even if that story is not featured. This will even be applied to the first story on page 2 of a topic page, for example. |
| left_blocks_in_footer | 0 | When set to 1, this will make the {left_blocks}
variable available in footer.thtml (and disable it in
header.thtml). This is really only useful for two-column layouts
where you want the left column contain the stories and the right columni
contain the standard blocks. |
Comment Settings
| Variable | Default Value | Description |
|---|---|---|
| commentspeedlimit | 45 | Number of seconds between posting a comment for the user |
| comment_limit | 100 | Most number of comments to show at any one time |
| comment_mode | threaded | How to display comments (threaded, nested, flat or nocomments) |
| comment_code | 0 | Default value for new stories: Comments enabled (0) or disabled (-1) |
Poll Settings
| Variable | Default Value | Description |
|---|---|---|
| maxanswers | 10 | Maximum number of possible answers for the poll editor |
| answerorder | submitorder | Sort answers by the number of results ('voteorder') or keep the order in which they were entered ('submitorder') |
| pollcookietime | 86400 | Number of seconds to set a poll answer cookie to time out on |
| polladdresstime | 604800 | Number of seconds to set a poll answer IP address to time out on |
Image Settings
| Variable | Default Value | Description |
|---|---|---|
| image_lib | '' (empty string) | Set this to either 'imagemagick', 'netpbm', or 'gdlib' if images should be resized during upload. Leave as '' if you don't want images to be resized or if you don't have those packages available. |
| path_to_mogrify | (commented out) | If you chose 'imagemagick' for $_CONF['image_lib'] above,
then this should hold the complete path to the mogrify
executable (from the ImageMagick package), e.g. '/usr/bin/mogrify'. You will need a fairly recent version of ImageMagick for this to work (version 5.4.9 or newer is recommended). |
| path_to_netpbm | (commented out) | If you chose 'netpbm' for $_CONF['image_lib'] above, then
this should hold the complete path to the directory where the
binaries from the netpbm package are kept, e.g. '/usr/bin/netpbm/'. Note
that the path must end in a slash. Precompiled binaries of the netpbm package for various platforms can be downloaded from the Homepage of the Gallery project. |
| keep_unscaled_image | 0 | Set this to 1 if you want Geeklog to keep the original, unscaled images after upload. The smaller image will then be used as a thumbnail and will link to the original image. Note that this may use a lot of disk space (depending on the size of your images). |
| allow_user_scaling | 1 | When unscaled images are kept (see above), this option lets
the user chose between using the scaled or unscaled image in the story, i.e.
enables the [unscaledX] image tag (in addition to the
[imageX] tag). |
| max_image_width | 160 | Max. width of an image in pixels. If it exceeds this, it is either rejected or resized (depending on the setting of $_CONF['image_lib'] above). |
| max_image_height | 120 | Max. height of an image in pixels. If it exceeds this, it is either rejected or resized (depending on the setting of $_CONF['image_lib'] above). |
| max_image_size | 1048576 (equals 1 MB) | Max. size of an image in bytes. If it exceeds this, it is is rejected (even if you're using a graphics package to resize images). |
| max_topicicon_width | 48 | Max. width of a topic icon in pixels. If it exceeds this, it is either rejected or resized (depending on the setting of $_CONF['image_lib'] above). |
| max_topicicon_height | 48 | Max. height of a topic icon in pixels. If it exceeds this, it is either rejected or resized (depending on the setting of $_CONF['image_lib'] above). |
| max_topicicon_size | 65536 (equals 64 KB) | Max. size of a user photo in bytes. If it exceeds this, it is rejected (even if you're using a graphics package to resize images). |
User photo
Additional options for the user photo.
| Variable | Default Value | Description |
|---|---|---|
| max_photo_width | 128 | Max. width of a user photo in pixels. If it exceeds this, it is either rejected or resized (depending on the setting of $_CONF['image_lib'] above). |
| max_photo_height | 128 | Max. height of a user photo in pixels. If it exceeds this, it is either rejected or resized (depending on the setting of $_CONF['image_lib'] above). |
| max_photo_size | 65536 (equals 64 KB) | Max. size of a user photo in bytes. If it exceeds this, it is rejected (even if you're using a graphics package to resize images). |
| use_gravatar | false | If enabled (set to true), a user's avatar image will
be requested from gravatar.com if the
user didn't upload a user photo (i.e. an uploaded photo always takes
priority). Please note that this option may slow down your site on pages that display a lot of userphotos for different users (e.g. forum threads). |
| gravatar_rating | (commented out) | Avatars submitted to gravatar.com are rated with the rating system used for movies (in the U.S.), i.e. the letters G, PG, R, or X. This option will let you chose the maximum allowed rating for an avatar. For example, a max. rating of R will make sure that no X-rated avatars will be displayed on your site (only G, PG, and R). |
| force_photo_width | (commented out) | This option, when enabled, will only apply when
displaying a user photo. The <img> tag for the
user photo will be emitted with a max. width, as specified by this option.
This means that the actual photo can still be larger, but will only be
displayed smaller. This is useful for cases where you don't want oddly
shaped user photos to break your page's layout (e.g. in a forum). |
| default_photo | (commented out) | When enabled, this option should point to an image (full URL required!) that should be displayed for users without a user photo. When this option is not set and a user does not have a user photo (or an avatar) then Geeklog will simply not display anything. |
Syndication Settings
Geeklog can export its headlines to a news feed in various formats (RSS, RDF, and Atom). This will let you share your news with other sites (Hint: Create a Portal block from Geeklog's Block menu to import news feeds from other sites).
Starting with Geeklog 1.3.9, feeds can be created and configured from Geeklog's Admin menu ("Content Syndication"). The following settings will only be used as the default settings for any new feeds that you create from the admin panel.
| Variable | Default Value | Description |
|---|---|---|
| backend | 1 | Create a feed file for the stories in rdf_file (0=no, 1=yes) |
| rdf_file | HTML path with "/backend/geeklog.rss" suffix | File system path for the feed file. This file allows you to share your site's headlines with others |
| rdf_language | en-gb | Value for the feed's language tag. Depending on your site's language and operating system, this may differ from the language setting in the locale (see above). Example: The PHP locale setting for German is 'de_DE' while the correct language setting for a German RSS feed would be 'de-DE' (note the dash instead of the underscore). |
| rdf_limit | 10 | Limit the number of stories to export to the news feed. If the value for this setting is a number, the feed will hold this many stories. If the number is followed by a lower-case 'h' (e.g. 24h) it denotes the number of hours from which to chose the stories. |
| rdf_storytext | 0 | If this value is 1, then the entire introtext of the stories will be included in the news feed. Any number greater than 1 limits the introtext to that many characters (e.g. a value of 80 would only include the first 80 characters from the introtext in the feed). If set to 0, the introtext is not included in the feed. |
| syndication_max_headlines | 0 | Upper limit for the max. number of headlines when importing a feed (into a portal block). The limit can also be set for each individual portal block in the block menu. When set to 0, all headlines are imported. |
Content Control Settings
| Variable | Default Value | Description |
|---|---|---|
| user_html | <p>, <b>, <i>, <a>, <em>, <br>, <tt>, <hr>, <ol>, <ul>, <li>, <code>, <pre> | HTML tags and attributes that normal users are allowed to use in story submissions and comments. |
| admin_html | additional HTML tags, e.g. for tables | HTML tags and attributes that admin users are allowed to use (in addition to those from user_html). Redefining a tag with additional attributes will overwrite the definition from user_html. |
| allowed_protocols | array ('http', 'https', 'ftp'); | Defines which protocols are allowed in links (i.e. HTML
<a> tags). |
| disable_autolinks | 0 | If set to 1, disables the autolinks. I.e. links using the [story:] etc. syntax are not interpreted any more. |
| censormode | 1 | Censor submissions and comments (0=no, 1=yes) |
| censorreplace | *censored* | Text to replace a censored word with |
| censorlist | array("fuck", "cunt", "fucker", "fucking", "pussy", "cock", "c0ck", "cum", "twat", "clit", "bitch", "fuk", "fuking", "motherfucker") | An array of censored words |
URL Rewriting
Geeklog includes a simple but useful URL rewriting feature which can help make your site more crawler friendly (i.e. the URLs of your site are more likely to be picked up by the search engine's indexing bots). This feature is supported for URLs to stories, static pages, the article directory, and links.
URL rewriting means that your URLs will look like this
http://www.geeklog.net/article.php/20021022234959146
instead of like this
http://www.geeklog.net/article.php?story=20021022234959146
While some search engines will pick up the second form, Google seems to prefer the first format and completely ignores the second format.
Note: This feature may not work with all web servers. It is known to work with Apache (all versions) and known not to work with IIS (at least some versions). Please try it out before you go public with your site.
| Variable | Default Value | Description |
|---|---|---|
| url_rewrite | false | Enable (true) or disable (false) URL rewriting. |
Localization
Localizing GeekLog is fairly easy. All strings are contained in a language file. The default file that ships with the tarball is english.php. People interested in translating Geeklog to other languages are encouraged to join the geeklog-translations mailing list. All important information concerning translating Geeklog will be posted there.
Locale and Date Formats
You can set the locale and date format in the config.php file. To set the locale, set the variable to the proper string or if you leave it blank it will pull the default locale from the operating system. The date formats are handled by your locale. Isn't that smart? Locale names are OS dependent. On most UNIX hosts, you can find locale codes in the /usr/share/locale/locale.alias file and on some systems the command locale -a will display all available locales on a system. If a locale doesn't exist you can create it using the localedef command.
More info on locale: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xbd/locale.html
More info on localdef: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xcu/localedef.html
Date Format Syntax
- %a - abbreviated weekday name according to the current locale
- %A - full weekday name according to the current locale
- %b - abbreviated month name according to the current locale
- %B - full month name according to the current locale
- %c - preferred date and time representation for the current locale
- %C - century number (the year divided by 100 and truncated to an integer, range 00 to 99)
- %d - day of the month as a decimal number (range 00 to 31)
- %D - same as %m/%d/%y
- %e - day of the month as a decimal number, a single digit is preceded by a space (range ' 1' to '31')
- %h - same as %b
- %H - hour as a decimal number using a 24-hour clock (range 00 to 23)
- %I - hour as a decimal number using a 12-hour clock (range 01 to 12)
- %j - day of the year as a decimal number (range 001 to 366)
- %m - month as a decimal number (range 1 to 12)
- %M - minute as a decimal number
- %n - newline character
- %p - either `am' or `pm' according to the given time value, or the corresponding strings for the current locale
- %r - time in a.m. and p.m. notation
- %R - time in 24 hour notation
- %S - second as a decimal number
- %t - tab character
- %T - current time, equal to %H:%M:%S
- %u - weekday as a decimal number [1,7], with 1 representing Monday
- %U - week number of the current year as a decimal number, starting with the first Sunday as the first day of the first week
- %V - The ISO 8601:1988 week number of the current year as a decimal number, range 01 to 53, where week 1 is the first week that has at least 4 days in the current year, and with Monday as the first day of the week.
- %W - week number of the current year as a decimal number, starting with the first Monday as the first day of the first week
- %w - day of the week as a decimal, Sunday being 0
- %x - preferred date representation for the current locale without the time
- %X - preferred time representation for the current locale without the date
- %y - year as a decimal number without a century (range 00 to 99)
- %Y - year as a decimal number including the century
- %Z - time zone or name or abbreviation
- %% - a literal `%' character
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