KillaBlogs V-2

mobil1_oils · Post by **mobil1_oils** » Sun Jul 10, 2005 3:52 am

[b][i][color=\"gray\"][font=\"tahoma\"]Just wondering if when KB2 is released, will there be a way to save your own archives to hard drive? If yes, will you be able to do it as the whole lot at once, or page by page, because i just realised i have like 19 pages.

Also, the link to the ToS and support link on KB need to be changed, they still lead to forums.killagraphix.com, and when it redirects, it redirects to the homepage, so you still have to search for the link, lol. [/b][/i][/color][/font]

Post by **NightStorm** » Sun Jul 10, 2005 4:27 am

I imagine the finalized TOS will be on it's own page on killablogs once things are settled into their spots... right now, blogs is still under development.
As for saving it to a hard drive, I don't see why not... well, in a matter of speaking, anyway. Next time I see Vulture, I'll ask him if there is a way to output the posts into an HTML saved document that can be downloaded (like how Geocities used to handle their 'guestbooks').

Post by **Scott** » Sun Jul 10, 2005 9:50 am

KB2 is not long off...if I get my head down, it should only be a few weeks off. As for saving, this is something I am not sure how to go about. I've had a few ideas such as an XML file which included the post + comments but stripped of all bbcode. I was then thinking of one HTML page with all the posts made in a certain month (it would be quite a long page, so I would probably .tar/.zip it up and make it a download). This then presents another problem with the comments. I'm going to look around and see if I can spot any other methods used, if you have an idea - feel free to share it.

As for TOS, its up [url=\"http://www.killablogs.com/index.php?opt=tos\"]here[/url]. The Support won't redirect to the forums, instead there will be an faq script (I hope). <img src=\'http://www.killanet.net/forum3/public/s ... /smile.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\':)\' />

mobil1_oils · Post by **mobil1_oils** » Sun Jul 10, 2005 3:24 pm

[b][i][color=\"gray\"][font=\"tahoma\"]The one stripped of all BBcode sounds okay, but then i'm guessing you would have problems showing images (even if they were just linked to their hosting). As for the HTML one, it sounds like the jack of all trades at the moment, especially having it sorted into months and stuff, but only if you can find a way to export the comments with it. I mean most the comments are where the good stuff is on most blogs i read lol.

I guess when you think about it, exporting posts with comments is going to be quite a problem, i mean my blog has 19 pages of main posts alone, and then comments are a link behind that, which is going to make quite the donk to download at once i'd imagine. Maybe export each post as it's own, with the date as a file name, then a separate file for comments. Zip it all and offer the .zip as a download. Ofcourse being the size the file would be, you'd have to implicate some feature to limit people exporting the whole lot, IE only one export per month allowed or something like that.

Like:
Month\Date.html
Month\Date-comments.html

so it would be
May\25-05-05.html
May\25-05-05-comments.html

And for days with doubleposts, possibly get it to add a (2) or something to the end of them.

Ofcourse i have no idea on coding and stuff, never looked that far into it, so i'm not sure how difficult that would be to work, but if you can find a way, i figure thats probably the easiest way of doing it, either make the dates as filenames, or even the name of the post as filenames instead of the date, but then also many blogs have double and even triple posts by the same name. [/b][/i][/color][/font]

Post by **Scott** » Sun Jul 10, 2005 6:12 pm

I'm against the XML because it would be so limited. What I was thinking was mabye instead of post + comment in seperate files, just combine them in a threaded version with no skin at all, something like this: [url=\"http://www.killagraphix.com/lofiversion/index.php/t5280.html\"]clickety[/url]

The bbcode would still show, as would image links (although this will be impossible to include in the zip).

This is quite a bit of work, but its all possible. At least if it was HTML then it wouldn't be annoying to view. Will let you know how this develops as I implement it.

mobil1_oils · Post by **mobil1_oils** » Mon Jul 11, 2005 11:18 am

[b][i][color=\"gray\"][font=\"tahoma\"]That one looks pretty good, i think it's probably the best bet to put into effect. And with the image links, all you would really have to do is provide a link to where the images are hosted, not include the image in the zip, because obviously if you did that, then not only is it going to take the user a few more years to download (especially dialup users) but put an amazing amount of unneeded strain on the server. Besides, the lowfi version is all you really need, most people are just going to want a backup of what was said and posted, not the whole graphic interface the blog itself would have. [/b][/i][/color][/font]

Post by **Scott** » Fri Jul 15, 2005 9:41 pm

Well, here's the story so far. A new page is available on the member side of things "Export Blog Posts". This gives you a month & year to select from. If no posts are found in your selected month & year...you get an error. If someone else tries to export while you're exporting, they get blocked and have to wait. If you do have valid posts, then you'll get offered with a .tar (.zip didn't like me)...the .tar contains html files. This is my export for July - let me know theme comments/concerns.

Rift · Post by **Rift** » Fri Jul 15, 2005 9:45 pm

[quote name=\'Vulture\' date=\'Jul 15 2005, 04:41 PM\']Well, here's the story so far. A new page is available on the member side of things "Export Blog Posts". This gives you a month & year to select from. If no posts are found in your selected month & year...you get an error. If someone else tries to export while you're exporting, they get blocked and have to wait. If you do have valid posts, then you'll get offered with a .tar (.zip didn't like me)...the .tar contains html files. This is my export for July - let me know theme comments/concerns.
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Is this on KB2 or KB1, atm?

Post by **Scott** » Fri Jul 15, 2005 9:46 pm

KB2, but this isn't uploaded anywhere yet.

mobil1_oils · Post by **mobil1_oils** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 11:03 am

[b][i][color="gray"][font="tahoma"] I can't download the file unfortunately. Anything that gets uploaded as a direct attachment to the forum i can't read, i always get the following response: [quote]ERROR
The requested URL could not be retrieved

While trying to process the request:

GET /index.php?act=Attach&type=post&id=1208 HTTP/1.1
Host: www.killagraphix.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 300
Connection: keep-alive
Referer: [url="http://www.killagraphix.com/index.php?s ... =5280&st=0&"]<a href="http://www.killagraphix.com/index.php" target="_blank"><a href="http://www.killagraphix.com/index.php" target="_blank">http://www.killagraphix.com/index.php[/url]</a>?
showtopic=5280&st=0&://http://www.killagraphix.com/index.p...o ... 0&st=0&</a>
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%3Bi%3A5280%3Bi%3A1121511298%3B%7D

The following error was encountered:

* Invalid Response

The HTTP Response message received from the contacted server could not be understood or was otherwise malformed. Please contact the site operator. Your cache administrator may be able to provide you with more details about the exact nature of the problem if needed.

Your cache administrator is squid@tpgi.com.au
Generated 16/Jul/2005:20:56:09 +1000 by syd-pow-pr1.tpgi.com.au[/quote]

I've written to my ISP about it about 5 minutes ago, i'll let you admins know what their response is. Anyone else get this problem? And would someone possibly be able to email the file to me at mobil1oils@gmail.com , thanks. [/b][/i][/color][/font]

ner0 · Post by **ner0** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 12:36 pm

*emailed*

mobil1_oils · Post by **mobil1_oils** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 2:45 pm

[b][i][color=\"gray\"][font=\"tahoma\"]Thanks ner0, got it <img src=\'http://www.killanet.net/forum3/public/s ... iggrin.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\':D\' />. Everyone else dun worry bout emailing it, i got it.

Vul: I think that would be perfect for what i'm and everyone else would probably be after. It's practical, and simple, and shows exactly what it's meant to. It even has some formatting to it too, so it even looks clean. [/b][/i][/color][/font]