b2 (news)

[Eric]

Hi,

Wow! I was gone for four days on a mini-vacation and came back to find about 40 new posts!

Anyway...I have been checking out the new Auto-Installer section of our new control panel theme "newpanel" and had a question about the b2 (news) program. Basically what is it?

Thanks

-Eric

[bgwen]

If I am correct, I believe b2 is a weblog/journaling/news script that uses PHP and MySQL. It would be something like Blogger (http://www.blogger.com), Greymatter (http://www.noahgrey.com/greysoft/), or Movabletype (http://www.movabletype.org).

Here is a link to b2: http://cafelog.com/

[Eric]

Thanks bgwen! :) for the link! Interesting photo on the main page too!

[Sara]

I had tried to install b2 when I first moved from Grey Matter instead of going right to MT. It's cool how it installs for you now...great tool!

[Sara]

Eric, I'm running b2 here: www.simplysara.com/news and I love it! It's so fast!! I would strongly suggest you install it yourself though. I pushed that install button and it made a new MySQL and put it in news. Which is wonderful, don't get me wrong, but changing url's for a blog is tons of work for some. I did install the upgrade as it's not the latest version in the cpanel. Simple upgrade and now I have smilies and a calendar. :) If you need help holler...I'm super familiar with it now after configuring the templates, etc.

I have now switched to b2...bye-bye MT. Heh.

I will now be able to offer installation and support for b2 to our clients...which totally rox! :D

[SmackDaddy]

Might take you up on that Sara.......gonna try it out for my daughter within the next week or so....

[Eric]

Thanks Sara! I will certainly take advantage of b2 when I get to setting up the blog stuff. Got a bit distracted the last 2 weeks and now the semester is starting soon ! (YIKES!)

[Sara]

Hey SD and Eric, I set up a new MySQL and name for one of my hosting clients last night. I installed b2 from the zip you can get on the b2 site. Not a single problem. Her blog is in a folder named blog, as I didn't use the install through the cpanel.

[Ailish]

As mentioned in another thread, I'm very new to blogging software. I'd installed Movable Type last week, and had started to work at customizing that, though it wasn't a particularly intuitive task.

I decided to play with B2, as well, and so far my impression is that it is much more approachable than Movable Type. I haven't really touched the PHP templates, yet, but I have changed the style sheet to change the appearance.

I still haven't figured out if it'll let me journal with various levels of privacy, but it looks like I'll be able to figure that out more easily than I could have with MT.

I've switched my what's new (http://ailish.net/pb2) page over to B2, from MT (and cut/pasted the prior entries). Oh, and I also did an install of the latest version from the B2 site (http://cafelog.com), since they're reporting a security problem in prior versions (including the one that installs from CPanel). This also let me put it in a directory of my choice.

Ailish