LiteDoodle is a Free Software program that is used to create simple, lightweight comic/image blogs with RSS feeds and a commenting system. I created this as a way to host my cartoon strips because there really is no simple, easy to use PHP blog software that is specific for comic strips.
LiteDoodle is meant to be very easy to use, with little configuration options and to be updated easily (as easily as uploading a single image into a folder!)
Driven entirely by a simple configuration file, LiteDoodle does not require MySQL databases and doesn't use complex admin panels that have a learning curve of their own.
To install LiteDoodle on your site, simply follow these steps.
Although meant to be a simple application, LiteDoodle has a few useful features.
More importantly, these are the features you won't find.
If you have a lot of images/pictures you wish to publish in a simple blog format with a commenting system, use LiteDoodle. If you are looking for a complicated Image Gallery software with advanced categorization, tagging/search features, user management functions and an admin panel setup, this is not for you.
Yes. It is also Free as in Speech. Look at the GPL section below.
No. It's really a simple PHP script (and a little ugly too) so you should be able to easily modify it to suit your needs. This is not meant to be a really complex image gallery script. There are plenty of good image gallery scripts out there, so you should use one of those if you need those layers of complexity.
It's my belief that using a MySQL database adds too much complexity to simple applications and small websites. Yes, sure, when you're developing a highly interactive Content Management System with multiple user levels, complex admin panels and such, you cannot do without a database system of some kind. But for a simple blog application such as this, it's not really necessary at all.
At present none are planned. However if there are some major security issues, I will address them.
Just upload a new image into your "comics" folder. Make sure the file's modification date/time is the current date/time. Otherwise it might get sorted as an older entry. To delete entries, simply delete an existing image (and optionally its corresponding comments file/description file.
Create a new file with the name of the image file (example if the image is my-first-toon.png, create a my-first-toon.png.desc ) in the comics folder and put your description there. It will automatically add the text below the image. You can use HTML if you like.
If you want to title your image "A Sample Toon" name your image as follows a-sample-toon.jpg (or gif or png). The dashes will get converted to spaces and the individual words are capitalized automatically.
Edit the config.php and look for the line
define (COMMENTS_ENABLED, TRUE)
define (COMMENTS_ENABLED, FALSE)
This is currently not possible.
Comments for images, for instance a.png or a.jpg are stored in files named a.png.txt or a.jpg.txt created inside the comments folder. Edit this file to edit/delete individual comments for a particular entry. Delete the entire file if you want to delete all the comments.
Very simple. Just copy the about.php file template and create another one with your own name (example, artwork.php ). Then just modify its contents to suit your needs. You can edit everything between the PHP lines
include ('header.php');
include ('footer.php');
To change the title of your custom page, just look for this line:
$page_title = "About - " . SITE_TITLE;
Very simple. Edit the style.css file in your favourite programming editor and modify the attributes. A CSS tutorial is beyond the scope of this documentation, however ;-)
If you're a really advanced user and need more customization, you can directly edit the index.php and archives.php file (and also any of the custom PHP files you've created) but this is not recommended.
If you've got any more questions on usage, just e-mail them to me at v dot harishankar at gmail. The answer will be added to the next version of this FAQ.
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses
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