News

Received the July '03 issue of Macworld magazine and wanted to let folks know that it features a 5 page article (starting on page 77) comparing "the top 7 Weblog systems", which includes GeekLog. It doesn't look like they've posted the latest edition's reviews on the site, so you might want to sneak a peak at your local newsstand.

The article is pretty thorough and compares Blogger Pro, GeekLog 1.3.7, iBlog 1.2.5, LiveJournal, Movable Type 2.63, pMachine Pro 2.2.1, and Radio 8.0.

It highlights GeekLog's strengths and weaknesses compared to the other systems. GL makes it to the top 4 and is recommended for its power and collaborative features (although they note that it does require more technical skill to set up and operate). As a whole I thought it was fairly accurate and well-balanced. Kudos to the GL team!

Hey folks. A number of my sites got hit on Friday with 'affix ownz u' - someone was able to replace my index.php with this text. It seems this is a vulnerability in PHP, so I upgraded.

Anyway, the new PHP seems secure, but breaks geeklog. My plugins broke but I was able to fix them mostly with some quick coding. But now parts of base GL are broken. Basically anything that reads vars from the query string directly without the following GL functions :

COM_setArgNames(array('VarName1','VarName2'));
$VarName1 = COM_getArgument('VarName1');
$VarName2 = COM_getArgument('VarName2');

I found that staticpages works fine since it uses this, but the story editor does not, nor does 'article.php'. I can easily fix these myself but before I do, I wanted to know if fixes are planned. Also, what other parts of GL are affected?

thanks,
-Alan

Well, it's been a long time coming, but I've managed to put together a pretty solid 1.0 release of the axonz geeklog - red theme. To find out what the theme looks like, and to download the theme-pack:

Visit the site.

You don't need to be registered to download the theme.