FarCry Blog

Overview

NearCry Blog is a complete standalone solution for blogging that is built from the ground up in the FarCry Core web application framework.

Installation

NearCry Blog Release Candidate

NearCry Blog is currently in BETA. It is not recommended for production environments – just yet. Well unless of course you're the type of guy who likes to live dangerously on the bleeding edge. For support please use the farcry-beta forum.

Subversion Repo

Just check this baby out. Full distro:

http://svn1.cvsdude.com/modius/farcry/distro/nearcry/trunk

If you want to do it one repo at a time... You will need to check out the following repositories:

core: http://svn1.cvsdude.com/modius/farcry/core/trunk
./projects/farcryblog: http://svn1.cvsdude.com/modius/farcry/projects/farcryblog/trunk (the skeleton or base project for the installer)
./plugins/farcryblog: http://svn1.cvsdude.com/modius/farcry/plugins/farcryblog/trunk (the actual blogging plugin)

Make sure you checkout the ./projects/farcryblog under your local ./skeleton folder. When you complete the install the installer will create a new project for you. Its under projects in the repo because we seem to be trying to confuse everyone – but there is method to our madness.

If you want to try out a blog theme, take a look at:

skinskittlish: http://skinskittlish.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/

Add the theme to your ./plugins directory and update your project's farcryConstructor.cfm

<cfset THIS.plugins = "farcryblog,skinskittlish" />

Themes are installed in the ./plugins directory of your installation. Themes are essentially plugins that only have graphical elements, although they may also have additional functionality.

Blog Installer

Once you have the code bases in place, run the installer as per normal and create a new FarCry application. Be sure to select the FarCry Blog skeleton.

Issue Tracking

Please raise issue in the following database: http://bugs.farcrycms.org/browse/FCB

Mockups

If you would like to propose a change to the system please feel free to use the Mockups feature of this WIKI. Create a new page for each new mockup; see the example below for how this is done.

A Sample Blog Mockup — A sample mockup page for blog changes. Use this as a template for your own pages.
Blog Post Admin — Wizard for blog post admin.
Skin Changer — Users should be able to switch between individual skins loaded for the application.
Webtop Layout — The default webtop config needs to be tailored to the specific needs of bloggers, removing any fluff that might get in the way.

Copy & Paste Into a New Page

h2. Overview

{excerpt}A sample mockup page for blog changes.  Use this as a template for your own pages.{excerpt}

h2. My Mockup

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Quick Read Me

Quick readme...
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Release Candidate 14-August-2008

You will need a blank database and a ColdFusion datasource configured and ready to go.
Drop the ./farcry directory into your webroot and browse to http://yourdomain/farcry

Enjoy!

Geoff Bowers
Daemonite

Latest build can always be found here:
http://www.farcrycore.org/builds/

Temporary home of project:
http://farcry.jira.com/wiki/display/FCPLUG/FarCry+Blog