Practical Internet Marketing Advice for 2006!

39|FireBlog: Don’t Touch!

March 20th, 2006 by Marcel Ursprung

http://fireblog.berlios.de

FireBlog CMS was developed by Alex Smith in PHP/MySQL. Version 0.3 was released in June 2005, quickly followed by version 1.0. Since then not much more has been done with the system. Supposedly there is a new CMS called Snowflake that will replace FireBlog, this based on a recent posting by Alex on TuxTalk.org.

“…This new version will be based on Snowflake, the successor to FireBlog, which is currently powering this site.”

FireBlog has a few basic features such as; a smiley parser, news posts, comments, links manager and basic user permissions. Some features that were planned but never released are; categories, a forum, RSS feeds, and a theme manager. I expect we will see these features in the new Snowflake CMS system when it is released.

I don’t recommend using this system in it’s current state, unless you are a fluent PHP/MySQL programmer. A minor change to a theme setting (a simple text value) can bring the whole system crashing down with no way to recover, unless you can change the database manually. Since FireBlog is open source it might come in useful as a basic framework in a future blogware project.

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