Recommend a flat-file blog engine?

Question

Has anyone had success with a flat-file blog engine?

I'm trying to arrange a very basic, bare bones blog setup on an intranet site. Unfortunately, the usual solutions rely on MySQL, which is not available on this server. In fact, no database is available. I may be able to do SQLlite, but would prefer a flat-file solution.

DokuWiki has done well as a wiki on this server and it even has a blog plugin. However, I'd prefer to use a "real" blog, if anyone can suggest good options.

I'm mostly interested in PHP, but other suggestions are certainly welcome.

Answer 1

dasBlog uses an XML file store. It's .NET though, not PHP.

These people also seem to have a port of Wordpress that uses flat files instead of a database. It is PHP.

Answer 2

I'd recommend you to try Sqlite, it's faster than parsing and creating flat file, and easier to use, too.

Answer 3

Blogger has a feature called "FTP Publishing" that allows you to export your blog as flat files to an FTP server. Is Blogger an option?

Answer 4

A while ago I used FlatPress which work's only with files and still has a quite good performance. There are also a lot of themes, plugins and widget stuff. (Not as many as for WordPress, but still enough for the most cases.)

Answer 5

Give Simple PHP Blog a try. http://sourceforge.net/projects/sphpblog

Answer 6

I think writing your own blog engine is a great idea. And the best part is that you don't have to bother with someone else's list of required features. You code it to your needs and leave the rest out. Then add more features as you need them.

Answer 7

am surprised no one mentioned http://pebble.sourceforge.net/. This needs Servlet Container

Answer 8

Modest looks nice, but I'm not sure if it's available yet.

http://sigusr2.net/2008/Sep/08/announcing-modest.html

Answer 9

Blosxom (perl-based) and PyBlosxom (a Python-based clone) both work with flat-files.

Answer 10

PivotX

• Multiple Weblogs
• Multiple Authors
• Built-in commenting & moderation
• Built-in spam protection
• Easy to install templates (themes)
• Pages
• MySQL Database
• Flat Files Database
• SEO friendly
• Self hosted

Answer 11

http://code.google.com/p/goolog/

What is Goolog? Goolog is a blogging engine written in PHP. Goolog is designed to be utilized on free webhost providers which do not provide access to databases such as MySQL, MS-SQL, PostgreSQL, etc.

Who might need Goolog? Goolog is designed to be utilized on free webhost providers since these do not always provide access to a database. It involves no database considerations on part of the webmaster since the database that powers Goolog is spontaneously generated.