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Hi - Textpattern contributor & server grease monkey here. Happy to answer any questions as best I can! Further reading: https://github.com/textpattern/ https

Hi - Textpattern contributor & server grease monkey here. Happy to answer any questions as best I can! Further reading: https://github.com/textpattern/ https://github.com/textpattern/ https://textpattern.com https://textpattern.com https://docs.textpattern.com https://docs.textpattern.com

alberth 3y ago
Would you mind open sourcing the Forum board? I love it (and think it’s based on the defunct FluxBB) https://forum.textpattern.com/ https://forum.textpattern.com/
- petecooper 3y ago
  Done!: https://github.com/textpattern/textpattern-forum https://github.com/textpattern/textpattern-forum
  - alberth 3y ago
    Amazing! Thanks so much.
ihateolives 3y ago
What's with the insistence of running it off of just MySQL? Textpattern being small and lean would IMHO be prime candidate for SQLite. I used to use txp for my personal blog and couple of client sites back in 200x and have still soft spot for it. Every now and then I take a look but decide not to try it out because I do not have MySQL in my stack and I honestly can't be bothered to set it up just for txp. Any chance it'll going to change?
- e12e 3y ago
  It's from before PDO was a thing, I believe. They have their own "abstraction" on top of mysqli - I'm not sure about the return values, but might be possible to switch in PDO? https://github.com/textpattern/textpattern/blob/ef91076b7199d133423911c9f01674fdcce67e67/textpattern/lib/txplib_db.php https://github.com/textpattern/textpattern/blob/ef91076b7199...
- petecooper 3y ago
  >What's with the insistence of running it off of just MySQL? I think the most honest answer here is that it's planned but not scheduled. There's an open issue to update Textpattern to PDO: https://github.com/textpattern/textpattern/issues/345 https://github.com/textpattern/textpattern/issues/345 …which will open up a whole new world of possibilities. The Textpattern dev team & user base is pretty small, and the user base is largely patient, so Textpattern can sometimes fall into a trap of being 'good enough for now' and go for extended periods of time with few commits. What tends to happen is a release is scheduled, takes place, and then the plans for the next release are more forefront in our minds. The most recent release was nearly two years ago, which is a long time in Textpattern terms, but I'm confident we can get Textpattern 4.9 into the release pipeline this winter. More on that here: https://github.com/textpattern/textpattern/issues/1879 https://github.com/textpattern/textpattern/issues/1879

alberth 3y ago

Would you mind open sourcing the Forum board? I love it (and think it’s based on the defunct FluxBB) https://forum.textpattern.com/ https://forum.textpattern.com/

petecooper 3y ago
Done!: https://github.com/textpattern/textpattern-forum https://github.com/textpattern/textpattern-forum
- alberth 3y ago
  Amazing! Thanks so much.

ihateolives 3y ago

What's with the insistence of running it off of just MySQL? Textpattern being small and lean would IMHO be prime candidate for SQLite. I used to use txp for my personal blog and couple of client sites back in 200x and have still soft spot for it. Every now and then I take a look but decide not to try it out because I do not have MySQL in my stack and I honestly can't be bothered to set it up just for txp. Any chance it'll going to change?

e12e 3y ago
It's from before PDO was a thing, I believe. They have their own "abstraction" on top of mysqli - I'm not sure about the return values, but might be possible to switch in PDO? https://github.com/textpattern/textpattern/blob/ef91076b7199d133423911c9f01674fdcce67e67/textpattern/lib/txplib_db.php https://github.com/textpattern/textpattern/blob/ef91076b7199...
petecooper 3y ago
>What's with the insistence of running it off of just MySQL? I think the most honest answer here is that it's planned but not scheduled. There's an open issue to update Textpattern to PDO: https://github.com/textpattern/textpattern/issues/345 https://github.com/textpattern/textpattern/issues/345 …which will open up a whole new world of possibilities. The Textpattern dev team & user base is pretty small, and the user base is largely patient, so Textpattern can sometimes fall into a trap of being 'good enough for now' and go for extended periods of time with few commits. What tends to happen is a release is scheduled, takes place, and then the plans for the next release are more forefront in our minds. The most recent release was nearly two years ago, which is a long time in Textpattern terms, but I'm confident we can get Textpattern 4.9 into the release pipeline this winter. More on that here: https://github.com/textpattern/textpattern/issues/1879 https://github.com/textpattern/textpattern/issues/1879