About Esqlanelapse

Esqlanelapse is an accessible, standards compliant, fast and easy-to-use content management system for weblogs & webnews.

Esqlanelapse is simple to install and to administer. Since its very first betas, it has had a graphical web-based installer which doesn't require you to edit any PHP files locally or manually inject database queries.

This means that Esqlanelapse is not yet-another-weblog-system focused on get more and more features. Esqlanelapse is simple. It also cares about web standards: Esqlanelapse outputs valid XHTML and has an integrated XHTML validator for both posts & comments.

Esqlanelapse should be also very fast. It uses no complex SQL queries and it uses static caches to prevent high database load.

It has the following features:

• Support for pingbacks, trackbacks & comments.
• Support for multiple users which can write posts.
• Support for drafts which can be shared between users.
• Access log with Referers and User-Agents.
• Emoticons (optional) with customizable map.
• Manual comment/trackback/pingback editing and deleting.
• Ability to turn off comments on individual posts.
• XHTML & CSS standards compliant for weblog pages.
• Ability to ping to weblog directories.
• Support for categories & date classification.
• RSS syndication.
• RSS syndication for individual comments' discussions.
• Support for image-based entry titles (with shadows and colors) without sacrificing accessibility.
• Ability to upload files & images to the server without using FTP.
• Customizable CSS stylesheets & headers.
• Multilingual support.
• Much more...

Esqlanelapse can be customizable editing a header/footer HTML file and CSS files. A higher level of customization might require some PHP knowledge.

Server Requirements

• PHP 4.2 or higher (woks fine with PHP 5) with MySQL and PCRE modules enabled.
• MySQL 4.x or 5.0 database.
• 1.5 MB of free disk storage space.
• Both UNIX- and Windows-based servers are supported, although UNIX is preferred.

Language Support

The following language packs are supplied with Esqlanelapse:

• English (default)
• Spanish
• Portuguese
• Catalan

To select the language to use in your Esqlanelapse installation:

1. Open the directory lang/ in your Esqlanelapse root directory.
2. Remove the DEFAULT.php file.
3. Duplicate the desired language (in example ES.php) to the name DEFAULT.php
4. Upload everything.

Acknowledgments

Thanks a lot to ebs interactieve communicatie for the new XHTML+CSS design for Esqlanelapse.

Download

Latest Release: Esqlanelapse 2.6.1, June 2007

Download Esqlanelapse 2.6.1

How To Install

1. Unpack the distribution.
2. Upload everything to your host (in example using FTP).
3. Change the permissions to the files upload/, motor/RC.php, motor/data to the maximum (allow read & write to propietary, group & world), or equivalently to mode 777. This is usually done using a contextual menu on graphical FTP clients such as FileZilla.
4. Launch a web browser and run the Esqlanelapse directory from your web host.
5. Click on run Esqlanelapse installer to install a fresh copy or Esqlanelapse updater to update from previous versions.
6. Follow the instructions.

Project Resources

• Project page on SourceForge

Misc Stuff

Many thanks to SourceForge for hosting this project and homepage:

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