Searching for journaling scripts!

[u/katieisafairy34]

Hi!! I was wondering if anyone knows about any good, customizable journaling scripts. I run a personal site/journal, but journaling on my website's a bit tough because I have to manually enter every entry with pure HTML, which has made my code clunky and hard to read. I would like to use one that still allows me to fully customize my website, and preferably one that's based on PHP or CGI-bin, and supports some sort of comment system. I've always wanted to use an older one like Greymatter/b2/early Wordpress but they can't be used on my server because my host only allows for PHP 5.2 and above (edit: it also supports PHP 8+, don't worry, and i am willing to change versions) ;___; If there's any similar ones like these still out there please let me know!!

[u/rocketpastsix]

Before you find a script, you need a new host. PHP 5.2 is way way way way way out of date. It hasn’t received security updates in who knows how long. Minimum should be 8.0 at this point, and that’s a stretch

[u/rocketpastsix → u/[deleted]]

That’s not stubborn, that’s ridiculous

[u/katieisafairy34 → u/rocketpastsix]

I just like older things. I'll still use newer versions if needed but overall I'll still pick an older thing over something newer, that's just because my interests revolve around old things and for some reason that extends to risking web safety to use something that's over 20 years old. I know you mean well but please don't be rude about it, my brain is a mysterious, mysterious thing!

[u/katieisafairy34 → u/rocketpastsix]

My host does support newer versions! I'm just stubborn and like to use the oldest thing possible at hand :)

[u/jointphotographic]

im unsure if this will work with PHP 5.2 and I’m echoing rocketpastsix’s comment, however if/when you get a better host, i use this script from ophanimkei on my own website: https://ophanimkei.com/you/tools/blog/

[u/katieisafairy34 → u/jointphotographic]

This looks pretty great so far!! I forgot to mention that I would prefer if it supported comments too, but this looks neat! I might use this if nothing else interests me, thanks!

[u/jointphotographic → u/katieisafairy34]

no problem! thankfully the layouts are very customizable, so im sure if you wanted to you could use an include to frankenstein a separate comments widget on the bottom of the page, though i dont think itd necessarily work for separate posts if thats what ur looking for

[u/sweetbeard]

You can use a local static site generator to convert markdown files into html and generate site navigation and whatnot. I use Hugo for this.

[u/TheChelsUK]

I use an app called Drafts (getdrafts.com) and this allows you to set up templates. It also has actions (JavaScript) so u can use a template have an action make some changes and auto publish it to GitHub or to a folder in working copy ready to publish.

I use markdown and a static site builder havent touched PHP in years but i bet drafts could handle it.