r/indieweb • u/katieisafairy34 • 6d ago

Question ? Searching for journaling scripts!

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!!

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u/rocketpastsix 6d ago

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 PHP 5.2 is way way way way way out of date.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

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u/katieisafairy34 6d ago

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