Project mblog is the current name of the blogging engine upon which this site is built. It’s a PHP5 engine built on top of the Zend Framework and largely following the standards and conventions of the Zend Framework as much as possible.

At the moment mblog is in it’s infancy, but I already have a short-term road map planned for it. It’s mostly modeled after Wordpress in both form and function.

Version 0.1 (18th April 2008)

Initial release. Includes the following features:

• Generic page system that supports both static content pages and dated entries (blog posts).
• System for retrieving pages by permalink and by date.
• Comment system with facility for moderating comments.
• Page tagging that can accommodate a category/folder metaphor.
• Dynamic RSS 2.0 support for blog posts.
• Simple to use Theme system that includes a well designed API that exposes the functionality of the engine without complication and a dynamic CSS system for parsing CSS through PHP. The theme system is configured with a simple XML format that allows a theme creator to develop custom themes the way they want to.

Version 0.2 (planned for 18th May 2008)

Will include the following:

• Support for Pingback 1.0 to encourage integration with other blogs and the blogosphere in general.
• Page search functionality powered by Zend_Search_Lucene.
• Basic support for the MetaBlog API.
• Better Archive view support.