I built this to run ianlandsman.com over a weekend :) It may not work for you. I'm posting it up in case anyone else may find it useful. It might also be useful to those interested in working with the PHP Laravel framework.
Drop the Kudos files into your website folder. Optimally you'll want to make the "public" folder the document root and keep the other folders outside the document root.
rename kudos-example.php to kudos.php
Edit kudos.php to set your name and intro.
Setup a cron to call this command every minute:
* * * * * php artisan Kudos:publish
If you want to use this with Dropbox you can also set the content folder path to the Dropbox folder you want to use. Note the content folder should match the one that's currently in the root which includes the folders:
- drafts
- pages
- publish
- published
Note, the storage/* (all), /content/publish, /content/published folders needs to be writable
You should name your articles/pages as URL slugs. So an article named "How to Eat" would be How-To-Eat.markdown
Inside the file use Markdown and/or HTML
You can keep articles you're working on in the content/drafts folder. You can preview it anytime by going in your browser to /drafts/article-slug
When you're ready to publish simply put the article in the content/publish folder. When the publishing task runs it will move it to the published folder and date stamp it.
- Make sure you upload the .htaccess file in /public to your web server. If not using apache or you dont' want clean URL's then you'll need to add index.php back in for the setting in /application/config/application.php (index setting)
- Make sure the follwoing folders are writable: /storage/* (all), /content/publish, /content/published
Kudos caches every URL for 10 minutes. If you need to clear the cache manually you can use:
php artisan Kudos:clear_cache
Currently Kudos doesn't handle media. I'd recommend just using public dropbox folder as a simple solution.