tlongren / zebra

Sick of Hacker News, Reddit too mainstream and Digg too lame? Meet Zebra an open source and stripped back news submission website like Hacker News so you can create your own independent site. Built on-top of Codeigniter PHP Framework.

Zebra

An open source and stripped back news submission website like Hacker News so you can create your own independent site. Built on-top of Codeigniter PHP Framework. If you are sick of the current state of Hacker News, the mainstream and sometimes hard to participate in community of Reddit or the lame news website Digg (yes, even the rebrand) launch your own, style it and profit $$$

(okay, so maybe we lied about the profit part.)

Zebra is a social news website application in a box only without the pretty wrapping paper. User accounts (including profiles), secure hashing and authentication of user info, anti-spam functionality including community moderation features like Stack Overflow and a simple website even your grandma could understand the inner-workings of.

At present Zebra is very basic. Simple login/registration, simple profiles, simple voting and lots of missing pieces. At present it works but has no installer and is missing a lot of functionality.

You can read about it here: http://ilikekillnerds.com/2012/08/introducing-zebra-an-open-source-social-news-application/ - updates will be posted as often as possible in relation to the progress of Zebra on my blog.

Templating & Theming Zebra

All template files are located in the root directory themes folder. Currently there is only one theme called, 'Zebra' which contains all of the theme assets and the view files in TPL format utilising Smarty templating to make things easier to style and work with. The Smarty functionality uses another library I maintain called CI Smarty - https://github.com/Vheissu/Ci-Smarty - which allows you to add in Smarty and theme support into your Codeigniter apps.