voitto / structal.blog

Structal Blog

Structal Blog is a simple real-time example app taken from Spine.js (www.spinejs.com). It extends Spine by adding a poll method that checks the server for changes. When the app is open in two windows, changes in one window can be seen in the other.

Structal Blog utilizes the Structal toolset that includes the ORM library Mullet.php and the client-side MVC library Spine.js. Installation is a snap and only requires inputting a few database settings. Soon this step won't be necessary either as a database will automatically be generated for a user upon download.

Requirements

A Windows or Unix-based Web server with PHP version 5.2 or greater A SQL database (MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite) or noSQL database (MongoDB, CouchDB).

Installing Structal Blog

1. Download Structal Blog from http://github.com/voitto/structal.blog
2. Place the folder onto the web server that is to display Structal Blog.
3. Enter the database settings for the web server into index.php. An example configuration is as follows:

$config = array( "", // host name ('localhost' | '' | IP | name) 'brian', // db user name 'dbPass', // db user password 'Blog', // db name 5432, // port number (3306/mysql | 5432/pgsql | 443/ssl) 'pgsql' // db type (mysql | pgsql | couchdb | mongodb | sqlite | remote) );

4. Run the app! When the app is open in two windows, a change seen in one window should be seen in the other.

Bugs

Any help listing bugs at Structal Blog's Issues Page is greatly appreciated!

More Info

http://structal.org #structal channel on Freenode IRC

structal.blog's Issues

Only 15 Database Entries

Currently this app only holds about 15 database entries before the database ceases to record further entries and the real-time action stops working. This can be remedied by going into Mullet.php and searching for the number 15. It can be found on line 602, which should read "$limit = 15;". This can be increased or decreased to the user's liking.