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Before migrating over to MySQL as the officially “blessed” database engine, Known previously used MongoDB.

The support for this was provided by the PECL extension ‘mongo’, which while supported in PHP5.4, was later deprecated and completely removed in PHP 7. This left early adopters, like myself, no upgrade path to PHP 7.

The end goal I believe, is to build a bullet proof import/export function into Known and get everyone over onto MySql, however in order to give us a little more runway, I took the opportunity to rewrite the mongo database driver to use the newer (and supported) MongoDB driver.

This pull request completely replaces the existing mongo code with a backwards compatible version built on the newer MongoDB driver, handling both database and GridFS.

Of course, while it does pass unit tests, this is a big change, so I encourage existing mongo users to kick it about for a bit, and also be sure to take a full backup of your existing stuff before rolling out this change.

Let me know your thoughts!

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The other week The Register wrote an article, which talked about the Indieweb, and Webmentions in particular.

The article covered a bunch of things, but highlighted the potential spam issue with webmention, which I’ve been meaning to do something about in Known for a while. Since Known was mentioned right at the end of the article, I figured I should probably pull my finger out.

So, while the community build a better way of handling spammy comments and webmentions (e.g. Vouch, or similar graph based filter), I put together a very quick Akismet plugin. Obviously this is centralisation / single point of failure, but it’s a quick fix that’ll hopefully stop the worst of the problems while we build something better.

Usage

Install in the normal way, and activate with your wordpress API key.

Now, all new annotations (including comments and webmentions) will be passed through akismet before being posted. Note, the entire thing requires you to be running a version of Known with the annotation/save event hook added by this pull request.

Enjoy.

» Visit the project on Github...

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I had a little bit of time over the weekend (actually, that’s a complete lie, I had no time, I was just procrastinating), so I dusted off and fixed up some old code I was working on but never finished.

So, here you are, a quick plugin which adds lightbox modal display for Photos. Currently it just shows the image, but if you’ve applied this patch (which hopefully will be merged soon), you’ll also see titles and description.

The library makes use of Ashley White’s Bootstrap 3 javascript lightbox library, which is distributed under the MIT licence.

» Visit the project on Github...