phpub2twtxt

A php interface for publishing microblogposts to your selfhosted twtxt.txt

Setup and use

1. Upload the files to you webserver via ftp

   • index.html - the UI for the app
   • config.php - the backend that writes to you txt file
   • twtxt.txt

2. Edit config.php

   • add the location of you twtxt.txt file
   • you can place the file in and other folder that the files like "../twtxt.txt" to get it in the root of your URL
   • default: twtxt.txt

3. Navigate to www.yourdomain.net/phpub2twtxt/index.php in you web browser and start microblogging.

4. Tell the world to check out you awesome micro blog at www.yourdomain.net/twtxt.txt

5. If you want/need to edit or delete you posts then you need to log in via ftp and just edit your text file.

WARNING!

There is no build-in access control, so whoever know the URL of where you uploade these files will have the power to post as you to your twtxt.txt-file!!!!

Use of this software is totally at one's own risk!!!

Issues

• Security / login

  • [ ] using access restriction to the folder via cPanel
  • [ ] integrat it into yellow cms
  • [ ] using some (other) .htaccess or .htpasswd magic

• Missing line break depending on how the file was left the last time

  • [x] add the line break as the first thing
  • [ ] check for line breaks at EOF before writing

Ideas

• Combine into just one .php file insted of two (UI and backend)

• Find a better name, such as

  • phpost
  • picopub
  • picopost
  • twtpub
  • nanopub

• Make a gif like: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gabrieldejesus/register-with-txt/master/web-preview.gif

• Integrate with a nice render of twtxt

  • https://github.com/hxii/picoblog
  • https://github.com/schulle4u/yellow-extensions-schulle4u/tree/master/ticker
  • https://github.com/Zegnat/site-notxte
  • https://github.com/my5t3ry/twi

Meta

Code based on register-with-txt by Gabriel de Jesus and bits of php to make it write just one line of twtxt compliant data at a time.

Distributed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for more information.