From a5a7c5033fff28cfa69f1950116efc464d2acadc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Robin Millette Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 21:36:11 +0000 Subject: Added PEAR Services/oEmbed and its dependencies for multimedia integration. --- README | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++---------------- 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) (limited to 'README') diff --git a/README b/README index 0c605151b..9a2dfb757 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -26,16 +26,16 @@ instant messenger programs (GTalk/Jabber), and specially-designed desktop clients that support the Twitter API. Laconica supports an open standard called OpenMicroBlogging -(http://openmicroblogging.org/) that lets users on different Web sites + that lets users on different Web sites or in different companies subscribe to each others' notices. It enables a distributed social network spread all across the Web. Laconica was originally developed for the Open Software Service, -Identi.ca (http://identi.ca/). It is shared with you in hope that you +Identi.ca . It is shared with you in hope that you too make an Open Software Service available to your users. To learn -more, please see the Open Software Service Definition 1.0: +more, please see the Open Software Service Definition 1.1: - http://www.openknowledge.org/ossd + http://www.opendefinition.org/ossd License ======= @@ -182,6 +182,10 @@ and the URLs are listed here for your convenience. version may render your Laconica site unable to send or receive XMPP messages. - Facebook library. Used for the Facebook application. +- PEAR Services_oEmbed. Used for some multimedia integration. +- PEAR HTTP_Request is an oEmbed dependency. +- PEAR Validat is an oEmbed dependency.e +- PEAR Net_URL is an oEmbed dependency.2 A design goal of Laconica is that the basic Web functionality should work on even the most restrictive commercial hosting services. @@ -404,7 +408,7 @@ config.php, and access to the Laconica database from the mail server. XMPP ---- -XMPP (eXtended Message and Presence Protocol, http://xmpp.org/) is the +XMPP (eXtended Message and Presence Protocol, ) is the instant-messenger protocol that drives Jabber and GTalk IM. You can distribute messages via XMPP using the system below; however, you need to run the XMPP incoming daemon to allow incoming messages as @@ -537,7 +541,7 @@ Sample cron job: Sitemaps -------- -Sitemap files (http://sitemaps.org/) are a very nice way of telling +Sitemap files are a very nice way of telling search engines and other interested bots what's available on your site and what's changed recently. You can generate sitemap files for your Laconica instance. @@ -558,7 +562,7 @@ Laconica instance. like './sitemapindex.xml'. sitemap-directory is the directory where you want the sitemaps stored, like './sitemaps/' (make sure the dir exists). URL-prefix-for-sitemaps is the full URL for the sitemap dir, - typically something like 'http://example.net/mublog/sitemaps/'. + typically something like . You can use several methods for submitting your sitemap index to search engines to get your site indexed. One is to add a line like the @@ -612,7 +616,7 @@ modification to use the new output format. Translation ----------- -Translations in Laconica use the gettext system (http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/). +Translations in Laconica use the gettext system . Theoretically, you can add your own sub-directory to the locale/ subdirectory to add a new language to your system. You'll need to compile the ".po" files into ".mo" files, however. @@ -627,7 +631,7 @@ Backups There is no built-in system for doing backups in Laconica. You can make backups of a working Laconica system by backing up the database and -the Web directory. To backup the database use mysqldump (http://ur1.ca/7xo) +the Web directory. To backup the database use mysqldump and to backup the Web directory, try tar. Private @@ -819,7 +823,7 @@ db -- This section is a reference to the configuration options for -DB_DataObject (see http://ur1.ca/7xp). The ones that you may want to +DB_DataObject (see ). The ones that you may want to set are listed below for clarity. database: a DSN (Data Source Name) for your Laconica database. This is @@ -919,7 +923,7 @@ server: If set, defines another server where avatars are stored in the the client to speed up page loading, either with another virtual server or with an NFS or SAMBA share. Clients typically only make 2 connections to a single server at a - time (http://ur1.ca/6ih), so this can parallelize the job. + time , so this can parallelize the job. Defaults to null. public @@ -1000,7 +1004,7 @@ memcached --------- You can get a significant boost in performance by caching some -database data in memcached (http://www.danga.com/memcached/). +database data in memcached . enabled: Set to true to enable. Default false. server: a string with the hostname of the memcached server. Can also @@ -1011,7 +1015,7 @@ sphinx You can get a significant boost in performance using Sphinx Search instead of your database server to search for users and notices. -(http://sphinxsearch.com/). +. enabled: Set to true to enable. Default false. server: a string with the hostname of the sphinx server. @@ -1024,7 +1028,7 @@ A catch-all for integration with other systems. source: The name to use for the source of posts to Twitter. Defaults to 'laconica', but if you request your own source name from - Twitter (http://twitter.com/help/request_source), you can use + Twitter , you can use that here instead. Status updates on Twitter will then have links to your site. @@ -1101,7 +1105,7 @@ Unstable version If you're adventurous or impatient, you may want to install the development version of Laconica. To get it, use the git version -control tool (http://git-scm.com/) like so: +control tool like so: git clone http://laconi.ca/software/laconica.git @@ -1114,7 +1118,7 @@ There are several ways to get more information about Laconica. * There is a mailing list for Laconica developers and admins at http://mail.laconi.ca/mailman/listinfo/laconica-dev -* The #laconica IRC channel on freenode.net (http://www.freenode.net/). +* The #laconica IRC channel on freenode.net . * The Laconica wiki, http://laconi.ca/trac/ Feedback -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf