Exyht (Express your thought)

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Exyht is a fully open source & free blogging software. This is a very light weight and easy to use one page web App.

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Built with

• EmberJS 1.8.1
• Laravel 4.2.*
• Twitter Bootstrap 3.2.0

Facebook Login

Exyht uses Facebook login system. This makes Exyht more User friendly and helps to stop spamming.

Feature

Exyht has Read only Mode feature & though it is mainly a JavaScript based App, it's SEO friendly & works also if Javascript is disabled.

Exyht support Infinite Scrolling. It also has an awesome Installer.

You can customize the Blog template's Blog name & sub-title, font family, colors, add links, Logo, Image gallery and much more quite easily.

You'll also love the text editor, use markdown (YouTube support), emoji with textcomplete feature. Type your comment while browsing from one topic to another & you'll experience faster topic load Since this is a one page web App.

Exyht uses backend Laravel Api with Ember at front end.

Mobile & Tablet friendly

Text Editor won't interrupt while reading or changing topic.

Customize Colors & Fonts.

Admin Panel

Installer

Install Exyht

Installation of Exyht is very easy. Please carefully follow the below steps:

• Download Exyht zip from github and extract it in a folder blog(recommended) in public_html or htdocs.

• Save your username & password for mysql in app/config/database.php.

• In app/views/layout/main.blade.php place your Facebook Login App ID.

     appId      : 'your-app-id',
  

• Now run Exyht installer by browsing http://yourdomain/blog/installer & follow the instructions. It will take not more than 30 seconds.

• Congrates, installation is complete. Now go to Admin panel by browsing http://yourdomain/blog/admin-page.

• Your blog path http://yourdomain/blog/.

Requirements

• PHP 5.4+
• MySQL 5+
• Apache 2+

Exyht's browser requirements are also high since it's mainly a Javascript based App.

• Google chrome 23+
• Mozilla Firefox 17+
• Internet Explorer 10+
• Safari 5+
• Android 4.1+
• IOS 6+
• Windows 8+

For Developers

A Grunt file is already built. If you want to use build tools like Grunt, Gulp, etc. you need to install Node npm.

Adding Google Analytics Tracking

Here in Ember guide, you'll get how to add analytics tracking to Ember App.

Security

You must generate a new encryption key for your laravel to secure the encryption. Your Laravel encryption key lies in app/config/app.php file. To change it, do not remove it. Just run the Laravel Artisan command from the folder where Exyht App lies.

php artisan key:generate

Security issue is taken seriously. For backend, necessary Laravel security steps've been taken. For user input sanitization HtmlPurifier, Google caja html sanitizer, markdown sanitizer are used.

Besides You can Block IP, Manage flagged comment, etc very easily from your admin page.

Contribute

Exyht is 100% free & open source. So contribute in Exyht and make it great.

Report Bugs or issues/ Pull request

Bugs always exist. Report any bug or issue in https://github.com/Exyht/exyht/issues and Pull request in https://github.com/Exyht/exyht/pulls.

LICENSE

Licensed under the GNU General Public License Version 2.0 (or later). You may not use this software if you do not agree with the License.