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The latest theme in the Theme Downloads forum is a clone of Reddit, called Yonda.

What better way to show off Hotaru than with a theme that emulates one of the biggest social bookmarking sites on the net? I must admit I'm very impressed, and happy to see our Up Down Voting plugin getting put to good use!

Although it looks just like Reddit, this theme has been skillfully crafted by hand by Mabujo Web Designs. It turns out that the designer, mabujo, is no stranger ...

Tags: designer, hotaru, mabujo, pligg, reddit, swcms, web designs

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Themes

Three words came to mind when I saw that Pligg had released a module for Stop Forum Spam:

'bout bloody time!

If you don't already know, Stop Forum Spam is a database of spammers which can be checked against automatically when a user attempts to sign up for your site.

Although I haven't used Pligg for over two years, my site is still ever-present on the dozens of "Pligg Lists" that circulate on the net for spammers to post their ads to.

Hotaru has its ...

Tags: pligg, sfs, spam, stopforumspam

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General

The Pligg Importer takes such a long time to import data, that I have time for another blog post!

It turns out that the changes I made to the way user permissions work broke the Pligg Importer, but finding out why took ages to figure out!

The plugin takes an XML file and break it down into objects, but I never thought that assigning a string to an object would then make that string an object!

Here's a string:

PHP Code:

$role = 'admin'; 


Here's an object: ...

Tags: objects, pligg, pligg importer, strings

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Core Development

In the next couple of days, I'll make Hotaru 0.4 available for download, but before I do so, I thought I'd tease you with some of the new additions since 0.3 last week.

Since Hotaru is a plugin-based system, changes to its core files are driven by the needs of plugins, and there are two new plugins, along with some welcome additions to existing ones.

First of all, and most exciting for me, is the Pligg Importer. I succeeded in importing an old JapanSoc database into Hotaru ...

Tags: 0.4, alpha, breadcrumbs, categories, drop-down, edit, gravatar, importer, menu, pligg

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Core Development , Plugins

This one had me slapping my palm to my forehead. At gone 2am, I was thrilled to finish off the first five steps of the Pligg Importer. All that was left to do before bed was give it a full test run, importing my JapanSoc database into the main Hotaru tables...

Step 1 - categories... success!

Step 2 - links... success!

Step 3 - tags... success!

Step 4 - users... "You do not have permission to access this page."

When importing ...

Tags: funny, import, mistake, pligg, pligg importer, stupid

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Plugins