Added PEAR Services/oEmbed and its dependencies for multimedia integration.

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@ -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
<http://openmicroblogging.org/> 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 <http://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, <http://xmpp.org/>) 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 <http://sitemaps.org/> 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 <http://example.net/mublog/sitemaps/>.
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 <http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/>.
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 <http://ur1.ca/7xo>
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 <http://ur1.ca/7xp>). 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 <http://ur1.ca/6ih>, 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 <http://www.danga.com/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/).
<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 <http://twitter.com/help/request_source>, 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 <http://git-scm.com/> 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 <http://www.freenode.net/>.
* The Laconica wiki, http://laconi.ca/trac/
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