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CLI 2.3.20070412-svn347

CLI 2.3.20070412-svn347

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Command-Line Interface.

Author: Rod McFarland

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Tags: 1 column, Black, Fluid width, Left sidebar, No images, Options page, Right sidebar, Widget ready

Downloads: 1,839

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  1. Sorry folks, looks like it doesn’t play nice with the demo system — trust me, it’s pretty kickass though. Take a chance on the download, or watch this space for a demo blog (requires PHP > 4.3.11, which my current server doesn’t have).

    Comment by otwr — February 21, 23:56

  2. Once again… awesome theme like the first one. So, what has changed from version 1.0?

    Comment by Garry Conn — February 22, 0:16

  3. Wow, eleven downloads already and not even a working demo! Kind of funny — I can’t really even point you guys at one, since I’ve only got it to work on my home system so far and I’m not prepared to take 20K hits on my cable connection. I’m working on a live demo, but it’ll take some sweet talking to the systems guys at work (Surprise — I’m not actually a systems guy).

    Anyway: CLI 2 is a complete rewrite. CLI 1 was “AJAX-ey”, CLI2 is real AJAX — it uses XML to transfer information from server to client. This allows for such things as tab-completion and context-sensitive interaction. Bash-type control keys are supported (^A, ^E, ^C, ^L). To work around the browser’s snarfing of some control-key combinations, there is a “sticky keys” approach for CTRL and ALT.

    There is paging (long screens will pause with a “–MORE–” prompt).

    There is a “filesystem” with subdirectories for each blog author and category, navigable with “cd”, “pwd” and “ls”. There are command switches, so “ls -R” works. “Help” takes an argument, so you can say “help command” to get help on a particular command.

    Support for custom commands is improved, just drop your code into usr/bin.

    For the SE people: The theme will allow search engine indexing (CLI 1 made heavy use of Javascript links). CLI 2 provides a subtle <A> link to a list of all articles.

    There is a control panel, with some convenient presets for C64, VIC 20, ZX81, VT, Amber, and Paperwhite displays; or for the owner to create their own colour schemes.

    Image processing is much improved and respects the colour scheme. A new command is provided for resetting the image cache from the command line.

    That’s about all I can think of at the moment, but I’m sure I’ve left a lot out. It’s been a bit of a labour of love. Probably enhancing it any more will be akin to actually implementing the Bourne shell in PHP (rather than just simulating it).

    If you have CLI 1, I totally recommend upgrading. There were a few amateurish mistakes in CLI 1 that have been fixed in CLI 2.

    Version-wise, it was developed with PHP 5.1.6, MySQL 5.0.24, Apache 2.0.55, and WordPress 2.1 / 2.1.1. I’m pretty sure there’s some wiggle room on most of that, but there is some kind of funkiness about object references that’s making the filesystem not work on at least PHP 4.3.11. It also works on WP-MU 1.0. Also you need ImageMagick if you want the groovy image processing. Good luck if you want to run it on a Windows server (but since this theme is a love letter to UNIX-like systems, that would be some kind of a crime).

    Enjoy!

    Comment by otwr — February 22, 1:26

  4. OK, the demo is up at http://rod.elinc.ca/. It looks like PHP 5 is a necessity. With careful pummeling, I might be convinced to down-tech the code to work with PHP 4, but I’m lazy. As an alternative, anyone is welcome to submit patches to the wordpress-cli project at http://code.google.com/p/wordpress-cli.

    Comment by otwr — February 22, 5:47

  5. … and it’s totally broken in IE. I shouldn’t care, but sadly most people insist on using that steaming pile. Excuse me, move along, nothing to see here. Back in a few days.

    Comment by otwr — February 22, 17:29

  6. OK, now I’m in a slightly better mood. The demo is at least not erroring out immediately.

    Latest fixes: IE7 is now working, and the filesystem has been rewritten to function in PHP 4.

    The demo lets you know what it looks like, at least. There may be some WP version issue going on with this site, as the theme isn’t finding some basic functions like get_categories() and wp_get_current_user(), so pretty much all of the filesystem is nonfunctional here (you can still use f, n, p, and l). It does work on at least WP 2.1 and WPMU 1.0. Trust me. On older versions, it might not.

    Comment by otwr — February 23, 6:46

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  8. don’t work!

    Comment by reik — February 23, 18:27

  9. Bonehead, read the comments. The demo here doesn’t work. I know that.

    Comment by otwr — February 23, 18:58

  10. Fixed!

    Comment by otwr — February 23, 20:48

  11. I can’t comment on your blog (using GUI or CLI theme).

    But, you continue to rock.

    Key capture seems flakey (in Safari) on your copy here, but is solid on the Theme Viewer demo. Also, up-arrow recalls the second-to-last command.

    Comment by Hans — February 24, 3:12

  12. Grr, Hans. OK, I fixed that too, although the reason you couldn’t comment on my GUI blog was unrelated (screwing around with my other theme). Dare I say “fixed” again?

    Key capture… yeah, it’s not perfect (it used to be flat-out horrible). I’m starting to think it’s a limitation of Gecko browsers. Ironically IE7 seems to work the best of anything I’ve tested on so far.

    You sure about up-arrow?

    Comment by otwr — February 24, 4:18

  13. “Stale or malformed server response” on the second command, after pressing return.
    Any idea?

    Comment by Alfred — February 25, 9:16

  14. Alfred: not really. A couple people have noticed this though. I’ve just uploaded a “fix” so the message won’t show.

    Comment by otwr — February 25, 23:19

  15. Thanks! now works great, even on sourceforge (Pretty limited configuration)

    Comment by Alfred — February 26, 0:04

  16. Version 2.1:

    -better keystroke handling
    -social bookmarking links
    -numerous backward-compatibility fixes for WP 2.0.x and PHP 4
    -comment system fixed (?)
    -I’m giving it a 5

    Comment by otwr — March 1, 20:40

  1. New upload: better ‘ls’ output; fixed searching in PHP 5.2.

    Comment by otwr — March 5, 23:06

  2. Hi!

    Really good job

    But comment doesn’t work

    Comment by Junkfood — March 5, 23:44

  3. guest@wordpress-testsite:/categories/Uncategorized$ c

    Leave a comment on “Page 2″ (Ctrl-c cancels)

    Name: guest

    Email: foo@bar.com

    Web page: http://blah

    Your comment has been accepted.
    guest@wordpress-testsite:/categories/Uncategorized$

    And… how doesn’t that work?

    Comment by otwr — March 5, 23:52

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    Comment by sado44 — March 6, 6:50

  5. Re-hi

    try this :
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    Comment by Junkfood — March 6, 11:36

  6. I mean, some troubles with free.fr

    regards

    Comment by Junkfood — March 6, 11:39

  7. OK: you need to have sessions enabled on your server for basically any of this theme to work. Most servers do, some rare servers don’t. Free.fr seems to be one of them. Sorry…

    Comment by otwr — March 6, 22:27

  8. Updated:

    -word wrapping in comments
    -workaround for sessions-disabled servers

    Comment by otwr — March 7, 19:15

  9. Updated, 2.1.1
    -Widgets-ready
    –Implies sidebars. You can have none, left, or right.

    Comment by otwr — March 8, 22:16

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    Comment by xytsun — March 9, 2:40

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  12. OMG this is amazing! The Unix geek in me is in orgasmic ecstasy, and the Ma
    Mac freak in me is loving that it doesn’t work on IE. ;-)

    I’m not sure how usable it would be outside of certain geek circles — but I still love the hell out of it!

    Comment by Billifer — March 12, 5:07

  13. great theme. i added

    –

    del.icio.us

    –
    to the command-links.inc.php do add my cached del.icio.us to the output of the links command.

    incredible theme. love it.

    Comment by patrick — March 17, 17:55

  14. Note: the cutting-edge version is at http://code.google.com/p/wordpress-cli/. This version here is only updated occasionally.

    Comment by otwr — March 17, 18:06

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  4. I love the idea behind this theme and installed 1.0, had it working, then realised version 2.0 was out.

    Reinstalled 2.0 but it gave the error - no stylesheet found - so itwouldn’t even show up in the presentation panel. I added a stylesheet and it then showed and could be activated but front page didn’t give me anything but the title/header and the tagline below. No prompt showing.

    I have PHP 5.0 working but not Apache 2.0 - would that cause the problem?

    As it is I will have to go back to 1.0 but would love to get 2.0 working if possible. Any help would be great :)

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  10. Geez! I’m trying to download this theme, but apparently the .zip file has nonthing inside! Plez help!
    One more thing…I have a free wordpress blog…is it possible to use this theme on it? (Yes, I’m a newbie…)

    Comment by Pingo — May 6, 20:49

  11. @pingo: the best way is to download from http://code.google.com/p/wordpress-cli . This site has been having major issues lately, not to say anything bad about the maintainers… probably a popularity thing. The spam (see above) seems to be getting in more now too.

    Also, I don’t know how WP.com works with regard to themes. I suspect they only give you a selection of themes to choose from. CLI is kind of “special” in that it could need some tweaks to the server for it to run. I haven’t heard of anyone using it on WP.com; probably there’s some sort of who-do-you-know type procedure for getting your theme in the selection which I don’t have the time for… but good luck anyhow, there are some good cheap hosting solutions out there if you want to try managing your own.

    Comment by Rod McFarland — May 6, 23:40

  12. Thanks for the quick response!
    I guess I’ll give it a try on WPress, but just one. If it doesn’t work, a typical host may do OK.
    Thanks again!

    Comment by Pingo Wellman — May 7, 20:30

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