HashOver 2.0 (development)
HashOver is a PHP comment system intended as a replacement for services like
Disqus. HashOver is free and open source software, under the
GNU Affero General Public License.
HashOver adds a "comment section" to any website, by placing a few simple lines
of JavaScript or PHP to the source code of any webpage. HashOver is a
self-hosted system and allows completely anonymous comments to be posted, the
only required information is the comment itself.
Notable Features
General, Customization, Advanced
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Threaded replies, Multiple themes, Allows limited use of HTML
Comment editing & deletion, Customizable HTML, Multiple comment sorting methods
Likes & Dislikes, Comment layout template, Spam filtering
Popular comments section, Customizable CSS, Notification emails
Multiple languages, File format plugins, Comment RSS feeds
Automatic URL links, Authentication plugins, Referrer checking
Administration, Comment permalinks
Avatar icons, IP address blocking
Display remote images, Required modules/compilation
Although most PHP installations include everything HashOver requires by default,
depending on your setup you may need to install some modules/extensions and/or
ensure PHP was compiled with support for the following modules.
Feature, Module name(s), Debian/Ubuntu package name(s)
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Date and Time, date, part of PHP core
Document Object Model, dom, part of PHP core
Regular Expressions, pcre, part of PHP core
User information encryption, openssl, part of PHP core
Multi-byte character support, mbstring, php-mbstring
Internationalisation, intl, php-intl
XML data storage format support, xml, libxml, SimpleXML, php-xml
JSON data storage format support, json, php-json
The following modules are optional
Feature, Module name(s), Debian/Ubuntu package name(s)
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PHP Data Objects, PDO, php-sqlite3, php-mysql
SQLite file format support, pdo_sqlite, sqlite3, php-sqlite3
Checking for required modules
On UNIX (GNU, BSD, etc) you may list installed modules with this command:
php -m
On Windows the command to list installed modules is:
php.exe -m
Important differences from version 1.0
-
hashover.phpis no longer used in JavaScript tags, the file
/hashover/comments.phpis used instead.So change:
<script type="text/javascript" src="/hashover.php"></script>To:
<script type="text/javascript" src="/hashover/comments.php"></script>
Important recent changes to version 2.0
-
The
pagesdirectory is nowcomments/threads, this change will cause
existing comments to not appear until you move the directories underpages
into the newcomments/threadsdirectory. -
All JSON config files have been moved to the new
configdirectory, you will
need to move the fileshashover/blocklist.jsonand
hashover/ignored-queries.jsoninto the newconfigdirectory. If these
files do not exist, you don't need to do anything as these config files are
completely optional. -
The previously removed
secrets.phpfile has returned. The required setup
information, namely the notification e-mail address, encryption key, and the
admin username and password are now stored in thissecrets.phpfile located
at/hashover/backend/classes/secrets.php.You will need to move the values of the public properties
$notificationEmail,$encryptionKey,$adminName, and$adminPasswordin
thesettings.phpfile into the new protected properties in thesecrets.php
file, and remove these properties fromsettings.phpor replace the
settings.phpfile entirely, as its source code is publicly viewable, whereas
the source code ofsecrets.phpis not.
HashOver on Windows
Windows will be officially supported by HashOver 2.0, there should not be any
major issues with using HashOver on Windows. However, HashOver is primarily
developed on and for UNIX operating systems, which are the primary operating
systems used by the majority of web servers. If you have any issues with
HashOver on Windows, please report them.
Information and Documentation
Forthcoming.