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A custom PHP blog engine built from scratch during my early learning days.
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hblog (Halit's Blog) is one of the first real software projects I built. I wrote it in 2008 while I was learning #php and #mysql, and it is where I went from writing small scripts to building a whole system.
It is a custom #cms with a modular layout and its own admin panel. There was no framework under it, so I wrote every part by hand. That included a basic security layer to filter input and block the common web attacks of the time: #SQLI, #LFI, #RFI, and #XSS.
It does nothing clever by modern standards. It was a rite of passage: a working blog engine I built by hand to learn how the web actually works.
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