Archive for October, 2008

Free PDF Chapter: PHP5 CMS Framework Development

Thursday, October 16th, 2008

PHP5 CMS Book
Hi,

The people at Packt Publishing just sent me a free sample chapter (in PDF format) of their latest PHP book (PHP5 CMS Framework Development) for me to pass on to you guys.

I haven’t had a chance to read the book, so I can’t comment on it. If any of you have, please feel free to post a comment.

The PDF:

PHP5 CMS Framework Development – Chapter 6 Access Control.

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PHP5 CMS Framework Development

This book guides you through the design and implementation decisions necessary to create a working architecture for a PHP5-based content management system. Each of the major areas and decision points are reviewed and discussed. Code examples, which take advantage of PHP5’s object oriented nature, are provided and explained. They serve as a means of illustrating the detailed development issues created by a CMS. In areas where the code is too voluminous to be reproduced in detail, the design principles are explained along with some critical pieces of code. A basic knowledge of PHP is assumed.

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How to Build a Content Management System

Sunday, October 5th, 2008

OK, I just tricked you! This article is not going to teach you how to build a content management system with PHP from scratch.

Why not?

… Because building a content management system from scratch is (probably) a really dumb idea!! Now that I come to think about it, building any of the most commonly used software from scratch, is kinda stupid.

Things you should not build from scratch:

  • Content Management Systems
  • Blog Software
  • Forums
  • Directory scripts

The Top 3 Rules in Programming

The real estate business has a famous set of rules – the top three rules in fact:

  1. Location
  2. Location
  3. Location

The idea behind this rule, is to stress how important location is to a piece of property. In software development (programming), we have a similar set of key rules:

  1. Reuse
  2. Reuse
  3. Reuse

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