Create a tutorial website

decmatt · 7 May 2006 at 21:29

Hi

After the exams I am planning on making a MYSQL and PHP website like good-tutorials.com I have made several PHP websites but am just wodnering with this site as it is a bit unusual to what I have done before. Am I thinking the website is simpler to create then it is in reality?

Thanks

Beansprout · 7 May 2006 at 22:45

It's not too difficult if you break it down:

> A system to post articles
> A system to rate articles
> A search system
> Possibly a comment system

The administration side shouldn't be too hard either.

There's nothing too advanced in it really - generally PHP/MySQL apps on a small scale are very simple

decmatt · 8 May 2006 at 00:02

Would you suggest doing it in that order, because the hardest thing I find is where to start?

Sherbs · 8 May 2006 at 00:08

I'd look at the database structure at first, plan on what pages you need. Then start working.

RobH · 8 May 2006 at 17:35

This might not be of much help but I was one of the creators of a tutorial website for the C&C Renegade game. It's stil online at http://renhelp.laeubi-soft.de

It's not exactly a professional website but it did the job when we used it a lot. Could offer some inspiration, one of the interesting parts was that the submitted tutorials were parsed and fomratted automatically in html, doesn't work flawlessly but it did the job.